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Trump Assassination: Security Left the Gates Wide Open, Anyone & Anything Could have Gotten In

Jim Hulings is the Butler County GOP Chair. He had only recently been elected to the volunteer position when, on Saturday, he found himself in the VIP section of the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, as shots rang out during the nation’s most recent presidential assassination.

“It was the worst moment of my life, to think that President Trump had come here, to Butler, and was being killed in front of us. I just couldn’t believe it.

And that was then matched by the greatest moment possible when Trump emerged, bloody but triumphant, and told us to fight! It was the greatest feeling to see that in person, and thank God they didn’t kill our President,” Hulings said.

“We did not run, they had to tell us to leave,” he added.

“When they opened up (security) at 1:00PM, they let the General Admission people go. We had to go through the checkpoint, we had to go through the magnetometers, and we had to turn over things that weren’t on the list. Umbrellas, chairs. The General Admission… I don’t think there was any security there… We were going through one at a time, they went down 30-40 at a time… I’m thinking… that doesn’t seem very secure to me because they didn’t check those people.”

Hulings said he felt the security at the event was “bizarre” because it closely searched and inspected some in the crowd, but let others in with no security whatsoever.

Hulings said he could not see the normal detachments of snipers throughout the rally.

“The security at the event, however, was letting people into the event without any screening and I knew that that was a major security lapse. Someone could have gotten a gun into the event very easily.”

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Israel assassinates Syrian businessman with links to Resistance Axis

Mohammad Baraa al-Katerji, a Syrian businessman with deep ties to the Axis of Resistance, was assassinated on 15 July in an Israeli airstrike near Syrian–Lebanese border. 

Katerji was killed in the town of Saboura on the Syrian side of the border with Lebanon on Monday evening. 

He was a high-profile businessman in Syria and across the region. Along with his brother Hussam, he established businesses in the oil, construction, logistics, and transport sectors. The two were also close to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. 

Katerji was allegedly involved in financing and helping to facilitate weapons transfers to resistance movements across the region, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, according to an Israeli official cited by Financial Times. According to the unnamed official, this included millions of dollars to Hezbollah since the start of the war in Gaza in October. 

As a result, he and his brother have faced harsh sanctions from the US, UK, and EU over the years. Among the sanctioned businesses is the Katerji Holding Group. 

“About a month ago, Katerji Holding Group announced the launch of work on the largest industrial complex in the Middle East and the first of its kind in Syria within the Sheikh Najjar Industrial City in Aleppo on an area of ​​up to three million square meters,” Syrian journalist Mohammad Dabaa wrote on Tuesday. 

“The project includes 357 industries, provides 300,000 direct and indirect job opportunities, and relies on alternative energy, producing 150 megawatts of electrical current, with an implementation period of 12 months,” he added. 

The killing comes as Israel has stepped up its illegal airstrikes on Syrian territory. 

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Taking out Donald Trump: A Tale of Two Conspiracy Theories

After years of false flag events, a dissident, sophisticated hoi polloi is now adept at deconstructing Deep State manipulation. Without missing a beat, following the July 13 attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a rally at the Butler, Pennsylvania fairgrounds, a flurry of counternarratives immediately mushroomed across the social media landscape.

Pundits and citizen journalists far and wide—mostly pro-Trump—are proclaiming with various degrees of evidence that this was a straight-up, orchestrated psyop, NOT the act of some deranged, “lone wolf” reacting to years of hyper goading by Democrats that Trump should be taken out.

The conspiracy theory of these mostly conservative analysts is that the attempted assassination of Trump would do what lawfare has spectacularly failed to do: eliminate a Trump 2.0 presidency. Cui bono? In the opinion of the mostly pro-Trump analysts, the beneficiaries are the reprehensible Democrat forces controlling the DNC—be they the party hacks, the billionaire donors, and/or the uber bosses at the Soros level.

Percolating elsewhere, however, are non-partisan analysts who likewise see a psychological operation, but attribute the choreography not to the Biden camp, but rather to Team Trump. Cui bono? Obviously a surviving, muscularized Trump himself in spades. Gimlet-eyed cynics wonder whether so many picture-perfect images were simply a photo shoot for Trump 2024. Campaign-ready visuals appeared faster than 2015’s We Are Charlie Hebdo posters.

Powerful images of a defiant Trump breaking out from the Secret Service cordon with a clenched fist screaming “Fight! Fight! Fight!” will surely edge out in history the heroic image of Ronald Reason striding away cowboy-style from the attempted assassination on him.

As Trump was coming to the surface from his protective bubble, he said to the Secret Service “Wait! Wait! Wait!” so he could pause for his clenched fist cameo. I could see a Marine-hardened Scott Ritter fearlessly stare down gunshots whizzing by, but The Donald? I don’t think so. Like most mortals, he very likely would have freaked out, shit his pants, and cowered like a three-year-old. Or was The Apprentice star cool and emboldened because he was given cue cards beforehand laden with a super-hero script?

Either way, as per Vince Palamara, the #1 expert on the role of the Secret Service in the JFK assassination, the Secret Service never defers to the president.  It is the president who takes orders from the Secret Service.  It is highly unlikely that on Trump’s in-the-moment command they would pause their professional duty to protect him so that he could grandstand.

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CNN Host Has Hissy Fit As Former Army Sniper Suggests Trump Security Failure “Intentional”

GOP Congressman Cory Mills, a former Army sniper, suggested Tuesday that the security failures during the Trump rally last Saturday could have been intentional as a means of allowing him to be murdered.

Mills made the comments during a CNN interview, angering the host Kate Bolduan.

Mills, a former member of the 82nd Airborne Division and Joint Special Operations Command, argued that the failures were so basic that it is almost inconceivable that they were not intentionally allowed to happen.

“You know, it almost seems to me, I think that the investigation is necessary at this point within Congress, not just the FBI, not just others,” MIlls stated, adding “if you looked at the escalations and how they are trying to approach [Trump]. Let’s just say that it was like, okay, first we want to censor and silence you, then we want to indict and imprison you, now we are attempting to kill you.”

Bolduan then interjected, “Whoa whoa whoa, let’s slow down! I’m hearing two things from you. I don’t want to jump ahead of things, but I’m also hearing you jumping ahead of things.”

Mills responded, “Well, actually, I’m just looking at all the different possible capabilities. One of the things as a military member, one of the things as a person who has run in the special operations communities before, one of the people who’s actually done this is that you look at all the potential analysis, right?”

Bolduan again interupted and ordered Mills to “Dial it back,” bizarrely adding “Do not blame this on Joe Biden.”

“Well, actually, I didn’t say Joe Biden,” he responded.

“Who’s the ‘they,’ then? Let’s be very specific,” the confused host continued.

“That’s what the investigation has to do,” Mills replied, adding “Was it local law enforcement that made the mistakes, or was there something to it? Were there other types of things that we need to be analyzing or looking at, providing analysis?”

Bolduan, sounding annoyed, then asked Mills “Is it not dangerous, it is not reckless to even be throwing around the word ‘intentionally’?”

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Biden’s Team Deliberately Kneecapped Trump’s Security To Allow An Assassination Attempt

Nobody wants to hear this because of the implications, but oh well, because it needs to be said: Joe Biden’s security regime deliberately and with malice and forethought created the conditions that led to an attempted assassin shooting Donald Trump in the head. It is by the grace of God that he lived and our nation is not currently in the midst of a violent civil war.

They deliberately starved Trump’s security team of the resources it needed. And they did it repeatedly, over many weeks and months.

With Trump’s security detail understaffed, under-resourced, and stretched to its limits, Biden’s security regime reportedly diverted even more resources to a hastily planned Jill Biden event that just happened to be in the area.

Biden’s security regime then ordered the most obvious assassination perch in the entire area to remain outside the main security perimeter.

Furthermore, Biden’s Secret Service director ordered law enforcement and counter-snipers OFF the roof the assassin used.

If that weren’t enough, Biden’s security regime also refused to block the line of sight from the assassin’s perch to Trump’s location. When law enforcement radioed in a suspicious person using a laser range finder at the building and even took photos of him, nothing was done to detain the assassin.

The assassin was so obviously a threat that bystanders at the event begged law enforcement to stop him, but nothing happened. And even as snipers on the roof near Trump saw a gunman on the other roof, Biden’s security regime refused to have agents immediately surround Trump or remove him from the stage to protect him from being shot.

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Bongino: There Was Supposed to be Someone on the Roof But They “Didn’t Show Up”

Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino says an “unimpeachable source” told him there was supposed to be someone on the roof from where gunman Thomas Crooks shot at Trump but that they “didn’t show up.”

Bongino made the comments during an appearance on a podcast with Tucker Carlson at the RNC.

“So I was just showing Tucker some material from an unimpeachable source let’s just say on the matter,” said Bongino.

“That post, according to my source, that roof was supposed to be a police post, there was supposed to be someone there,” he added.

“They’re now making up excuses saying the pitch or the roof, my source says to me no one knows why the source didn’t show up, so that’s a nonsense story they’re putting out in the media,” Bongino asserted.

The former NYPD officer also claimed that Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle has been told to “keep your mouth shut” by the Biden administration and the DHS if she wants to keep her job.

Bongino said if site post logs and police instructions were made public, it would unravel what really happened.

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Unhinged Leftists Claim Trump Assassination Staged!

From Hollywood actors to Democrat politicians, the far-left is becoming increasingly demented in the aftermath of Saturday’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

Actor John Cusack claimed to “hate conspiracy theories” before stating there’s “zero chance” Secret Service didn’t cover the roof the shooter climbed onto.

He also suggested the Secret Service wouldn’t have stopped “for a photo op” after Trump was shot in the ear.

“I hate conspiracy theories because they avoid the open conspiracies we see with our eyes – for rabbit hole nonsense – that said – It’s unthinkable that the secret service doesn’t cover the ONE ROOF staring at the stage – zero chance . Also, no secret service action in history lets the candidate stop for a photo op – they cover the body and move it off site about as fast and completely as possible to imagine – see Regan assassination attempt. Makes zero sense.”

“Star Wars” actor Mark Hammill posted an image of Trump wearing a bandage over his ear at Monday’s Republican National Convention, writing, “1st APPEARANCE of ludicrously oversized ear bandage, apparently not needed prior to tonight.”

The comment suggests Trump is faking his injury and the laughing emoji certainly makes light of the assassination attempt.

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CNN Report Claims Secret Service Ramped Up Security Based on Intel of Iran Plot Against Trump

CNN claimed on Tuesday that the US Secret Service ramped up security around Donald Trump in recent weeks based on intelligence from a single “human source” that Iran was plotting to assassinate the former president, accusations Tehran rejected as “unsubstantiated and malicious.”

The report offered no evidence for the claim and only cited unnamed people “briefed on the matter.” They said there was no indication that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old who tried to assassinate Trump over the weekend, had any connection to the alleged plot.

The idea that the Secret Service increased security around Trump has been contested since Crooks was able to get off multiple shots from a nearby rooftop that wasn’t secured.

The report connected the alleged Iranian plot to Trump ordering the assassination of Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who headed Iran’s Quds Force, a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

In response to the report, Iran’s mission to the UN said, “These accusations are unsubstantiated and malicious. From the perspective of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Trump is a criminal who must be prosecuted and punished in a court of law for ordering the assassination of General Soleimani. Iran has chosen the legal path to bring him to justice.”

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Secret Service Director: We Didn’t Put Snipers On The Roof Because It Was Kind Of Sloped

The Secret Service director said the security agency did not station snipers on top of the Pennsylvania roof from which a gunman shot former President Donald Trump last weekend because it was “sloped.”

Kimberly Cheatle, the Secret Service chief refusing calls to step down after Trump was shot in the head, told ABC News that federal officials opted to forgo snipers on the rooftop that was identified as a security threat days before the event.

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

Three counter-snipers were positioned in the building underneath the roof from which Saturday’s gunman fired multiple shots killing one rallygoer and injuring three others, including Trump. The event’s security “command center” was even notified of the shooter moments before the would-be assassin began firing into the crowd.

“The shooter was actually identified as a potential person of suspicion,” Cheatle told ABC. “Unfortunately, with the rapid succession of how things unfolded, by the time that individual was eventually located, they were on the rooftop and were able to fire off at the former president.”

Cheatle told the network, “The buck stops with me,” but she continued to resist calls to resign her post as head of the federal security agency.

Republican Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert introduced legislation Monday to strip the Secret Service director of her salary and expense reimbursements after last weekend’s failed assassination attempt of the GOP presidential nominee.

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Snipers Were INSIDE Building Used By Trump Failed Assassin; Reported Him Using Range Finder, Took Pictures, And Command Did Nothing

Three Beaver County police snipers were reportedly stationed inside the building used by the shooter in Saturday’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump, a local law enforcement officer with ‘direct knowledge’ of the incident tells CBS News‘ Anna Schecter, and as first reported by the Beaver Countian.

It gets worse…

A sniper, stationed on the second floor providing overwatch, saw the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, outside the building and looking up at the roof. He then walked away, returned, whipped out his phone, when one of the snipers took the first of two pictures of him.

Crooks then took out a rangefinder – at which point the sniper radioed to a command post. Crooks then disappeared again and came back a third time with a backpack. The snipers called in once again with information that he had a backpack and that he (Crooks) was walking toward the back of the building.

By the time other officers came for backup, he had climbed on top of the building and was positioned above and behind the snipers inside the building, the officer said.

Two other officers who heard the sniper’s call tried to get onto the roof. State police started rushing to the scene, but by that time, a Secret Service sniper had already killed Crooks, the officer said. –CBS News

So – law enforcement had eyes-on the shooter the entire time, took pictures of him, notified their command post – and nothing was done until Crooks shot Trump, at which point Secret Service snipers returned fire and killed him.

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