Cover Story On Trump Assassination Falling Apart?

Our friend Stephen D. Bryen, PhD has just posted an article in the Asia Times revealing an audio forensic analysis by Catalin Grigoras, director of the National Center for Media Forensics at the University of Colorado in Denver, and Cole Whitecotton, a senior professional research associate at Media Forensics, based on audio recorded in Butler,

Pennsylvania, may show the possibility of a second shooter in addition to 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.

According to these experts, “The first three shots were consistent with alleged weapon A, the next five were consistent with alleged weapon B and the final ‘acoustic impulse’ was emitted by a possible weapon C.” We know that one of those was the identified shooter and another was a Secret Service sniper. We don’t know to whom the “possible weapon C” might have belonged. A second shooter? The armed spotter on the government sniper team?

Only one shooter has been identified and the FBI says he acted alone. The bureau may want to reconsider its conclusion, observed Dr. Bryen.

For our part we’ve never bought the cover story that Thomas Matthew Crooks acted alone when he shot former President – and now Republican candidate for President – Donald Trump.

The operation to assassinate former President Trump was clearly one that took some considerable training, planning, observation and reconnaissance and ideological commitment to carry out.

Crooks “couldn’t shoot at all. He was a terrible shot,” a classmate told the New York Post. Crooks and his father were members of a local shooting range, but no one has yet been able to explain how Crooks went from being “such a comically bad shot” that he couldn’t make the rifle team at Bethel Park High School, two former classmates told The New York Post, to making a 130-yard+ shot that hit former President Trump.

What’s more, Crooks allegedly fired as many as eight rounds at former President Trump. “It is surprising,” Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office Kevin Rojek said when pressed by a reporter on the number of shots Crooks managed to fire.

Rojek’s surprise at Crooks’ rate of fire lends at least a bit of credence to the suggestion that a third rifle was fired during the attempted assassination.

The government has yet to release much information about Crooks’ rifle, allegedly a DPMS “AR-style” semi-automatic rifle. This is a common, mid-tier at best, rifle with no special reputation for accuracy. Whether the rifle was upgraded and equipped with a scope or other optic has yet to be revealed. Witnesses have stated that the would-be assassin set-up his position and used a range finder to confirm his range before taking aim at former President Trump.

This again begs the question where did Crooks get the training and intelligence to go from “comically bad shot” to disciplined marksman setting up his firing position in the only location with a clear field of fire at the rally stage?

A veteran of the sniper team with the world’s longest confirmed kill refuses to believe untrained gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks was so easily able to shoot former President Donald Trump — saying even “a seventh-grader” would know the rooftop he climbed onto was “the most f–king obvious” place to check.

“I’m very familiar with the layout of these types of things and what the job should be,” retired sniper Dallas Alexander said in an Instagram post Sunday of the previous day’s attempted assassination at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pa.

“And yesterday what happened, I have no doubts in my mind that the shooter had help from somewhere within an agency, an organization, or the government,” Alexander stated firmly in an interview with the New York Post.

Dallas Alexander has a point: How could the assassin know the roof would be unguarded? I’ve produced dozens of major political events and presidential campaign rallies, and it would never have occurred to me that the Secret Service would leave an obvious overwatch position unprotected. In a normal scenario the assassin would have climbed up on the roof only to find a Secret Service CAT (counter assault team) member already there. Leaving that roof uncovered was the equivalent of leaving a castle gate unguarded.

What’s more it has now been revealed that Crooks wandered the area for about 30 minutes before he shot Mr. Trump, retrieved a ladder from his car and drew enough attention to himself that he was photographed by law enforcement, but no one with the Secret Service responded to the many witnesses pointing him out as he “bear crawled” across the roof with his rifle.

And the Democrats in charge of the Secret Service and the FBI have rolled out one unbelievably lame excuse after another as to what was going on at the building where Thomas Matthew Crooks methodically set-up his shooting position.

In one of many of what can only be described as WTF moments in the shooting of former President Trump, it turns out the local SWAT team snipers were actually inside the building where Crooks set-up his shooting position. However, the head of the Secret Service claimed no one was positioned on top of the building because the roof was slightly sloped and there was concern that a team member might fall off.

The FBI has now pried open Crooks’ cellphone and other devices, but other than vague references to consuming misinformation nothing has been revealed to dispute their initial statements – based on what we’re not sure – that Crooks acted alone and there was no ideological basis for the attempt on former President Trump’s life.

More and more evidence disputing the non-ideological “lone gunman” cover story put out by the government is emerging – we’re not buying it and we urge all our friends and readers to keep an open mind to alternative sources of information as the story develops.

CHQ Editor George Rasley is a Glock ® certified pistol armorer, firearms instructor and a veteran of over 300 political campaigns, including every Republican presidential campaign from 1976 to 2008. He served as lead advance representative for Governor Sarah Palin in 2008 and has served as a staff member, consultant, or advance representative for some of America's most recognized conservative Republican political figures, including President Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp. A member of American MENSA, he served in policy and communications positions on the House and Senate staff, and during the George H.W. Bush administration he served on the White House staff of Vice President Dan Quayle.