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Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Is it Gross Incompetence with the Secret Service or Something Else?

I get it. Conspiracy theories can be a dime a dozen, and don't people get a little bit tired of hearing them? Don't things just sometimes happen and it's no one's fault but the people doing them? Most of the time that's probably true, and most of the time conspiracy theories are just that.

Theories.

But they become conspiracy theories sometimes for good reason. It's like a puzzle. The more pieces you put together, the more it begins to form a whole picture.

We now have two assassination attempts on former President Donald Trump's life. Two of them that are 65 days apart. And in both cases, the shooters were mere yards away. One could even say the shooters were in obvious places.

On a rooftop within clear sight of the former president. And one hole away on a golf course.

But I stressed the word "two" for very good reason, because it seems rather uncanny that this would happen. How many times have there been multiple attempts on a former or sitting president? On top of that, you have to consider that in the entire history of our country there have only been 17 assassination attempts made against presidents or presidential candidates, and only five were successful.

It just makes you wonder. What in the hell is going on here? We already know that the Secret Service was grossly incompetent to protect the former president in Butler, PA. The director resigned shortly after being hammered by Congress, with unanimous calls for her resignation from both sides.

But how much transparency was offered to the American people about that? Not much. And why withhold certain information? For days, and even weeks, the Congress interviewed people from the FBI, the Secret Service, and other agencies involved with Trump's protection detail.

They were saying some things. But it wasn't what they were saying that was at issue. It was what they weren't saying. What were they hiding? Were they hiding things? Were they hiding these things to protect themselves? Or was it because of something else?

Before, most people were wondering why an obvious rooftop was not covered at his rally where the former president received a graze wound from a flying round from an assassin's gun. Now we have to ask, "Where was President Trump's detail on the golf course?"

Wouldn't they have several things going on here to ensure a wide swath of coverage to protect not only the former president, but one who's life was already put on the line? Perhaps drones in the sky. Secret Service agents at hole 5 and hole 7? Or maybe they'd just secure the whole damn golf course? Or did they? 

So, how did the shooter get past their radars? Especially in a setting where the Secret Service would have presumably had far more control over the locale than at a rally attended by tens of thousands of rally goers.

How did this happen?

Look, I have no experience in law enforcement, and certainly about protection details. But I have to seriously question if what we are witnessing here is gross incompetence or it's that the Secret Service is in on these attempts somehow.

Granted, unlike the Butler shooting, the shooter is in custody, and so we may be able to know much more about his motivations and what led up to this attempt. I am certain there will be more hearings held, and maybe that too can offer some insight.

Maybe it's just that we have a lot of crazy people running around. It could be as simple as that. It's TDS that has reached an extreme level so extreme that it has now turned haters into cold-blooded killers.

Either way and whatever the answers happen to be, I just can't help but think to myself that something stinks to high Heaven here, and sooner rather than later we need to figure this out and get things back under control.

How many historical events do we need to create when it comes to Donald Trump? Most impeached. First to be indicted. First to be convicted. And now, two assassination attempts?

Enough is enough.

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