Two weeks have passed and so much has already been written about the Trump assassination attempt which took place in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday July 13, 2024.
The first shots were heard early in the evening at approximately 6:11 pm.
Accounts from different parties have emerged regarding the event.
At this point, the prevailing narrative is that there was a sole shooter, namely Thomas Matthew Crooks.
The abundance of information and speculation surrounding the historic event inevitably adds to the fog of war – if we can borrow that calque.
Fog of war is usually a phrase that is used to describe military operations, but it also serves in the context of information warfare. The following website describes the use of the phrase quite well [with emphasis added]:
“Military operations depend heavily on communications and intelligence to be successful. When one or both of these elements becomes compromised, the result is often called the fog of war. This phrase encompasses all of the confusions and miscalculations that can occur during an actual combat situation. There is also a political version, in which public opinion can be swayed by misinformation or ambiguous reporting of the facts.”
This “political version” which has an objective to sway public opinion by [infusing] misinformation to create “ambiguous reporting of the facts” certainly applies to our examination of the matter at hand.
In addition, one of many purposes of this fog serves to add confusion and to obfuscate.
Moreover, copious amounts of noise is continuously added to the mix which additionally serves to becloud the truth.
Therefore, in this post I have chosen to focus on one key aspect of the assassination attempt, namely that there appears to exist credible evidence which indicates that there was a second shooter.
Hellbound and Down 