Category Attempted Assassination of Trump 7-13-24

Sep 11 2024

U.S. Secret Service “Protective Operations Asst Director” Asked to Resign Over Butler Assassination Attempt


Posted originally on the CTH on September 10, 2024 | Sundance

According to Fox News the acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe has asked protective operations Asst Director Michael Plati to resign his position.

Hopefully this is not just another example of creating the illusion of accountability.  However, prior precedent indicates nothing dissimilar.  Was Michael Plati the ultimate decisionmaker on all of the facets that led to such a botched protective detail?  Not likely.

(VIA Fox News) – A high-ranking leader within the Secret Service has been asked to retire following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, Fox News Digital has learned.

Michael Plati, office of protective operations assistant director, has been asked to retire and is ending his tenure with the service in the coming days.

Plati was asked to step down by senior leadership, including Acting Director Ronald Rowe.

Fox News Digital has reached out to the United States Secret Service for comment and is awaiting its response. The USSS is preparing to brief Congress in the coming days about lessons learned from the July 13th attempt on Trump’s life. (read more)

While the media, and for their self-interested purposes – the U.S. intelligence apparatchiks, are so quick to push the “mistakes were made” narrative surrounding the assassination attempt, a great number of Americans are not going to just accept this nonsensical reply.

Consider if this failed assassination attempt was on someone not named Donald Trump:

[Son of Liberty] – “The biggest ‘tell’ is how the media tried to deny there was an assassination attempt and then try to say it was staged by Trump for sympathy vote. Think of what the response would have been if it was Barry Sotero this happened to – the media would have likely called for martial law. When the day of reckoning arrives, the media need to be front and center – every single one of the liars.”

Sep 5 2024

Whistleblower Tells Senator Josh Hawley About Sketchy DHS Operations to Guard President Trump from Assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania


Posted originally on the CTH on September 4, 2024 | Sundance

This might be a point that many people do not want to hear, but if you have watched the granular world of politics – specifically how the tradecraft from the IC has evolved over the past 8 years – you might start to wonder what exactly a “whistleblower” is and who motivates them.

If the IC wanted to control information, perhaps an operative wearing the mask of a “whistleblower” would be a good vector for narrative engineering.  Nah, silly me, this is unlikely, right. Right?

I have no reason to doubt that a “whistleblower” communicated with Senator Josh Hawley; but given all of the stakes and players and considering that I cannot think of a single facet to any accountability that has ever come as a result of “whistleblowing,” sometimes I just wonder who vetts them.

The information can be true, and yet we can still not understand why the information appears.  To the smart set amid the group reading this, let me give you a memorable reference about true information that no one questioned, and that no one ever discussed.

Remember that Carter Page FISA application.  A Top-Secret Compartmented Intelligence (TSCI) document, a Title-1 national security document that never before in history was ever revealed by any agency in government; a document that would be the easiest to ever keep hidden because of its status; was made public.  Why did the DOJ release it?  The “information” delivered certainly wasn’t because of FOIA requests by the New York Times, CNN and Judicial Watch.   However, everyone was so happy to see a FISA application, no one ever asked “why are we seeing it?”  I digress…

According to Senator Josh Hawley a “whistleblower” is sharing how DHS officers were assigned to become Secret Service Agents for President Trump…. and that’s why mistakes were made.    WATCH:

Grossly incompetent “mistakes were made” is certainly better than the alternative, eh?

Aug 30 2024

The Trump Assassination Attempt Getting Worse By The Day


Posted Aug 29, 2024 By Martin Armstrong |  

The assassination attempt on Trump will most likely go down in history as another Neocon conspiracy to retain power, as was the case with JFK. There is way TOO MUCH at stake here, and a Trump victory with RFK now, who both are fully aware that the Neocons pose the greatest threat to their power. There is no reason with these people. They have their dogma, but you see a great divide taking place in Israel with leaders of intelligence, etc, coming out against Netanyahu. There is nothing these people will not do, for they are confused about what is best for their country based on their personal beliefs and prejudices.

Aug 22 2024

Republicans Concerned Trump Assassin Used Encrypted Messaging Accounts


Posted originally on the CTH on August 21, 2024 | Sundance 

It started with Senator Lindsey Graham previously saying that perhaps electronic encryption programs needed a legislative ban as an outcome of the Trump assassination attempt.

The “never let a crisis go to waste” narrative continues advancing today with Congressman Mike Waltz.

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. (read more)

If you do not choose to give up some private communication tools in order to make the USA a safer place, then you don’t care about the security of President Trump or something.   That’s the rapidly approaching talking point from the professionally republican.

The Deep State loves unilateral transparency where We The People are transparent, and they remain opaque.  Sorry, but look where we are now.  We never should have agreed to start taking off our shoes at the airport.

Aug 5 2024

This is Alarming – Secret Service Give First Press Briefing, The Sketchy U.SSS Look Even Worse


Posted originally on the CTH on August 4, 2024 | Sundance

I’m just catching up on some events that I have missed.  The first press conference by the U.S. Secret Service about the Trump assassination attempt was alarming.  This is the first time the media had to question USSS since the attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Fox News host Jesse Watters does a good job summarizing the event and encapsulating the largest takeaways from the briefing.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_Yc-WTYPW_o%3Ffeature%3Doembed

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The full press briefing is below.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2jW-wVKy-wI%3Ffeature%3Doembed

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Jul 31 2024

Senators Hawley, Cruz and Johnson Question Secret Service Director and Deputy FBI Director


Posted originally on the CTH on July 30, 2024 | Sundance

In the interests of reader time, here’s a few key excerpts from Senate questioning of Acting Director of the Secret Service Ronald Rowe Jr. and Deputy FBI Director Paul Abbate.

Senator Josh Hawley focuses on “accountability”:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aLfk6EtGve4%3Ffeature%3Doembed

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An ancillary point that just keeps nagging me.

DATAPOINT: Everyone knows, literally prior to this event – everyone knew, that Secret Service protection had been continually denied to Robert F Kennedy Jr, by the people behind Joe Biden.  Not only did everyone know this, but RFK Jr and every pundit on the right-side of the spectrum, continually reminded everyone of this.

CONTEXT: Using hindsight as a review of political narrative assembly and knowing how the IC operates within the dark arts of Machiavellian schemes, a question surfaces.

QUESTION: Was the office of the presidency (that’s Biden) prepositioned, by intent or coincidence, to receive the political fallout from an assassination of his political opposition?  Was the RFK Jr security refusal, entirely purposeful and prepositioned for the political intents of a planned event?

Take out Trump with a bullet. Take out Biden with the consequence.

Back to the questioning.  Next up, Senator Ted Cruz:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5zTdjS4YpvA%3Ffeature%3Doembed

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Senator Ron Johnson:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yAuJkgoFvbY%3Ffeature%3Doembed

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Jul 31 2024

Trump Assassination Attempt – Senate Homeland Security Committee Questions FBI and Secret Service – 10:00am EDT Livestream


Posted originally on the CTH on July 30, 2024 | Sundance

The American public want to know what happened, how it happened and the context for how an assassin was so easily able to get within 150 yards of President Donald Trump and take several shots, killing one and wounding several others – including President Trump.

Today, the Senate Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing at 10:00 am EDT with U.S. Secret Service acting director Ronald Rowe and FBI deputy director Paul Abbate, to ask questions about the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump.

In previous House testimony given by FBI Director Chris Wray, he was curiously willing to answer specific questions about the ongoing investigation and the discoveries therein. A substantive change in approach against the backdrop of his years of obfuscation. That said, Wray’s responses were not always factually accurate. Acting Director Ronald Rowe and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate have not yet answered questions and specific lines of congressional inquiry.

The senate hearing begins at 10:00am with livestream links below:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tzxgMQhWoEo%3Ffeature%3Doembed

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[Via PBS} – […] FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress last week that on July 6, the day Crooks registered to attend the Trump rally, he googled: “How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?” That’s a reference to Lee Harvey Oswald, the shooter who killed President John F. Kennedy from a sniper’s perch in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

New details, meanwhile, were emerging about law enforcement security lapses and missed communications that preceded the shooting.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, released text messages from members of the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit that showed how local officers had communicated with each other about a suspicious-behaving man who turned out to be Crooks lurking around more than an hour before the shooting.

One text just before 4:30 p.m. describes a man “sitting to the direct right on a picnic table about 50 yards from the exit.”

In another text at 5:38 p.m., an officer tells other counter-snipers: “Kid learning around building we are in. AGR I believe it is. I did see him with a range finder looking towards stage. FYI. If you wanna notify SS snipers to look out. I lost sight of him.” Photographs of Crooks circulated among the group.

AGR is a reference to a complex of buildings that form AGR International Inc, a supplier of automation equipment for the glass and plastic packaging industry. Crooks scaled the roof of one of the buildings of the compound and is believed to have fired eight shots at the rally stage with an AR-style rifle that was purchased legally by his father years earlier.

The shots were fired at 6:12 p.m., according to a Beaver County after-action report.

Trump said he was “shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear,” and he appeared in the days later with a bandage on the ear. One rallygoer, Corey Comperatore, was killed, and two others were injured. Crooks was shot dead by a Secret Service counter-sniper.

In an interview with ABC News, a Beaver County officer who sounded the alarm said that after sending a text alerting others to Crooks, “I assumed that there would be somebody coming out to speak with this individual or find out what’s going on.”

Another officer told ABC News that the group was supposed to get a face-to-face briefing with the Secret Service counter-snipers but that that never happened.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=feEtrGRIgxw%3Ffeature%3Doembed

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Jul 29 2024

Way Beyond Sketchy – Local Butler County SWAT Team Says Trump Secret Service Detail Did Not Communicate with Them Before Shooting


Posted originally on the CTH on July 28, 2024 | Sundance

There are a growing number of voices pointing very specifically at the U.S. Secret Service and saying the level of incompetency in Butler County, Pennsylvania, was not accidental.

Indeed, as the fact pattern emerges, despite -and perhaps because of- the lack of public press briefings by DHS and the Secret Service leadership, a strong argument is now gaining momentum that USSS intentionally set President Trump up to be assassinated.  In this horrifically possible scenario, ‘willful blindness’ is the best alternative.

Putting further fuel on the possibility of an intended collapse of security, the local Butler County SWAT team is now telling the public that Secret Service officials never met with them, nor provided secure communications channels between the SWAT members and the Secret Service.  The SWAT team had no way to tell the USSS of the threat they saw moving toward President Trump. This detailed revelation is very troubling.  WATCH:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rziP3dxb99c%3Ffeature%3Doembed

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I am not at all surprised that First Lady Melania Trump now wants to keep Barron Trump as far away from American politics as possible.

The absence of specific government press conferences remains ‘the dog that didn’t bark’.

Jul 27 2024

Never Trust the Secret Service since Elite Bodyguards have a History of Assassinating Heads of State?


Posted originally on Jul 26, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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I have reported how President Richard Nixon had threatened the head of the CIA, saying: “I know who killed JFK.” When he was driven out of office, Nixon refused the protection of the Secret Service. This recent attempted assassination was according to their proven playbook. Use a claimed lone shoot, kill him to make sure there is never a trial, and the problem is eliminated. I have often said that history is merely a map to the future, for human nature never changes.

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There were assassinations and attempted assassinations of Roman emperors by rivals and sometimes bureaucrats who were trying to weasel in to grab power, like the story of Sejanus, who had the emperor’s son poisoned by his wife so he could marry her and then take out Tiberius to take the throne. His plot was discovered and terminated with him. There was also the equivalent of the Secret Service in Roman times – the Praetorian Guard, and they were not always trustworthy.

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During the Republican period, the equivalent of the Praetorian Guard were generally just bodyguards for elite politicians. It was not until 27 BC that the Senate bestowed the title “Augustus” upon him, and he became the first emperor of Rome. From then on, the Praetorian Guard was established, and they became the emperor’s personal security escort—the ancient version of the Secret Service.

Nixon refused the protection of the Secret Service because he was also a student of history. John O’Hurley is coming out this August with a documentary on Watergate, which he hopes will rehabilitate Nixon’s legacy. I met Nixon on the beach on Long Beach Island years ago after he left the White House. I don’t recall the conversation, but I did get the sense he knew his history. I also recall he did not seem to have Secret Service at the time.

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What the Deep State did to Nixon was to discredit him and his legacy to cover up the dark side of their anti-Democratic thirst for power. This, Nixon’s history, is problematic, for it certainly distorts their accomplishments and his fight against the left and the rising trend of communism, where he honed the style of red-baiting, where he would denounce an opponent as an anarchist, communist, Marxist, socialist, or Stalinist. His famous 1959 Kitchen Debate with Khrushchev established his belief in freedom and capitalism.

There is undoubtedly precedent for fearing the Secret Service. Historically, 13 Roman Emperors were assassinated by their Praetorian Guard – the very elite group who were to guard the emperor. There was roughly a 20.5-year interval on average between these assassinations. It is three such intervals since Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963 – 61 years to 2024, before interestingly the next target was Trump.

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Jul 25 2024

Something New – FBI Director Chris Wray Provides Actual Details About FBI Investigation – Video Segments


Posted originally on the CTH on July 24, 2024 | Sundance

Whoa, this is a little unexpected and catches Suspicious Cat a little off-guard.  FBI Director Chris Wray actually answers some detailed questions about the attempted assassination of President Trump and the ongoing investigation.

Beware of voices who are saying we should not be paying attention.  I am providing some segments below so we can all catch up. WATCH:

“8 Cartridges” – “No other suspects”

https://youtube.com/watch?v=PkQct96tT44%3Ffeature%3Doembed

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Jim Jordan gets specific in the next segment:

Drone Recovery in vehicle, with controller – Flight of the drone took place between 3:50 to 4:00pm around the area, approximately 200 yards from the stage – Approximately 11 minutes of drone flight, with livestream –  Three explosive devices in both the vehicle (two) and residence (one) – There were receivers with devices and the suspect had the transmitter – Receivers were not turned on, they were in the “off position” – Encrypted platforms relate to social media networks on suspects phone, Signal, Telegram, encrypted messaging apps.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=C5mspH9f76E%3Ffeature%3Doembed

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F**king Congress breaks to take votes !!….. Grrr….