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New bodycam video from Trump assassination attempt shows cops confronting armed Thomas Crooks on roof

Newly released body-cam footage shows the moment a police officer is boosted onto the roof where would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks was perched – and finds himself staring down the gunman’s barrel.

The footage, obtained by Fox News Digital, came from the Butler Township Police officer who climbed onto the roof of AGR International on July 13.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", Trump Derangement Syndrome

Former Secret Service Chief Wanted To Destroy Cocaine Evidence

Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and others in top agency leadership positions wanted to destroy the cocaine discovered in the White House last summer, but the Secret Service Forensics Services Division and the Uniformed Division stood firm and rejected the push to dispose of the evidence, according to three sources in the Secret Service community.

Multiple heated confrontations and disagreements over how best to handle the cocaine ensued after a Secret Services Uniformed Division officer found the bag on July 2, 2023, a quiet Sunday while President Biden and his family were at Camp David in Maryland, the sources said.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Biden Family Sleaze", "Deep State", WTF?

Secret Service Prep Before Trump Shooting Shows It Was a Clown Show

You can use big words and insider acronyms to explain yourselves. Still, the Secret Service oversight of the Butler, Pa., site of Donald Trump’s near-assassination can best be summed up in these three simple words: a clown show. If you hadn’t figured that out by now, it was unwittingly confirmed during a news conference (see below) Friday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", Trump Derangement Syndrome

‘We lost sight of him’: Radio traffic shows failed search for Trump rally shooter

An urgent message crackled over the radio inside the white trailer, a mobile communications hub for local police helping to secure former president Donald Trump’s July 13 rally in Butler, Pa.

“Just an FYI, we had a younger white male, long hair, lurking around the AGR building,” a local countersniper said at 5:42 p.m., according to a time-stamped transcript of encrypted radio communications obtained by The Washington Post. “He was viewed with a range finder sighting the stage. … We lost sight of him.”

Keystone Kops?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", Trump Derangement Syndrome

Majority Blame Secret Service For Trump Assassination Attempt, Few Trust Agency: Poll

A new poll out Thursday found an overwhelming majority of Americans say the Secret Service bears some responsibility for the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump last month.

According to the Associated Press survey, 7 in 10 Americans believe “the Secret Service bears at least a moderate amount of responsibility for the assassination attempt” with 4 in 10 believing the agency “bears a high level of responsibility.”

It went beyond negligent to complicit.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State"

See Where Countersnipers Could Have Stopped the Trump Rally Gunman

Since the shooting, testimonies from law enforcement officials before House and Senate panels have pointed to critical spots near the rally that could have allowed countersnipers to spot the gunman before he fired eight shots, including one that grazed Mr. Trump’s ear.

The gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, managed to climb up on top of an AGR International warehouse, walk across its roof and begin shooting — all while evading countersnipers. There were four locations where countersnipers were stationed near the rally, according to Beaver County planning documents. Law enforcement officials have since testified that higher-elevation positions should have been secured.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", Trump Derangement Syndrome

Snipers Positioned in Way That They Couldn’t See Trump Shooter: Officials

Snipers were positioned in a building near former President Donald Trump’s rally in a way that they could not see Thomas Crooks, the man who fired at Trump, local officials said on July 31, rebutting testimony from the U.S. Secret Service’s acting director.

“Where our people were was the far-right side of the AGR building. Their views in no way could have seen Crooks without pushing their heads outside the window and looking back,” Detective Patrick Young, who heads the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit, told CNN.

“The videos and the exhibits presented to Congress are purely wrong as to what they’d actually seen,” he added.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", Trump Derangement Syndrome

‘I said what everyone was thinking’: the woman who roasted the Secret Service

When Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Representative, turned up at a congressional oversight hearing with the head of the Secret Service a week after Donald Trump was targeted by a sniper at a rally, she expected some answers.

What she got, she tells me when we meet in Manhattan, was obfuscation. Her resulting encounter with Kimberly Cheatle, then director of the Secret Service, so frustrated her that footage of it immediately went viral.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State"

No More Stonewalling on the Assassination Attempt!

Something is very fishy about the lack of information on the Trump Assassination attempt. A man died, others wounded, and the former and future President of the United States was struck by a bullet and escaped death by pure luck.

A kid outsmarted the Secret Service and gets off 7 shots at Trump. That’s not poor performance that’s complicity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", Trump Derangement Syndrome

The Secret Service Was Obviously Going To Be The Next Vehicle Of The Deep State

The since-resigned Secret Service director conceded before House lawmakers Monday that this month’s shooting of former President Donald Trump was the worst agency security failure since President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981.

“On July 13th, we failed,” Kimberly Cheatle said.

But was the assassination attempt a failure because Trump survived? Or was it a failure because he was shot in the first place? It’s easy to blow off a government attempt to kill the former and potential future president as an episode of conspiratorial paranoia, but not so much when one is reminded of the extent to which Trump has remained the Washington regime’s Public Enemy No. 1 since 2015.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State"

Local cops refusing to share info with FBI as agency suffers ‘crisis of confidence’ with DEI hires, damning whistleblower report reveals

As FBI Director Chris Wray performed his usual smarmy stonewalling in Congress Wednesday, a damning report on his $10 billion agency’s “cult of narcissism” was delivered to the House Judiciary Committee by an alliance of retired and active-duty agents and analysts.

The same group gave us the scathing DEI report last year about the FBI’s degraded recruitment standards and coddling of physically unfit, mentally ill, drug-taking or generally useless agents to satisfy diversity requirements at the expense of merit and experience.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion", FBI

Christopher Wray Says FBI Does Not Target Peaceful Pro-Lifers. The Stats Prove Otherwise

FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has historically focused more on “abortion-related violent extremism” than targeting pro-lifers under the unconstitutional Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.

“When it comes to FACE Act enforcement and abortion-related violent extremism, I think one of the things that gets lost — and I appreciate the opportunity to clarify — is that really, since the Dobbs decision, actually more of our abortion-related violent extremism investigations have focused on violence against pro-life facilities, as opposed to other way around,” Wray claimed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State"

How the Secret Service Failed

What disaster science tells us about the Trump assassination attempt

It took only minutes for conspiracy theories to start flooding social media when news broke on July 13 that a sniper had almost assassinated former president Donald Trump. Some conservatives asked whether U.S. Secret Service agents assigned to the Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally were actually plotting Trump’s demise. Left-leaning partisans suspected the shooting was somehow faked to garner sympathy for the candidate. According to the media monitoring site NewsGuard, appearances of the words “inside job” and “staged” surged more than 3,000 percent on the X platform immediately after the shooting.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State"