Politicians are especially in danger, although we are all at risk. Christopher Rufo:
To say it plainly: there is no need for women in a president’s security detail. The Secret Service is an elite institution that can funnel down a large number of candidates to select the few who will protect the president. The best candidates—the strongest and fastest, the best marksmen—will be men. That’s just reality.
It’s a reality that the Secret Service is determined to circumvent. The agency itself has published its fitness standards in two parts: one for men, and a separate, less rigorous one for women.
And who is involved in "assassination prep?" Quite obviously, the Left:
The June issue of The New Republic is explicitly devoted to comparing Trump to Hitler, one of the greatest mass murderers in human history. It’s full of essays about how grim life will be under Dictator Trump. The editors justified this by saying, “Today, we at The New Republic think we can spend this election year in one of two ways. We can spend it debating whether Trump meets the nine or 17 points that define fascism. Or we can spend it saying, ‘He’s damn close enough, and we’d better fight.’”
Bill,
Laura Loomer this morning on x (Twitter):
“Yesterday during a briefing with Senators, the Secret Service
@SecretService confirmed to US Senators that they spotted shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks at 5:51, confirmed that he was a threat at 5:53, and even after all that, they still allowed President Trump to take the stage at his rally at 6pm.
Shots were fired at 6:11 pm.
This was an inside job. They wanted President Trump to die on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania.
We need criminal investigations into Secret Service and Alejandro Mayorkas.
@AliMayorkas”
If we did not know who we were dealing with, we would say that this was unbelievable.
Vito
Vito,
Loomer’s “inside job” claim has some credibility given the provable mendacity of scumbag Mayorkas, and the fact that the unqualified but ‘wokified’ Kimberly Cheatle is a DEI hire, hired, I understand, by the plagiarist ‘Dr’ Jill Biden.
I like ‘Cheatle’ — a near-aptronym.
But we should not jump to any conclusions until we have more evidence.
Vito,
You will be interested to know that Dion Dimucci turns 85 today. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/07/dion-lives.php
Someone sent me this: https://t.me/realKarliBonne/255497
I suspend judgment for the nonce.
I agree, but we must keep pushing. Dan Bongino on Rumble is excellent on the Secret Service failures, intentional or not, that made this assassination attempt possible (especially 21:28 to 41:11) https://rumble.com/v57ft7n-the-troubling-truth-is-starting-to-emerge-ep.-2289-07182024.html
Bill,
Hard to imagine Dion at 85, but then it is equally hard for me to realize that this other Belmont Avenue boy is pushing 79.
On selling short: The story is all over X, with many sources repeating the same information. Very strange.
Vito
This nails it: https://spectator.org/a-modern-colossus-donald-trump/?lh_aid=60632&lh_cid=nk44dagpne&lh_em=joeode%40mcn.org&di=f7d27ab85f8bfc9c78ad9dab59b3f328
Bill,
Two shooters? Here is troubling evidence, worthy of serious consideration: https://x.com/i/status/1814114895065141491