Here is my immediate response on Saturday July 13, to the assassination attempt. As I warned you all in my recent essay “What Time It is”, about the incarceration of Stephen K Bannon, the attempt on President Trump’s life on Saturday July 13 was sadly predictable, as we are in the period, foreseeable per the historical record in a declining democracy, of the “physical mopping-up of the opposition.”
In general — being careful about libel law — I need to discuss the realities of what days are like in the offices of POTUS (President of the United States) and of FLOTUS (First Lady of the United States).
We all know by now that President Trump’s Secret Service detail left around him gaping vulnerabilities. My husband Brian O’Shea (@brianosheaSPI), who spent a career in military intelligence, in intelligence, and then in private security, including in “close protection,” — indeed, that was how I met him, as he had to secure me and my home, after I had received death threats — examined, at my request, videos of President Trump’s speech in Butler PA on July 13, 2024, assessing the shot that struck Pres Trump’s right ear, and the shots that killed heroic fire chief Corey Comperatore.
Brian identified at least ten major security practice anomalies.
Capping the many anomalies is the statement that Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle made to ABC News, explaining that no Secret Service snipers were placed on the roof of the building from which Crooks allegedly fired, because it had a “sloped roof.” Four days after the assassination attempt, as I write, it’s clear, and not a “conspiracy theory,” that this event was not a simple tragedy — some random disgruntled kid somehow successfully firing at a President, in spite of all the efforts of what are suppose to be the best security forces in the world — but that other forces are at play.
I need to explain some important things about this story, based on my long experience around decision-makers in comparable contexts.
The first is that: at an event such as this, nothing happens by accident.
....But someone made the decision to surround President Trump with tiny female Secret Service agents, at least one of whom cowered behind him while he was being shot at, and who appeared later not to know how to manage her holster.
All this happened when who knows how many tall, strong, experienced Secret Service agents were just 54 minutes away.
Someone made sure to arrange to be short of a third counter-sniper team; someone made sure to fail to secure a building 130 meters away from the speaker. Someone is directing SS director Cheatle to give nonsensical answers (this is itself a message, about impunity). Most chillingly, to me, is that someone directed a guard in military uniform to point his rifle directly at the van with a wounded Pres. Trump in it, before raising it again.
I think all of this is meant, if not to murder, certainly to seek to intimidate Pres. Trump into abandoning the campaign trail.
The Shot Heard 'Round the World
2 comments:
Nothing happens by accident. This is true. But God Almighty protected President Trump 45. Even though some of the secret service were not tall enough to protect him nothing else happened to him. Our days are numbered and we should seek out the Lord and His salvation before departing this earthly kingdom. We don’t know when our number will come up.
Did the secret service fall short of their job to protect former President Trump? Or did all events go exactly as God designed or allowed them to work out?
Biden is not leaving without a bundle of cash and assured immunity from prosecution for him and his family after all he has probably a full portfolio of damning information that could bring down the entire empire.
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