Trump Derangement Syndrome

Recall her record as DHS boss and president of the University of California, not to mention the Anita Hill hearings.

Department of Homeland Security director Alejandro Mayorkas is assembling a 45-day “independent security review” of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on July 13. For this task Mayorkas selected:

Chief David Mitchell, the former superintendent of Maryland State Police and former Secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Homeland Security for the State of Delaware; Mark Filip, a former federal judge and Deputy Attorney General to President George W. Bush; Ms. Frances Townsend, former Homeland Security Advisor to President George W. Bush; and former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Her stint in that job gives the people cause to wonder.

Text messages, obtained exclusively by The Times, indicate that some law enforcement officers were aware of Thomas Crooks earlier than previously known. And he was aware of them.

Nearly 100 minutes before former President Donald J. Trump took the stage in Butler, Pa., a local countersniper who was part of the broader security detail let his colleagues know his shift was ending.

“Guys I am out. Be safe,” he texted to a group of colleagues at 4:19 p.m. on July 13. He exited the second floor of a warehouse that overlooked the campaign rally site, leaving two other countersnipers behind.

This is starting to look as if it was allowed to happen.

🚨 New footage of Trump assassination reveals that law enforcement SURROUNDED Thomas Crooks with weapons drawn and were clearing people from the area and yet TRUMP was allowed to REMAIN ON-STAGE in clear view of assassin?!?

This is completely criminal:pic.twitter.com/GL11PiRtvA

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 29, 2024

h/t patthedog & Patti Jo

The Atlantic has published an article claiming that former President Donald Trump promised Christian supporters that he will end elections if he takes office in 2025.

The unexpected spotlight on the Manhattan case had the effect of discrediting the entire enterprise in the public mind.

With President Joe Biden having withdrawn from the 2024 presidential campaign, the collapse of the Democrats’ lawfare crusade against the Republican nominee, former president Donald Trump, takes on added significance. Lawfare was not just the plan for making Trump conclusively unelectable; it was the plan for keeping Biden out of the public eye — for maintaining the spotlight on Trump because Democrats have known Biden was declining mentally and physically.

The CEO of the social networking website Gab has revealed posts that he claims may have been written by Donald Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Crooks.

Andrew Torba said on Wednesday that an unnamed law enforcement agency informed him that Crooks may have posted pro-Biden messages on Gab, a platform known for its alt-right users and conspiratorial content.

During the next few months, as Donald Trump’s poll numbers grow, many Americans, me included, will be on edge as we pray that he lives long enough to win the election in November.

Everybody knows that the “lone gunman” is dead, but the controversy surrounding the theory that Thomas Matthew Crooks was a “lone gunman” is not.

Many feel entirely justified to continue exploring whether others had to be involved in this operation for it to unfold in the way it did.

Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, disclosed on Wednesday that the gunman who tried to assassinate former President Donald J. Trump appeared to have used a drone for about 11 minutes to survey the site of the shooting in the hours before Mr. Trump took the stage.

“It appears that around 3:50 p.m., 4:00, on the day of the shooting, that the shooter was flying the drone around the area,” Mr. Wray said during his testimony, noting that it was “not over the stage, but about 200 yards, give or take, away from that.”

Shocking new footage shows local cops and a Secret Service agent standing over the dead body of would-be Donald Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks as they appeared to confirm the 20-year sniper was identified as a suspicious person before he opened fire.

The bodycam video, released by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, shows Crooks’ lifeless body as a pool of blood trails along the roof where he wounded Trump and killed a hero firefighter earlier this month during a Pennsylvania rally.

JUST IN: Bodycam footage released by Senator Chuck Grassley from the Trump Pennsylvania rally on July 13th.

The video was obtained from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit.

In the footage, the men were discussing how they had noticed Thomas Crooks earlier before the… pic.twitter.com/KQErF69xk5

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 23, 2024

The would-be assassin who opened fire at Donald J. Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pa., on July 13 was able to get a clear shot at the former president, as countersniper teams nearby failed to see him in time to thwart the shooting.

The New York Times used drone photography to build a 3-D model and recreate the lines of sight for both the gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, and three teams of countersnipers — two federal and one local. The analysis shows that Mr. Crooks, 20, who appears to have flown a drone to survey the site the morning of the rally, exploited one of the few blind spots within a rifle’s range of
Mr. Trump, raising questions about serious lapses in security planning for the event.

Kimberly A. Cheatle, the Secret Service director, resigned on Tuesday, a day after declining to answer lawmakers’ questions about sightlines and security breakdowns at a contentious hearing on Capitol Hill.