LewRockwell By John Leake
Zero legitimate explanation for how a man with a rifle got onto a roof only 120 meters away from Trump with a clear line of sight.
As I have observed in previous columns, our era in the United States is frequently beset with incidents characterized by a catastrophic loss of competence. Decades of procedural knowledge seem to vanish from one day to the next, leaving sensible people wondering how it could possibly happen.
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump this evening at the the Butler Farm Show Grounds is a perfect example of this bizarre phenomenon. The shooter climbed onto the roofâpurportedly with an AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle â120 meters from Trump on the stage. From this vantage point, he had a clear line of sight for a shot that would have been easy for even a middling marksman. The following aerial photograph shows the shooterâs position relative to Trumps.
As anyone who understands the rudiments of security knows, the FIRST thing you do is secure all rooftops within sniper range. Note in the following video that a counter sniper (with the word POLICE embroidered on the back of his vest) on the roof behind Trump is scoping the would-be assassinâs position.
He appears to see the would-be assassin and start to engage (while flinching) right before the would-be assassinâs shots can be heard. Clearly the counter snipers knew that the rooftop presented a high risk position or they wouldnât have been scoping it.
Why wasnât this buildingâAGR International Inc., a manufacturing plant just north of the Butler Farm show groundâsecured before Trump began speaking? It seems to me that this building would be the first thing a security detail would secure. The green pin on the roof to the east of Trumpâs position marks where the counter snipers are posted. Again, why didnât they just secure the building onto which the shooter climbed? This makes no sense…
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