[LI] Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle claimed no one placed security on the roof where Thomas Crooks positioned himself to shoot former President Donald Trump because of a sloped roof.
But the questions regarding the line of sight expand further than the lack of security on the roof.
Olivier Knox at U.S. News & World Report has covered numerous presidential rallies and campaigns.
Trump Assassination Attempt: Line of Sight Questions Go Beyond a Sloped Roof
"Agents would have conducted a site ’sweep’ that included assessing where a sniper might position themselves."
Posted by Mary Chastain Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 07:00pm 30 Comments
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Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle claimed no one placed security on the roof where Thomas Crooks positioned himself to shoot former President Donald Trump because of a sloped roof.
But the questions regarding the line of sight expand further than the lack of security on the roof.
Olivier Knox at U.S. News & World Report has covered numerous presidential rallies and campaigns.
Knox’s latest article, with Aneeta Mathur-Ashton, detailed the steps the Secret Service would take to secure the former president, especially from potential sniper positions.
Eliminating sniper positions became a priority after JFK’s assassination in 1963:
The Secret Service has well-practiced protocols for securing a rally by a president or major presidential candidate, involving counterassault commandos and sniper teams in addition to the protective detail like the one that swarmed Trump at the podium and covered him with their bodies until word came that the shooter was dead.
Agents would have conducted a site "sweep" that included assessing where a sniper might position themselves. It’s been one of the most well-known threats to presidential security since President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination in Dallas.
These steps include (emphasis mine):
Posting a Secret Service agent or local law enforcement officer on a rooftop.
Assigning a counter-sniper team to monitor a rooftop.
Putting up something to make it impossible to see the stage from a rooftop (a screen, tents — in the past, some campaign rallies even used stacked shipping containers). The armored presidential limousine, nicknamed "The Beast," regularly pulls into a tent outside events.
Frequent patrols.
Look at the photos that combat veteran Sean Parnell dropped, which expose the lack of objects guarding Trump’s stage.
Ignore the community note on the second tweet. Sean pointed out that security did not place anything to block that line of sight.
LOOK. Here is another picture. Taken at 6:06pm. I am to the left of the USSS agent, in the front row behind Trump.
LOOK AT THIS.
When shots rang out I immediately thought building, or water tower. But you DO NOT have to be a tactical genius to see why.
Can you see now how close... pic.twitter.com/mSzWTHyLSC
— Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellUSA) July 17, 2024
Everyone needs to see this photo to appreciate the tactical negligence that occurred during the assassination attempt on DJT. This photo was taken just minutes before the first shots were fired. DJT is oriented towards the shooter at this point.
Look in the upper left of this... pic.twitter.com/llrXNfYYTb
— Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellUSA) July 16, 2024
One red truck. Nothing else.
Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) insisted every political event for presidents or Congressional candidates required "ALL windows, balconies, parking garages, and roofs with line of sight to the stage are covered and cleared."
The Secret Service did not sweep the shed.
We also learned that Crooks visited the rally site days before Trump’s rally.
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The clueless SOB should have been on a jet to the site the minute she learned of the attempt. Her statement about the roof was just too much. The ONLY honorable thing she could have possibly done would have been to tender her resignation within 24 hours.
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How must those agents who swarmed over Trump to protect him feel, knowing that their colleagues didn't shoot the sniper before he started shooting? They put their lives on the line and now they must know they were at risk due to failures/conspiracies of their colleagues and their boss. How can they continue in that kind of work environment?
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[Regnum] The Russian FSB has published declassified archives that talk about the crimes of the military commandant of the Belarusian Mogilev, Major General Gottfried von Erdmannsdorff. The Nazi walked through Moscow 80 years ago, leading a huge column of captured Germans. He is responsible for hundreds of killed and burned Russian soldiers.
On July 17, 1944, von Erdmannsdorff was paraded along the main streets of Moscow along with 19 other Wehrmacht generals. This event in history was called the "Parade of the Defeated", or Operation "Big Waltz".
The interrogation protocol of von Erdmannsdorff, in which he gives detailed testimony about the war against the USSR and his personal participation in war crimes, has now become available.
The German admitted that he gave orders to shoot captured Red Army commissars and arrest communists. From June 22 to September 1941, one commissar was shot and about 600 communists were arrested. They were all shot as well.
"On my orders, Soviet citizens were arrested, sent to camps, and forcibly sent to hard labor in Germany. I personally approved 120-125 death sentences handed down by the secret field police to Soviet citizens who had connections with the partisans. All of them were shot, and their bodies were burned," the general's confession is recorded in the protocols.
At the end of June 1944, during the offensive operation "Bagration", the city of Mogilev was liberated, which the Nazis intended to turn into an impregnable fortress.
In the battles for Mogilev, the Germans lost more than 6,000 soldiers and officers, 2,000 were taken prisoner. Among the prisoners were two generals: the military commandant of Mogilev von Erdmansdorff with his staff and the commander of the 12th Infantry Division, Lieutenant General Rudolf Bamler.
When the investigator asked von Erdmannsdorff how he viewed Hitler’s aggression against the USSR, he replied: “as a great crime.”
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the collected evidence confirms that the fascists, led by Adolf Hitler, planned to exterminate the Soviet people. This was stated by the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin.
The Russian FSB has published a declassified archive containing testimony from the former chief of staff of the NSDAP state propaganda department, Werner Wächter, a subordinate of Joseph Goebbels, about how the Nazis concealed preparations for an attack on the Soviet Union.
The FSB Directorate in the Smolensk Region has declassified archival documents on crimes committed by the Nazis in the region during the Great Patriotic War, including materials on the execution of Poles and the falsification of the Katyn case by the Third Reich's special services.
[Simplicius] The Trump “event” has come and gone, and we’re really no closer to knowing precisely what happened, as details have only become more convoluted, with endless conspiracy theories floated by click- and ragebait-happy pundits. Of course, that includes the media itself, which floated the most nonsensical conspiracy theory of all: that Iran may have been responsible for Trump’s assassination attempt.
But I don’t intend to get into the nitty gritty as it’s pointless playing detective over an event whose chief perpetrators are known to all with a modicum of logical ability.
The more interesting aspect is how things have returned to relative normality after such a momentous, potentially epoch-shifting circumstance. Democrats have done their best to re-stabilize the political narrative back to status quo and demonstrate that Trump’s election chances have not been overly boosted. It’s quite difficult to tell these days, as the epistemic divergence has become so vast between the two sides that each literally operates in the haze of a separate reality. Democrat surveys show Biden still ahead, while other polls show a catastrophic situation for Biden’s re-election chances.
There is a deep sense of normalcy bias in America, with the masses seemingly impervious to any sense of doom or dread. But if you examine the ‘worst case scenarios’ over the course of the past year, almost every one was hit in turn. For instance, at one point it seemed inconceivable that a recent President could be impeached, then charged or jailed, yet it was done to Trump. Now, many thought it an unlikely fantasy that they would try to take him out the kinetic way, and we’ve now seen that happen too.
Large chunk snipped, including an off-topic paragraph about Israel more suited to Der Stürmer.
But even if the latest developments have ensured that Trump should win the election, his near-assassination has taught us one very important lesson: that the Right will not “revolt” or wage some kind of dramatic, Hollywood-style civil war any time soon, even if further aggravations of a terminal sort occur, such as the total theft of the election later this year.
Many on the Right now brag that not a single fire was lit, nor a soul harmed in the wake of an open hit attempt on their candidate. However, some still cling to fantasies that were the shooter successful, an explosive civil war would have kicked off. But given the total normalcy and calm even in the face of near-disaster, it’s become evident that the majority of normal Americans will not “rise up” any time soon. Whether it’s a level of first world comfort that has yet to be totally eroded, or mass propagandizing, or the simple decades of docility imposed upon them by the establishment—it’s hard to know for sure. But it’s clear no one is going to “rise up” in the way some have imagined any time soon.
It has led me to contemplate what a potential civil war could actually look like if it did kick off, and what I’ve concluded is that it would have to be at the behest of strong State governments initiating some major anti-federal actions. Texas, for instance, could begin some of the anti-fed moves Governor Abbott promised long ago, leading to the call up of citizens into the National Guard or even declaring the call up of various state militias. Most people don’t know that the National Guard is actually State controlled, with the governor as its commander-in-chief. It only becomes ‘Federalized’ under an express order from the President for a specific Federal mission, which in such dire circumstances could be ignored by the State, thus spurring a conflict. Ron Desantis, in fact, has already threatened to do this, among other things.
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It has led me to contemplate what a potential civil war could actually look like if it did kick off...
...while I ignore the fundamental fact that the 'militia' is every able bodied male citizen. That there are over 300 million guns and heaven knows how much ammo is out there. The Feds presence is only where they have boots on the ground and no further. That when the Fed loses its legitimacy it lacks the manpower to cover all electrical lines, pipelines, rail lines, bridges, etc. That deep blue urban areas do not create their own energy or their own food nor the manufacture the materials to get the aforementioned infrastructure back on line. Nearly all the 'enforcement' of the Fed live in the communities not in bases or compounds.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets.
Kimberly Cheatle, director of the US Secret Service, answered the question of why there were no agents on the roof from where the shots were fired at Trump.
But she answered in such a way that it would be better if she did not do it. After such an answer, she should either resign for negligence and incompetence, or go to jail for complicity in the attempt to kill the future US president.
A view from Russia.
According to her, the decision to leave the roof unguarded was deliberate (!!!), since placing (anti)snipers on a sloping roof was (Karl!!!) unsafe.
Let me remind you that the place where the would-be killer was located is a low-pitched roof of 4.76 degrees (I took the data from American sources, but I measured it from a photo and personally, you can trust the data - the ratio was 18 length by 1.1 height, this is 3.5 degrees, but you need to make a small footnote on the angular projection). The building itself is about 4 meters high, and the slope is very wide - 10-12 meters, imagine two 5-6 meter long rooms.
It turns out that the agents whose job it was to ensure the security perimeter did not climb onto the roof because it is sloping. They could slip, fall and get a sprained ankle, or even a torn ligament. It was an unacceptable risk to be on a roof where even kids can feel comfortable. And they urgently need to prepare an ADDITIONAL elite unit of the Super Secret Service, capable of overcoming such types of terrain :)))
And under this pretext that it is unsafe for an agent to be on this practically children's playground, they leave a free firing position? As a result, the shooter, apparently, climbed onto the roof completely unhindered and ended up about 120 meters from the stage, where the ex-president was right in his line of fire.
Ironically, the cover snipers who were behind Trump were located on a sloping roof of 14.04 degrees. I.e. one of two things comes out:
- either a roof three times steeper is not sloping enough
- or the memory of all sorts of Kimberly Cheatle is like that of fish...
Therefore, it is clear that the explanations of the Director of the Secret Service are designed for dumb hamsters. She is trying to say at least something. Adequate people understand that such accidents simply do not happen. And that the position and approach to it for the shooter were cleared intentionally. Who cleared it? You should ask Kimberly Cheatle who gave the orders. Because there was obvious complicity.
By the way, former US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland - three days before the assassination attempt on Trump said : "
"I don't think Donald Trump will become president. Putin, of course, is counting on it, but I think Putin is in for an unpleasant surprise."
Now the surprise she knew and expected is clear. But she was disappointed. But she knew!
P.S.
Yesterday, near the hall where the Republican National Convention with Trump is being held for the second day in Milwaukee, another pale, bright-eyed 21-year-old young man was detained with a bag containing an illegal AK47 with magazines.
The police noticed a suspicious man in a ski mask with a large tactical backpack, just a couple of blocks from the convention.
The police statement on Tuesday says: "A search of the person revealed that the suspect was concealing an AK-47 pistol, a loaded magazine, and a "Scream" mask in his backpack. The suspect did not have a legal permit to carry a concealed weapon in the state of Wisconsin or any other state. His intent remains unclear."
#4
It isn't just the Russians. Everybody in the whole wide world is watching and wondering just how evil the Biden administration is. It's too easy, too convenient for someone like Cheatle to claim incompetence and it's too hard for everybody else to believe.
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Kinda like a chronic tequila hangover.
Without the fun.
"There is no specific treatment for the condition."
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