Quote:Cellphone and detonator found on rooftop near suspected Trump shooter

'A picture obtained by a Pittsburgh-area TV station shows a cellphone and detonator carried by
the gunman who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump at the Butler county show grounds in
western Pennsylvania last Saturday.



The items were shown on the rooftop from which Thomas Matthew Crooks used an AR-15-style
rifle to fire on the former president and Republican presidential nominee.

Trump suffered an injury to his right ear. One rally-goer was killed and two injured.
The 20-year-old gunman was shot dead by security officers.

In a febrile and partisan national atmosphere, the shooting appears to have boosted Trump’s
image in his campaign against Joe Biden. The Democratic president has called for a cooling
of political invective. At the Republican national convention in Milwaukee, Trump has worn a
prominent bandage on his ear as speakers have celebrated his narrow escape.

WPXI, an NBC-affiliate station, obtained and reported the picture of Crooks’s phone and
detonator on Tuesday. The gunman’s motives remained unclear, though officials said they
had been able to access his phone. Sources told the Washington Post “cracking the phone
did not crack the case”, though it offered leads to pursue.

Crooks’s car was found to contain a metal box of explosives connected to a receiver, CNN
reported, adding that investigators were considering the idea Crooks intended to create a
distraction during the shooting.

WPXI also reported on continuing confusion over why the gunman was seen by witnesses
and by law enforcement but not conclusively confronted. Kimberly Cheatle, the director of
the US Secret Service, has said local police officers were inside the building from which
Crooks shot.

“We did share support for that particular site and the Secret Service was responsible for the
inner perimeter,” Cheatle told ABC News. “And then we sought assistance from our local
counterparts for the outer perimeter.

“There was local police in that building – there was local police in the area that were
responsible for the outer perimeter of the building.” WPXI reported that local police
were never stationed in the building concerned.

Tom Knight, the Butler township manager, said: “So the building was outside the event area
and there was conversations about the logistical coverage for the building, what the building
had for access points and what access points could be controlled.”

WPXI said sources said Crooks was still on the ground when Trump began speaking.

Knight said there was then “a radio transmission indicating that there was a suspicious
individual on the rooftop, [and it] was my understanding [that] was our officers’ first
notification to begin moving towards that building.

“Two of the officers went to what appeared to be the lowest point from ground to roof.
One of the officers actually boosted the second officer up high enough for him to grab
hold of the roof. He did in fact see an individual on the roof with a weapon.”

Crooks pointed his rifle at the officer, Knight said, as the officer hung on to the roof with
both hands, unable to reach his radio or his own weapon. The officer “lost his own grip
and fell approximately eight feet to the ground”. Shortly after that, Crooks opened fire.
Cheatle faces mounting calls to resign. She has said she will not.

On Wednesday, Mike Johnson, the Republican House speaker from Louisiana, told Fox
News: “I’m going to call for resignation as well. I think it’s inexcusable.” Of comments in
which Cheatle said the “sloped roof” of the building Crooks climbed had created safety
concerns for snipers, Johnson said: “It doesn’t wash, and I think she’s shown what her
priorities are. I don’t know her personally, but we’ll be asking lots of questions.”

Cheatle is due to appear before the House oversight committee on Monday. At least five
other congressional committees have said they want to investigate. Johnson said: “I’ll be
setting up … a special taskforce within the House. And the reason we’re going to do it
that way, is because that is a more of a precision strike.”...'

(07-17-2024, 08:53 PM)BIAD Wrote: It seems Mr Crooks had distractions in mind too.


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(07-18-2024, 09:08 AM)Ninurta Wrote: I checked a few minutes ago, and Google has change the shooter's manner of death from "assassination" to just plain old "died":




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(07-18-2024, 11:52 AM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote:

(07-18-2024, 09:08 AM)Ninurta Wrote: I checked a few minutes ago, and Google has change the shooter's manner of death from "assassination" to just plain old "died":




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Seems to be some changes going on around here.



There is nothing wrong. You should not attempt to make sense out of anything they do. They are controlling transmission. They  control the horizontal. They control the vertical. As we sit quietly and let them, they  control all that we see and hear. We are experiencing the manipulation which reaches our inner mind to...wherever they chose to take us.

(07-18-2024, 06:04 PM)Ninurta Wrote:

(07-18-2024, 11:52 AM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote:

(07-18-2024, 09:08 AM)Ninurta Wrote: I checked a few minutes ago, and Google has change the shooter's manner of death from "assassination" to just plain old "died":




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Seems to be some changes going on around here.



There is nothing wrong. You should not attempt to make sense out of anything they do. They are controlling transmission. They  control the horizontal. They control the vertical. As we sit quietly and let them, they  control all that we see and hear. We are experiencing the manipulation which reaches our inner mind to...wherever they chose to take us.

I may be wrong here, but I have a sneaky feeling that video was NOT about how to knit a Vietnamese Lady Bug when you first posted it....

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(07-19-2024, 09:08 PM)Ninurta Wrote: I'm just going to leave this video laying here for possible consideration in the tapestry of videos that have proliferated in the aftermath of the assassination attempt:




Keep in mind that the video has all the earmarks of an AI generated CGI video. The teaser photo at the head of the video on the page is almost certainly some sort of "deep fake" image. It appears to show Larry Fink and the shooter walking along, with Fink carrying what appear to be some variant of Russian SVD Dragunov sniper rifle, and the shooter carrying a spare magazine for it. Nowhere in the video is that image referenced or explained, leading me to believe it is a CGI deep fake intended as click-bait.

It's no secret that BlackRock is the world's leading "investment management firm", nor is it any secret that quite a few "multi-national" firms, BlackRock included, have developed internal security forces that amount to small armies that rival the entire national armies of some nations. That development follows the pattern first set forth in a number of dystopian novels from years ago predicting the unwarranted political power the authors feared would eventually develop withing corporate circles which has now come to actualization.

The political influence corporations now wield within governments has apparently been welcomed by both governments and corporations, with the phrase of the day being "public-private partnerships", and promoted as some kind of GOOD thing, when in actuality it is nothing of the sort - it is, by definition, Fascism. That is the definition Mussolini himself, the original and ultimate Fascist, gave to Fascism. I don't see how any of the Leftists can possibly be missing that development if they were truly "anti-Fascist":, but apparently fascism is ok to them so long as it is supporting THEIR cause, while allowing them to attempt to redefine Fascism so they have something to yell about and rail against while ultimately promoting the actual Fascism prowling the Earth.

An actual link, however tenuous, has been established between the shooter and BlackRock, with his inclusion in a video shot for promotional purposes. That was shot a couple of years ago, which gives a couple of years for that relationship to have potentially been developed under the table. BlackRock quickly pulled the commercial, but not before an actual first contact situation could be established. What is the potential for further developments stemming from that first contact?

We know that Blackrock is balls-deep in promoting the "woke" culture, with serious and deep ties to organizations like the fine folks at the WEF. We know that BlackRock has been instrumental in forcing companies into the woke ranks with such shenanigans as requiring ESG scores before a company can be considered for loan capital for growth and development, effectively forcing a company into the woke ranks if they was to survive. In other words, BlackRock is up to their eyeballs in promotion of "globalism" under a Leftist banner - as globalism has been developing. Globalism is, at it's core and source, a Leftist philosophy of collectivism writ large.

We also know that Trump's brand of nationalism is set at loggerheads with the Globalist philosophy... meaning that Trump may be the number one, most visible and active, "enemy" of the Globalist agenda. nationalism and Globalism are directly opposed to one another, and cannot live in the same space.

This makes Trump the number one enemy of the globalists, with BlackRock being the number one promoter of Globalism. From that, we can see the benefits accruing to the Globalists should "someone" eliminate their number one threat - Mr. Trump. Surely BlackRock would never consider such a thing though... right? RIGHT?

Also factor in the reports that BlackRock did some stock manipulations - "short-selling", I think it was called... and I have no idea what "short-selling" is - in order to manipulate the values of Trump-related stocks should "something" happen to him... and they did that JUST BEFORE the assassination attempt. Did they know "something" was about to happen that they could financially benefit from?

The potential of a relationship leads me to wonder a few things.

1) What was the shooter's actual motivation? So far, nothing of any explanatory use has been uncovered. Given the fact that the shooter has always been described as a "loner", constantly glued to his phone even up to the moments before the shooting, how is it possible that he left NO footprint indicating political views and opinions?

2) Given the fact that so far no searches or any other indications of searches for bomb-making have been uncovered, WHERE did the shooter get his knowledge of how to build remoter detonation IED's? That's not something that just pops into one's head one morning. He had to have had some sort of guidance and education in the matter, so if no evidence for that has been discovered, WHERE DID IT COME FROM?

3) How did he manage to gain access to the sniper post he chose, right under the noses of Federal, State, AND Local Law Enforcement? How could that possible happen without some sort of "help"?

4) WHY did he seemingly choose the ONLY vantage point for sniping in the area that was mostly entirely unguarded? Did he have direction form someone "in the know" that the post was pretty much unguarded and unoccupied, while at the same time being a prime sniper post with a good field of view and close enough to Trump that he could have almost hit him with a rock, much less a 1 MOA bullet shot?

5) Sniper teams do their best work out in the wide open world, not contained inside four walls inside a building, which severely limits their range and field of fire. Whose bright idea was it to put the sniper team that was inside that building INSIDE it, rather than outside it, where they could do their jobs? Whose idea was it to do that, specifically in the very building that was close enough for a clean shot to anyone daring to take up a sniper post on the roof of it?

5A) Corollary to the above, how could anyone have possibly moved across a sheet metal roof without alerting those cops allegedly posted inside it? Have you ever been under a sheet metal roof when someone was walking on it? The popping noises as the sheet metal bends and adjusts to accommodate the shifting weight going across it is practically deafening. How could the cops allegedly inside the building not hear that and be alerted?

Keep in mind that this is ALL speculation. "Conspiracy theory" if you will. It may bear no relation to actual truth on the ground, but until those questions are satisfactorily answered, they remain open... as does the "conspiracy theory" they engender.

Inquiring minds want to know, and the investigators best stop stonewalling and start releasing answers if they want those theories to die on the vine.

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(07-19-2024, 06:15 AM)727Sky Wrote: Someone on the water tower as people have been saying all along.

(07-19-2024, 09:56 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: I grew up with, "Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see."

Now it is, "Believe none of what you hear and none of what you see."

None of them have any truth in them. I have no faith in the nationalist or globalist agenda. I honestly believe that they are both the under the control of one collective enterprise and they have no concerned about the masses as a whole.

I doubt anything that comes from the media and the internet. They only tell you what they want you to know, dress it in the way they want you to see it, and flavor it the way they want you to feel.

The majority of what we are being fed is deceit, manipulation and distortion, for money, power, and control.

I am so tired of it. Maybe it is worse because I am laid up with my back, and can't get to my church and community volunteer work.

I try to limit my online time. I have to do better.

(07-20-2024, 12:14 AM)Ninurta Wrote: While it's true that neither of them give a damn about us, "the People", what we CAN count on is that they give a damn about themselves, and their own agendas - at least enough of a damn to try to take each other out whenever a chance arises - both figuratively and literally.

So, whether we like it or not, we have no choice but to be caught in the crossfire between them. So, we either have to pick a side that is the closest to our own interests, or else just hunker down and wait for the bullet we never see coming. There aren't any other choices - either do something, or do nothing. If you know of another choice, I'd love to hear it.

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(07-20-2024, 01:07 PM)727Sky Wrote:

Quote:It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. ----Thomas Sowell