I’m not saying that halfway crook was shooting blanks, but I have personally taught children (8-12) to make equivalent shots in less than thirty minutes. Now, training in a controlled environment is very different than making a shot in the real world, I’m specifically speaking of hunting. Some choke, some have nerves, and some decide that, actually, this course of action does not fit with their personal values. Knowing what we know about disturbed white male children and their exposure to firearms, the reality is, if he had actually wanted to shoot trump, he would have. He had a clear and excellent shot with ample time to execute. For whatever reason, he was not actually committed to the execution of his plan. That’s ultimately all that’s needed to know about that sad sack.
Crooks was a bullied loner nerd, who often had noticeable BO, often wore full hunting camo to school… and quite relevantly, performed so badly when trying to qualify at his high school’s rifle club that he was considered dangerous and asked not to return.
This is the kid (teen, adolescent, whatever) that not only would have failed your training, but acted so improperly you would have banned him from your range.
He basically was a weird dork who was actually quite bad at shooting, but wanted to project that um, ackshually, he is a very competent and skilled marksman, I’ll have you know.
He decided to suicide by cop / ‘show everyone once and for all how great of a marksman he is’ in the biglyest way possible.
He tried to shoot Trump and basically failed, because he sucked at shooting and did not value his own life, not because he was set up in some entrapment conspiracy.
Clowns like crook are easily manipulated and seek admiration. I don’t believe for a second that he was able to act so conspicuously without anyone being aware. Given the nature of fascist movements and his own professed fascist leanings, I believe it was allowed to occur.
His position, on the roof with a gun, was filmed by other attendees, who then informed the police.
The problem that led to the event being ‘allowed to occur’ was basically a communication breakdown caused by poor management of the relevant security in the area.
You had the Secret Service detail, the local police, two snipers from the local SWAT team, and a bunch of other police from nearby precincts/counties… communication between all these people was not exactly great, many areas that one group thought was being covered by another group weren’t, and a big part of that was that the entire event was planned hastily, in a short amount of time.
Go watch the hearings that took place after this, its clear that many people mismanaged and rushed the planning and operations parts of the security scenario.
Anyway… by the time enough police near Crooks location had been informed of attendees seeing Crooks on the roof, with a rifle, the cops literally went up the ladder Crooks had set up, worked their way up to the roof where Crooks was.
Why did it take so long for the cops to realize a ladder against that building was suspicious, that Crooks wasn’t supposed to be there?
Because they didn’t even know where the counter snipers were actually set up, and were radioing everyone to figure out whether or not the reports of a rifleman on Crooks’ roof were part of their own security team or not.
When the cop climbing the ladder got his head up, he saw Crooks pointing his gun directly at him and instinctinvely ducked back down.
Crooks then hastily took his shots within seconds, and was then game overed by the Sec Srvc sniper who already had eyes on and was awaiting authorization to fire.
Sure, you could say this was allowed to happen in the sense of it being a shitshow of something like 4 or 5 different groups of security personnel being slapdashed into a makeshift plan…
… but there is no evidence of anyone having prior knowledge that specifically Crooks was planning this, there is no evidence Crooks was entrapped into doing what he did, no evidence any of the security team specifically looking the other way for specifically Crooks to get into position.
It was a collosal fuck up, not a plot.
If it was a plot to ‘almost’ assasinate Trump, it was an insane one. Trump was half an inch away from his head getting Gallagher smashed.
It makes no fucking sense to stage a fake assasination with such razor thin margins of error.
I’m not saying that halfway crook was shooting blanks, but I have personally taught children (8-12) to make equivalent shots in less than thirty minutes. Now, training in a controlled environment is very different than making a shot in the real world, I’m specifically speaking of hunting. Some choke, some have nerves, and some decide that, actually, this course of action does not fit with their personal values. Knowing what we know about disturbed white male children and their exposure to firearms, the reality is, if he had actually wanted to shoot trump, he would have. He had a clear and excellent shot with ample time to execute. For whatever reason, he was not actually committed to the execution of his plan. That’s ultimately all that’s needed to know about that sad sack.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Matthew_Crooks
Crooks was a bullied loner nerd, who often had noticeable BO, often wore full hunting camo to school… and quite relevantly, performed so badly when trying to qualify at his high school’s rifle club that he was considered dangerous and asked not to return.
This is the kid (teen, adolescent, whatever) that not only would have failed your training, but acted so improperly you would have banned him from your range.
He basically was a weird dork who was actually quite bad at shooting, but wanted to project that um, ackshually, he is a very competent and skilled marksman, I’ll have you know.
He decided to suicide by cop / ‘show everyone once and for all how great of a marksman he is’ in the biglyest way possible.
He tried to shoot Trump and basically failed, because he sucked at shooting and did not value his own life, not because he was set up in some entrapment conspiracy.
Clowns like crook are easily manipulated and seek admiration. I don’t believe for a second that he was able to act so conspicuously without anyone being aware. Given the nature of fascist movements and his own professed fascist leanings, I believe it was allowed to occur.
…People did notice.
His position, on the roof with a gun, was filmed by other attendees, who then informed the police.
The problem that led to the event being ‘allowed to occur’ was basically a communication breakdown caused by poor management of the relevant security in the area.
You had the Secret Service detail, the local police, two snipers from the local SWAT team, and a bunch of other police from nearby precincts/counties… communication between all these people was not exactly great, many areas that one group thought was being covered by another group weren’t, and a big part of that was that the entire event was planned hastily, in a short amount of time.
Go watch the hearings that took place after this, its clear that many people mismanaged and rushed the planning and operations parts of the security scenario.
Anyway… by the time enough police near Crooks location had been informed of attendees seeing Crooks on the roof, with a rifle, the cops literally went up the ladder Crooks had set up, worked their way up to the roof where Crooks was.
Why did it take so long for the cops to realize a ladder against that building was suspicious, that Crooks wasn’t supposed to be there?
Because they didn’t even know where the counter snipers were actually set up, and were radioing everyone to figure out whether or not the reports of a rifleman on Crooks’ roof were part of their own security team or not.
When the cop climbing the ladder got his head up, he saw Crooks pointing his gun directly at him and instinctinvely ducked back down.
Crooks then hastily took his shots within seconds, and was then game overed by the Sec Srvc sniper who already had eyes on and was awaiting authorization to fire.
Sure, you could say this was allowed to happen in the sense of it being a shitshow of something like 4 or 5 different groups of security personnel being slapdashed into a makeshift plan…
… but there is no evidence of anyone having prior knowledge that specifically Crooks was planning this, there is no evidence Crooks was entrapped into doing what he did, no evidence any of the security team specifically looking the other way for specifically Crooks to get into position.
It was a collosal fuck up, not a plot.
If it was a plot to ‘almost’ assasinate Trump, it was an insane one. Trump was half an inch away from his head getting Gallagher smashed.
It makes no fucking sense to stage a fake assasination with such razor thin margins of error.
The theorists alleged that trump used a blood packet and he wasn’t actually shot at. But yeah, stupid overall.
Well he definitely wasn’t shooting blanks. There was that guy behind Trump who got shot.
I know. Reading is fundamental…