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At least two known assassination attempts on the life of President Donald Trump occurred while campaigning for the 2024 Presidential election. The first, or the J13 assassination attempt occurred in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, while President Donald J. Trump was on stage at a MAGA rally and only minutes into his speech when the shooting began. The second occurred on September 15, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida while President Trump was playing golf on his golf course. In both incidents the Biden Secret Service was found negligent in its duties.
According to initial reports from the Secret Service on the attempt in Pennsylvania, the shooter fired 5 shots before being killed by a Secret Service sniper.[1] However, the Pennsylvania state police testified that they recovered 8 shell casings, indicating that 8 shots were fired by the assassin. The FBI Director Christopher Wray absurdly testified that it may not have been a bullet, but shrapnel, that wounded Trump; two weeks after the fact, the FBI admitted that it was a bullet, obviously.[2]
In Butler, President Trump was injured by a bullet penetrating his right ear, but not his skull. A spectator died and two were seriously injured. Trump himself dropped down as he heard many bullets and was wounded by one, and then was quickly shielded by the Secret Service. As Trump stood up, he was then shielded by agents.[3]
Trump strongly called out to all: 'fight' while pumping his fist several times.[4][5] The crowd chanted: 'USA!'
By only an inch in the path of the bullet that pierced his ear did Trump survive, by the grace of God.[6]
Trump's defiant reaction to the shooting became instantly iconic.[7]
Trump's assassination attempt was condemned by current and former political figures, left and right, the world over. The shooting came just days after President Trump's challenger, Joe Biden, made specific threats to "put Trump in a bullseye". Two days after the failed attempt Donald Trump was re-nominated as the official GOP candidate;[8] the next day Biden announced he may drop out of the race.[9]
The attack marked the first time a sitting or former US president was injured in an unsuccessful assassination attempt since Ronald Reagan was shot in March 1981, over 43 years prior. After Reagan, Trump is the seventh US president to be subject to a successful or unsuccessful assassination attempt, the others being the failed attempt on Theodore Roosevelt, and the succeeded attempts on Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy.
Democrats attempt to remove Secret Service protection
- See also: 2024 Presidential election interference
In April 2024 Democrats introduced a bill in Congress to remove Secret Service protection from President Donald Trump.[11] The bill's chief sponsor was Rep. Bennie Thompson who chaired the J6 witch hunt. Democrats Joyce Beatty, Troy Carter, Yvette Clarke, Steve Cohen, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Jasmine Crockett, Barbara Lee and Frederica Wilson were co-sponsors.[12] Thompson, the bill's sponsor, has been under investigation for destroying government records related to the J6 committee.[13] Thompson's field director shared a post on Facebook saying "I don’t condone violence but please get some shooting lessons so you don’t miss next time ooops that wasn’t me talking."
For months prior to the shooting Trump's protective detail and the officers protecting the president all requested additional help from the Secret Service and were denied by Homeland Security head Alejandro Mayorkas.[14]
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., whose father Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. was assassinated in June 1968 while campaigning for president, has been denied Secret Service protection. Ever since Bobby Jr's father was killed, all presidential candidates have been granted Secret Service protection. As late as July 2024 the Biden regime still refused to allow Secret Service protection for Bobby Jr.[16]
Secret Service director Kim Cheatle, a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) hiree by Joe Biden, was selected for the position by Jill Biden.[17] Cheatle was on the team that evacuated Dick Cheney on 9/11, and was also on Biden's detail when he was Vice President.[18] Biden appointed Cheatle as Director in 2022. Cheatle claimed there was "nothing nefarious" about the deleted Secret Service texts during the J6 protests.[19] With multiple open and obvious security breaches in the assassination attempt on President Trump, Cheatle resisted calls for her resignation.
Radicalization and incitement
The attempt came after years and more so in recent weeks, the left and liberal media have been vilifying President Trump[21] as being supposedly a "danger to democracy." While, immediately in 2016, the ADL protested the Hitler comparison.[22]
The following (not exhaustive) list is after Trump was already in office:
February 1, 2018, Electronic Intifada's rabble-rouser Asa Winstanley describing Trump as Nazi.[23]
In Nov 2020, CNN's Christiane Amanpour was under fire for comparing President Trump dishonesty to Kristallnacht - 'Night of Broken Glass' pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany.[24]
In August 2023 Tucker Carlson commented on the all-pervasive Democrat hate in liberal media: "Begin with criticism, then you go to protest, then you go to impeachment, now you go to indictment, and none of them work. I mean what’s next? You know, graph it out man! We’re speeding toward assassination, obviously. No one will say that, but I don’t know how you can’t reach that conclusion."[25]
On October 23, 2023 RINO collaborator Liz Cheney told Democrat operative Chuck Todd on NBC's Meet the Press, "We will do whatever it takes. As I said, he [Trump] will not be the President of the United States again."[26]
On November 1, 2023, Democrat-supported Lincoln Project[27] co-founder and board member Rick Wilson said on MSNBC: "The donor class can’t just sit back on the sidelines and say oh well, don’t worry, this will all work itself out...They’re still gonna have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump...That’s a fact".[28]
On November 20, 2023 Rep. Dan Goldman, a failed House Impeachment 1.0 prosecutor and apologetic for neo-Nazi stooge said on former Biden regime chief propagandist's MSNBC show, "It is just unquestionable at this point that that man cannot see public office again. He is not only unfit. He is destructive to our democracy,[29] and he has to be eliminated."[30]
On November 30, 2023 anti-Trump neocon Robert Kagan, head of the fake news adjunct to the Ukraine propaganda apparatus, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), wrote an opinion piece in The Washington Post saying, "Will those who balked at resisting Trump when the risk was merely political oblivion suddenly discover their courage when the cost might be the ruin of oneself and one’s family? We are closer to that point today than we have ever been, yet we continue to drift toward dictatorship, still hoping for some intervention that will allow us to escape the consequences of our collective cowardice, our complacent, willful ignorance and, above all, our lack of any deep commitment to liberal democracy."[32]
On Dec 19, 2023, Zeeshan Aleem wrote on MSNBC a piece titled: "Donald Trump has truly earned comparisons to Adolf Hitler".[33]
On Jan 5, 2024, Biden compares 'sick' Trump to Nazis in 2024 campaign launch.[34]
A hot mic caught Journos joking about Trump being assassinated while attending a lawfare hearing in Washington, D.C. in January 2024.[35]
Reported in April 2024: White House staffers refer to Trump as 'Hitler Pig.' [36]
On April 8, 2024: Timothy Ryback in The Los Angeles Times wrote: "Trump turns his trials into a soapbox. Does he know he’s channeling Hitler?"[37] Prompting a reader's response "To the editor: This world has known only one Adolf Hitler."[38]
The June 2024 issue of the liberal New Republic mouthpiece featured a cover photo designed to inflame of President Trump with a Hitler moustache painted on for a cover story entitled American Fascism.[39][40][41] In a tweet explaining the cover the New Republic said "Today we at the New Republic think we can spend this election year in one of two ways: we could spend it debating whether Trump meets the nine or 17 points that define fascism. Or we could spend it saying he's damn close enough and we'd better fight. We unreservedly choose the latter course."[42]
On July 1, 2024, Jennifer Bendery (a critic of Center for Security Policy) published a piece on HuffPost:[43] "Supreme Court Gives Joe Biden The Legal OK To Assassinate Donald Trump."
On July 2, 2024 Nancy Pelosi appeared on MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell:
| ANDREA MITCHELL: At this point, there's no one who knows the donor community better than you. You are a legendary fundraiser. There's no one who knows the convention rules better than you. I have to ask you, what are you hearing from the large network of people about whether [Biden] is up to it?
NANCY PELOSI: I hear mixed. Some people are saying because Donald Trump is such an authoritarian and autocrat, we have to win this election. This is not a normal election where you want to win, if you don't, you cooperate and do the best you can for the country and hope to win the next time. This is something that is undermining our democracy. He must be stopped. He cannot be president![44] |
To everyone's surprise, Biden refused to step aside after a disastrous debate performance with President Trump on June 27, 2024. Biden was roundly criticized by members of his own party and the liberal media, demanding Biden's resignation.[45] The New York Times reported that Biden told key allies he knew he had only days to salvage his presidency.[46] Politico reported "Biden asks for a week to calm the storm".[47]
On July 5, 2024 Newsweek reported Supreme Court Just Gave Joe Biden 'a Powerful Tool' [48] citing 'legal analyst' Glenn Kirschner who said that Biden possesses "powers" relating to presidential immunity and noted that "he's gonna have to use them to save democracy." The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation posted an analysis on the SCOTUS presidential immunity ruling asking, Did the Supreme Court really just give U.S. presidents the power to assassinate opponents?[49]
On July 7, 2024 some leftists called him a "Hitler."[50]
On July 8, just five days before the shooting, Biden told donors in a conference call, "We’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye."[51][52][53][54][55][56]
The first one to call for Trump to be killed is actually not on the left. On Oct 30, 2016, Self declared 'Proud Fascist' Theodore Shoebat[57], said Trump should be put to death.[58] (Theodore Salameh is very different from his father Walid[59][60][61]).
Post attempted assassination
In a television speech on July 16, 2024, Biden made another Freudian slip referring to the "former Trump".[62]
AOC called Trump a "Neo-Nazi" just days after he's Shot.[63]
The Butler shooting
Catastrophic security failure
At 9:00am on July 13, 2024, Butler County Emergency Services Unit (Butler ESU) provided a security briefing for the local SWAT teams and snipers assigned to the rally. The Secret Service did not participate in this security briefing to implement the security plan for the rally.
The shooter arrived at the site 3 hours before President Trump went on stage. At 3pm he triggered a metal detector as he tried to gain access to the event, and was found to be carrying a rangefinder – a gun sight typically used by marksmen preparing to shoot at distance. Security officers allowed him in.
The shooter walked from his van carrying an AR-15 and wearing camouflage pants in plain sight of rallygoers. He came to a building, the American Glass Research (AGR) company, where a ladder had been pre-positioned before time.[64]
The shooter flew a drone over the site to survey the layout.[65] The Secret Service, under Biden DEI appointee Kimberly Cheatle, didn't fly any drones to provide surveillance and warning.[66]
According to CBS News, a team of police snipers was stationed in the same single-story AGR International building, and they saw him outside three times in the minutes leading up to the attack.[67]
At 5:10 p.m., a local police counter-sniper in an AGR building first observed the shooter acting suspiciously. Four minutes later, this officer captured two photos of the shooter.[68]
The Secret Service identified the shooter as a suspicious person 57 minutes before the shooting, and 52 minutes before the president took to the stage to address rallygoers.[69] Dir. Cheatle testified a team of Secret Service was sent out to interview the suspicious person.
He climbed the ladder in full sight of rallygoers carrying his AR-15. Eyewitnesses notified the police of his presence.[70][71]
The shooter was bear-crawling up the roof[72] of an elevated structure a few hundred meters away outside the venue.[73] The shooter had explosive devices in his vehicle parked near the rally,[74] showing he had an elaborated plan.
The line of sight (LOS) distance from the building's rooftop was approximately 130 yards to the podium where President Trump was speaking. Why the rooftop was not secured and protected raises lots of questions as to why, and whether there was proper oversight within the Secret Service.
A local law enforcement officer climbed to the roof and found the shooter, who pointed the rifle at the officer. The officer retreated down the ladder, and the gunman quickly fired toward Trump.[75]
The Secret Service sniper team is said to have had him in their sights for several minutes before taking him out. The rules of engagement (ROE) prohibited the Secret Service from shooting until the gunman shot first.
He is said to have hidden the rifle in advance of the rally.[76]
The shooter killed retired fire chief Corey Comperatore, critically injuring 2 others, and grazing President Trump's right ear.
Initially a Secret Service press spokesperson reported that the shooter got off 5 shots and was "neutralized" by Secret Service snipers with 3 shots;[77] under sworn testimony Dir. Kim Cheatle testified the shooter was "neutralized" by one sniper with one shot.
At approximately 6:23pm local law enforcement with a man initially believed to be Secret Service was seen on the roof of the AGR building;[78] photos of the deceased shooter were taken and thought to be Secret Service directed local law enforcement to send the photos to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) in Philadelphia for facial recognition.[79]
Thomas Crooks
An identified shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks,[81][82] asked his boss for the day off, telling him he had 'something to do,' [83] and had conducted internet searches for mass shooter Ethan Crumbley, major political figures and political events such as that Trump rally,[84] as well as how to build explosives.[85]
The shooter was reported to have 3 overseas bank accounts.
On July 6, Crooks did a Google search for ‘How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?'” (Christopher Wray told a congressional hearing on July 24).[86]
He was a 20-year-old male from Bethel Park, PA, a nursing home employee,[87] was socially awkward with no political profile, according to his classmates;[88] Crooks starred in a Blackrock commercial filmed at Bethel Park High School, from which he graduated in 2022.[89][90] BlackRock, which donated a record amount to Democrats in the 2022 Midterm elections,[91] stands to lose "the billions of dollars it has invested in Ukraine" if President Trump wins reelection in 2024.[92] The New York Times reported about oligarch activities over the 4th of July just days before the assassination attempt, " As more leading Democrats say privately that President Biden should withdraw from the presidential race, some of the party’s most prominent backers on Wall Street spent the holiday weekend debating what to do next...The group — including Larry Fink of BlackRock; Robert Rubin, the former Treasury secretary; Jon Gray of Blackstone; Peter Orszag of Lazard; Blair Effron of Centerview Partners; and Robert Wolf, a former UBS executive close to Barack Obama — talked to friends, colleagues and in some cases each other about whether to stick with Biden."[93]
A classmate recalled being mocked by Crooks for the classmate's support of Trump in 2016:
| “ | [T]he 20-year-old gunman once mocked him over his support of former President Donald Trump and had a general disdain for mainstream politicians across the political aisle.
"I brought up the fact that I'm Hispanic and, you know, I'm for Trump. And he said, 'Well, you're Hispanic, so shouldn't you hate Trump?'" Vincent Taormina told Fox News Digital Tuesday. "No. He's great. He was a great president. He called me stupid – or insinuated that I was stupid."[94] |
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While the Deep State fails to address the high correlation between young mass murderers like Crooks' and violent video games, it did disclose that "investigators found an image of the arrest photo of Ethan Crumbley," who murdered classmates at his school, on Crooks' phone.[95] And of course his said message on a gaming platform hinting at the fateful Saturday.
"According to the New York Times, federal campaign-finance records show" a Thomas Crooks (no middle name) "donated $15 to the Progressive Turnout Project, a liberal voter turnout group, through the Democratic donation platform ActBlue in January 2021."[96] Whether or not this is the same Thomas Crooks remains to be seen. Hours before the incident, the aforementioned progressive TurnoutPAC tweeted about Trump supposedly "destroying Democracy." Quote:
| “ | It's simple people: Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy and another four years of him would be detrimental to our country. | ” |
The tweet was still left even after the assassination.
The Epoch Times reported that Bethel Park High School refuted claims that Crooks had been a member of the school's shooting team or that he was the victim of bullying.[97]
Butler Timeline
The following preliminary timeline was provided by local law enforcement to Sen. Ron Johnson; the Secret Service, Biden DOJ, Biden FBI and Biden Homeland Security Dept. failed to comply with any requests for public briefings.
- 9:00am—Butler ESU holds a briefing for the local SWAT and Sniper units from Butler County, Beaver County, and Washington County providing security for the event.
- According to attendees of the briefing, no Secret Service or other federal law enforcement is present for this briefing.
