Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

Teufel

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So apparently the building the would-be assassin fired from the rooftop of had three police snipers inside it who had seen him on the ground being suspicious multiple times casing out the building, coming back with a rangefinder, a backpack, etc. So took his picture and sent it up the chain of command but no one intercepted him and he was able to climb onto the roof.

Cops tried to go up after him, but he pointed a rifle their way and they fell. He then opened fire at Trump.

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A sniper from a local tactical team deployed to assist the U.S. Secret Service at former President Donald Trump's rally on Saturday took a picture of the gunman and saw him looking through a rangefinder minutes before he tried to assassinate the former president, a local law enforcement officer with direct knowledge of the events told CBS News.

The sniper was one of three snipers, members of local tactical teams, who were stationed inside the building that the shooter used in the attack, the officer said. The operations plan had them stationed inside, looking out windows toward the rally, scanning the crowd. The details about the three snipers were first reported by the local news outlet BeaverCountian.com.

One sniper inside spotted the gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, outside and looking up at the roof, observing the building and disappearing, according to the officer who spoke to CBS News. The sniper observed Crooks as he returned to the building, sat down and looked at his phone. At that point, one of the local snipers took a picture of Crooks.

Next, the local sniper observed Crooks looking through a rangefinder, an instrument routinely used by marksmen to determine the distance of a target, and he immediately radioed to the command post, according to the local law enforcement officer. The local sniper also attempted to send the photo of the gunman up the chain of command.

The command post, according to multiple law enforcement officials, served as a central hub to streamline communications between U.S. Secret Service and the local officers from nearby state and county police forces. It is unclear if the command post received the alert.

Officials then lost track of Crooks, who disappeared, but soon returned for a third time with a backpack. The local sniper team called for backup — alerting the command post that the gunman had a backpack and was walking toward the back of the building.

By the time other local officers responded to the backup request, the gunman had scaled the building, positioning himself above and behind the local snipers inside the building, according to the officer.

Two other municipal police officers who heard the call for back-up attempted to climb onto the roof. Butler County Sheriff Michael Sloupe told CBS Pittsburgh station KDKA that an armed municipal officer with Butler Township was hoisted by another officer onto the roof of the building where the gunman had taken a position. Crooks focused his rifle towards the officer who ultimately let go, falling off the roof. Moments later, the shooter began firing into the crowd.
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The director of the Secret Service says no one was stationed on the roof because there was a slope and it wasn't safe, even though there was a more significant slope on the roof of the building behind Trump where snipers were stationed and shot the assassin from.

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Embattled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle says she has no plans to resign, even after the stunning revelation that the agency decided not to guard the roof from which Thomas Crooks opened fire on former President Donald Trump because it was too slanted.

“That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof,” she told ABC News in a startling admission.

“And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside,” she told the outlet.

Cheatle admitted the agency knew the building rooftop was a security vulnerability but still opted not to position agents there, leaving it wide open for Crooks to take up an ideal sniper perch with an unobstructed view of Trump on stage.

From the roof, Crooks had a clear line of sight to the GOP nominee with his AR-style semiautomatic rifle, about 130 yards away.
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Picture of the building the assassin fired from vs Trump's stage.

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Not a security expert, but I'd probably lock down roof access to buildings across from Trump with clear lines of sight. This was at a rural fairground, this doesn't seem like a Herculean task.
 
Pocket

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How quickly did they start selling copies of his mugshot? Less than 24 hours, wasn't it?
 
Ungnome

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It's Trump, if he sees a way to make a quick buck off of something, he's gonna do it. Doesn't take long these days to create custom printed shoes.
 
Pocket

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I think CaféPress was doing custom printed Keds 20 years ago.
 
Pale Rider

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...and Hell followed with him.
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FB friend:
Proposed new word: stawful. That's what someone is both stupid AND awful, like when someone thinks that God didn't intervene to stop the Holocaust but did intervene to deflect a bullet away from Donald Trump.
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No, no, no. The people who defend the Jan 6 insurrectionists as "patriots" are not allowed to react to the Trump assassination attempt by piously declaring that political violence is wrong.

PS. It's worth pointing out that we don't know yet whether the shooter's motivation was political. He might have just wanted attention, or perhaps he was a nutjob like John Hinckley Jr.
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wonko the sane?

wonko the sane?

You may test that assumption at your convinience.
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Yes, because THIS is sucking up to dear leader: where as masking DURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC is protecting yourself and others: but you can't protect yourself without your gun.
 
Rhinox

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It's a ******* cult. At this point if anyone denies that, they're a part of it. This is straight up cult behavior, following dear leader.
What a ******* jive show. Jesus Christ.
 
CoffeeHorse

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He definitely rewrote the beginning of this speech. Obviously he had to talk about the assassination attempt, and it was all very somber and probably will get some praise.

It somewhat abruptly morphed into the speech he originally planned on giving.

Memorable moment: he brought out the chart. "Last time I put up that chart I never really got to look at it." He has reached the gallows humor stage.

Forget all the talk about him maybe changing his tune. This is a 2016 speech. He rewrote the beginning and nothing else.

Here's some news. We finally got a genuinely new second term policy proposal. We will build an Iron Dome.

It's over.

I don't know who this singer is, but this Nessun Dorma won't make my top 10.
 
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Pale Rider

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FB friend:
Why is Trump not freaked out after nearly being assassinated? Some people think it's because it was a false-flag operation, but I think there's a better explanation: his brain just doesn't perceive danger, whether it's because of psychopathy or because he's simply a moron.

www.apa.org

Psychopaths Feel Fear But See No Danger

The featured article in this issue of APA Journals Article Spotlight reviewed the available evidence for the potential existence of a relationship between fear and psychopathy in adults.
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