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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/sanctuarianism-wednesday-august-21

Media may have forgotten, but we haven’t, that President Trump was recently shot in Butler County and narrowly escaped death by miraculously avoiding an assassin’s eight bullets. Many questions have arisen, and few answers. But last week we got a few answers and a few new questions.

Louisiana Representative Clay Higgins (R-La.) is a former law enforcement officer and a member of the House Freedom Caucus. ...

Higgins serves on the House Bi-Partisan Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump. The Task Force assigned Higgins to visit the scene in Butler and provide a preliminary report, which he did last week on August 12th. You can read Congressman Higgins’ full report here:

https://clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Preliminary-Investigative-Report-8.12.24.pdf

Rather than summarize the six-page report, let’s look at a few issues of great public interest. Read the whole thing for a full briefing.

The Water Tower. Many people have suspected a second shooter on top of the nearby water tower, which is a natural sniper perch and enjoys a clear line of sight to both Trump and Crooks’ positions.

But after visiting the site and inspecting the tower, Higgins has cooled to the idea of a tower sniper. He noticed the water tower had a retractable safety ladder that, on the day of the shooting, was raised 25 feet off the ground. Higgins opined that, if a sniper did get up on the tower, it must have been some next-level work “beyond anything I’ve ever actually seen.”

A geared sniper would have had to somehow scale the first 25 feet without a ladder, scurry up the next 75 feet on the ladder, and then clamber up a tiny and precarious dome ladder to the tippy top. Higgins was doubtful.

Still, Higgins plans to return and climb the water tower himself (it wasn’t possible on the day he was there) to make sure.

Signs of FBI Cover Up. Higgins is very suspicious about the way the FBI handled the investigation.

Representative Higgins identified several way the FBI deviated from normal procedure, not to mention the procedures they should have followed in a top-level case that would surely receive microscopic scrutiny.

Yet, for still unexplained reasons, the FBI made some inexplicable and unexplained decisions seemingly designed to shut down the investigation:

— On the night of the shooting, the FBI released all the first responders (EMS, cops, and so forth) without taking their statements.

— The FBI released the entire crime scene after only three days. Higgins reported that local law enforcement expressed “everything from surprise to dismay to suspicion” at how quickly the feds cleared the crime scene. This meant the evidence was not preserved to allow agencies to do their work.

— On-scene FBI agents “cleaned up biological evidence” from the crime scene, instead of following normal protocol and letting a specialized evidence unit handle the cleanup. Higgins said this was unheard of.

— The FBI released Crooks’ body for cremation just ten days after the shooting, surprising all the locals, and even though legally, Butler County had jurisdiction over the body. Now, we are stuck with the initial examination report, whatever it is, which still hadn’t been published as of the date of Higgin’s report.

Higgins described the FBI’s “pattern of investigative scorched earth” as reasonably calculated to be “an obstruction to any following investigative effort.” So.

Secret Service Questions. Higgins found even more questions about how the Secret Service responded at the event, including one huge, previously unknown problem.

Representative Higgins found that:

— Butler County had provided radios for the Secret Service, so they could stay connected with local security efforts. But for some reason, Secret Service never picked up the radios.

— It appears the Butler event was the first time Secret Service counter-sniper teams were ever assigned to Trump’s detail. Why?

— Most astonishingly, the Secret Service’s sniper was not the first to shoot back. Crooks was shot twice. A Butler County SWAT officer took the first shot. It was a very difficult shot, taken on the move while clearing cover and putting the officer into the line of fire. He hit and disabled Crooks’ gun, injuring Crooks with shrapnel. Only then, only after Crooks’ weapon was disabled, did the southern Secret Service sniper shoot and kill Crooks (a headshot).

Maybe the oddest fact of all was that, until now, neither the FBI nor the Secret Service ever mentioned the heroic Butler SWAT officer who disabled Crooks, allowing the assassin to be terminated by the Secret Service sniper. Weirdly, local SWAT guys ended the threat before the Secret Service snipers did.

There were several other fascinating and unanswered questions in Higgins’ report. Read the whole thing.

https://clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Preliminary-Investigative-Report-8.12.24.pdf

Patrick says

There were several other fascinating and unanswered questions in Higgins’ report. Read the whole thing.

Unanswered questions are the whole point. They lead to many empty hallways and disinformation doors leading to empty space. Erasing the evidence relegates the whole movie to irrelevant reveries that simply feed on one another into Gordian knots of speculation.

I'm satisfied that Trump et. alia switcheroo'd the movie event more adroitly than the traditional demons managed to foist it and left them spluttering in their incompetency. The Trump group has comms they can't at this point defeat it appears. Illuminati wars are interesting.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/local-cop-not-secret-service-shot-trump-rally-shooter-first

Trump shooter Thomas Crooks had encrypted messaging accounts in Belgium, Germany, New Zealand
By Josh Christenson

Published Aug. 21, 2024, 4:26 p.m. ET
CHICAGO — Trump rally gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks used encrypted messaging accounts on various platforms located in Belgium, New Zealand and Germany, according to a member of a congressional task force investigating his assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.

Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), one of 13 lawmakers tapped to serve on the House bipartisan task force, told reporters at a Wednesday press conference at the Trump Hotel Chicago that the “overseas accounts” piqued his suspicion immediately regarding the shooter’s motives.”

“Why does a 19-year-old kid who is a health care aid need encrypted platforms not even based in the United States, but based abroad – where most terrorist organizations know it is harder for our law enforcement to get into?” asked Waltz.

https://nypost.com/2024/08/21/us-news/trump-shooter-thomas-crooks-had-encrypted-messaging-accounts-in-belgium-germany-new-zealand/

Or, why does a loner need three encrypted chats at ALL? To talk to no friends?

LOL! Like, does anyone expect 'transparency'? It's a movie. Coroner and the pathologist who conducted the autopsy are not necessarily the same person and are often kept separate to avoid conflicts of interest. Even so, pathologists are not incorruptible. Making him the coroner also allows him to dispose of the findings anyway he pleases for optics and politics.

Remember when the crooked Masonic Sheriff in the Lahaina DEW massacre was also made the coroner? That was part of the cover up strategy.

https://t.me/followsthewhiterabbit/94521

https://nypost.com/2024/08/26/us-news/why-would-be-trump-assassin-thomas-crooks-remains-an-infuriating-enigma-weeks-after-shooting/

Why would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks remains an infuriating enigma weeks after shooting

Patrick says

Why would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks remains an infuriating enigma weeks after shooting

He's not an enigma, he's a cartoon. The play didn't go as scripted, so they just closed the curtains and wait for the memory hole amnesia to take hold.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/25/exclusive-donald-trump-unveils-dramatic-details-assassination-attempt-moment-happened-whos-blame-why-he-got-up-yelled-fight-fight-fight/

“So what are the odds that I’m looking to the right?” Trump said. “The poster is never used early, and it’s never on the right it’s always on the left. If you take the odds of this whole thing it’s like 10 million to one and you only have an eighth of a second.”

As Trump said this, he started moving his head to various angles and pointing out he’d be dead in all but one angle in which he’s alive which he thankfully is today.

“I’m turning, and I’m dead here, I’m dead here, I’m dead here, dead, dead, alive, dead,” Trump said. “So, think, you only have this exact spot right here. This is an amazing phenomena. It’s millions to nothing. There’s about an eighth of a second where I’m good. The rest of the time you’re dead.” ...

After Trump was shot and he went down, Trump told Breitbart News the Secret Service personnel around him wanted to take him out on a stretcher. But he said he insisted he could and would get up and walk to the waiting vehicle to take him to the hospital under his own strength.

“I wanted to get up because I thought it would look terrible for me to not get up,” Trump said. “They wanted me to go on a stretcher and I said ‘no I don’t want to go on a stretcher. I was hit in the ear. I was only hit in the ear.’ They said ‘no, no you were hit—‘ and I said ‘I’m telling you folks, I want to get up now. I want to get up.’ And they wanted me on a stretcher for obvious reasons because if I was hit somewhere else bad things can happen and you know if they don’t take the person out. I was really actually angry because I didn’t want to go on a stretcher. I wanted to get up and I felt I could get up. I said ‘the only place I’m telling you I was hit was in the ear.’”

Trump stood up, and held his fist in the air yelling “fight, fight, fight!” Then agents hurried him off to the vehicle where they took him to the hospital to treat the bullet wound to his ear.

Hole in Trump's ear:

https://patriots.win/p/1994fevy4o/josh-howley-whistleblower-tells-/c

Josh Howley: Whistleblower tells me most of the agents at the Trump rally the day of the assassination attempt were Homeland Security NOT Secret Service — and the only training they received was a 2-hour online “webinar”!

Rowe, the pinhead Acting USSS director testified to Congress, giving his agents full credit. Turns out the sniper was first engaged by the Butler Police, not the Feds. Hawley also confirms that most weren't USSS but from other Homeland Security departments.

https://x.com/JesseBWatters/status/1831130653829513685

https://slaynews.com/news/trump-reveals-son-barrons-reaction-assassination-attempt/

Trump revealed his youngest son Barron’s reaction to the shocking attempt on the 45th president’s life.

In an interview with Mark Levin, Trump said his son was having a tennis lesson when he discovered his father had been shot.

“Barron was outside having a tennis lesson,” Trump told Levin.

“He’s a good tennis player.

“And somebody ran up and said, ‘Barron! Barron! Your father’s been shot!’”

Barron ran to his mother, Melania Trump, who had been watching Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on live TV.

“He loves his father,” Trump said.

“He’s a good kid, good student, good athlete actually.

“He ran, ‘Mom! What’s going on? What’s going on?’”

“She couldn’t believe it,” Trump said of Melania’s reaction.

“She was actually watching it live, can you imagine?

“And then I get up, and I let people know I was OK,” he said, recalling his iconic moment of defiance, in which he raised one fist and shouted, “Fight! fight! fight!”

Trump said, “I let people know I was OK.

“But it was a hit, it was a big hit.”

Trump said his wife is still too traumatized to bring up the attack. ...

In a separate interview with Monica Crowley, Trump said he is beginning to question if he was set up.

“I wasn’t thinking this way three weeks ago, but the more you see it, the more you start to say there could be something else and that’s really dangerous for the country,” he said.

Duh, of course it was the CIA and DNC.

https://x.com/HawleyMO/status/1831132426573054452

Melania posted a video:

https://x.com/MELANIATRUMP/status/1833476085998063741

Old News that might have been missed:

At least five US Secret Service agents have been placed on administrative leave following the attempt on Donald Trump's life in Pennsylvania, US media reports.

They include the head of the the Pittsburgh field office that coordinated security with local police, three other agents in the same office and a member of Trump's personal detail, according to the BBC's US news partner CBS.

Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, was injured in the right ear by a bullet fired from a roof by Thomas Crooks, 20, at a rally in Butler on 13 July.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyn6p67p0jo

RazörFist
@RAZ0RFIST

Roses are red,
Wives should be kissed.
Why did Biden wait to drop out,
'Til after the sniper missed?

"I love the smell of pawns falling on their swords in the morning."

https://palexander.substack.com/p/shots-fired-inat-trump-golf-course

Shots fired in/at Trump Golf course where Trump playing, Trump now taken to safe place, developing story, FLUID, so will share more, West Palm beach, Trump golf course...stand by as we learn more!

AmericanKulak says

Old News that might have been missed:

At least five US Secret Service agents have been placed on administrative leave following the attempt on Donald Trump's life in Pennsylvania, US media reports.

They include the head of the the Pittsburgh field office that coordinated security with local police, three other agents in the same office and a member of Trump's personal detail, according to the BBC's US news partner CBS.

Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, was injured in the right ear by a bullet fired from a roof by Thomas Crooks, 20, at a rally in Butler on 13 July.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyn6p67p0jo

And we have to hear it from the BBC.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/surging-saturday-september-28-2024

Thursday, Fox News ran a story confirming a key fact we’ve heard before, headlined “Local officer's bullet stopped Trump shooter's gunfire before Secret Service shot, witness testifies.”

According to officers’ testimony in the Senate, a Butler County Emergency Services officer fired at Thomas Crooks less than six seconds after Crooks began shooting. The officer’s bullet made Crooks recoil and stop shooting—ending the threat. Only then did the Secret Service sniper fire at Crooks —about 15 seconds later.

Count out fifteen seconds to yourself to see how long it is.

There appears to be some dispute about whether Butler’s officer shot Crooks or not. The FBI says they missed. Butler thinks they wounded and disabled Crooks. We’ll never know, since the FBI quietly and inexplicably released Crooks’ body for cremation in the days following the incident. Maybe when they tested Crooks’ body, it came up positive for covid and they panicked.

On Thursday, the coroner testified saying the Secret Service bullet was the kill shot.

The fact Butler cops shot first is important, because it raises an ugly question. Why did the Secret Service wait to shoot Crook until after he’d already been shot at by the locals? Regardless whether or not the Butler people wounded Crooks, assassination time was over.

When Crooks was no longer a danger to anyone, was it then his time to exit the world’s stage? I wouldn’t even entertain a conspiratorial question like that if it weren’t for the equally unbelievable alternative explanation that the Secret Service catastrophically failed in about a dozen different ways.

After all, local cops were presumably less well-trained than the Secret Service snipers, and the cops occupied a less favorable position to take the shot since they were shooting at Crooks from the ground and not a sniper’s perch.

Why were local police more effective than trained Secret Service snipers?

Because the Secret Service was itself conspiring in the CIA/DNC assassination attempt.

Not to mention the leaks about 3 separate teams equipped with 9 SAMs (surface to air missiles) and tasked to take down Trump's airplane.

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1841392431985483933

https://ground.news/article/70c356c4-cf86-4962-b416-5e1a20c83a1f

Elon Musk announced he will attend a rally for Donald Trump on October 5 in Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of a previous assassination attempt on Trump.
Musk expressed support on X, stating, “I will be there to support!” in response to Trump’s rally post.
Trump described his return to Butler, where the July 2024 attempt occurred, as "historic."

Illuminati Card Game again. Secret service, wrestled the assassin down just a second too late, LOL!

https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1841645637504217376

Yeah, we kinna already knew that, along to CIA and foreign teams.

https://slaynews.com/news/george-conway-compares-trump-hitler-cancer-must-be-removed/

George Conway Compares Trump to Hitler: ‘He’s a Cancer That Must Be Removed Once and for All’

George Conway is a cancer that must be removed once and for all.

The_Deplorable says

https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1841645637504217376

https://rumble.com/v5hoip9-trump-campaign-releases-inspiring-ad-ahead-of-butler-pa-return.html

https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1844198755328749650

@JackPosobiec
The silence surrounding the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump 90 days ago is deafening

Here we are, months later, and it's as if this seismic event never happened in the eyes of mainstream media. But let's not forget - this wasn't just any event, it was an assassination attempt caught live on television, a brutal moment where an innocent man was murdered

Imagine, for a moment, if this had ended differently. Trump miraculously escaped what could have been a fatal encounter. Yet, rather than a national reckoning on political violence, we're met with a media landscape that's seemingly moved on, as if the attempt on a former president's life was just another day's news.

This memory-holing isn't just about overlooking an event; it's about ignoring the implications:

- *Security Failures*: How did someone get so close with lethal intent? This should've sparked a nationwide review of protection for political figures, yet here we stand, without answers or improvements.

- *Political Discourse*: When a former president can be targeted openly, it's a stark reminder of how toxic our political rhetoric has become. Yet, instead of addressing this, we're fed trivialities, as if the attempt didn't scream for a deeper conversation on where our discourse is leading us.

- *Public Memory*: By not keeping this event in the public eye, are we not setting a dangerous precedent? If we can forget or ignore an assassination attempt, what else are we willing to overlook?

The miracle here isn't just that Trump survived; it's that this hasn't become a catalyst for change. The media, tasked with informing the public, has instead chosen to look away, perhaps out of discomfort with the narrative, or maybe due to fatigue from constant political drama.

But this isn't about Trump's political stance; it's about the sanctity of political life in our society. Ignoring this doesn't make it go away; it normalizes the unthinkable.

Wake up, America. This wasn't just an attempt on Trump; it was an attack on our collective security, on the idea that political figures, regardless of their views, should be safe to engage in public life. Let's not let this be just another forgotten headline. We owe it to ourselves to confront this head-on

Patrick says

Hole in Trump's ear:

Blood on his right hand, see index finger tip and middle finger: