After one Year on the Assassination attempt

We don't know enough

One year to the day after the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump in Butler, PA, in which only the hand of God turned the head of the former President in a literal nick of time to save his life, the American public remains in the dark about what really happened.

We have countless questions that remain unanswered about transparency, accountability, and potential bias in the investigation. The shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, fired from an unsecured rooftop, killing one Trump supporter and injuring two others, yet his motive remains unknown, with only vague references to searches about Trump, Biden, and depressive disorder.

Who else might have been involved in enabling Crooks’ actions? Why did the Secret Service fail so spectacularly to secure the AGR building’s roof, despite local police warning two days prior they lacked manpower to cover it, and why were agents unaware of an Iranian threat known ten days earlier?

Why were six Secret Service agents merely suspended for 10 to 42 days rather than fired for what a bipartisan House report called “preventable” and “stunning security failures,” including communication breakdowns and unclear command structures? Why did the agency fail to act on local reports of Crooks’ suspicious behavior with a rangefinder an hour before the shooting, or relay warnings about him “bear-crawling” on the roof?

Why did the agent in charge determine that counter snipers couldn't be on that roof, securing it, due to its slight slope? The Secret Service’s own admission of “complacency” and “technological breakdowns,” such as faulty radios and inoperative drone detection, raises even more questions. Would the investigation be this shallow and ineffective if the target had been another candidate, like Kamala Harris or Joe Biden? Or any previous president?

The persistent finger-pointing, minimal disciplinary action, and failure to address systemic issues, like the Secret Service’s reliance on “informal” planning and a culture of “doing more with less”, suggest a cover-up or deliberate negligence.

In an era of political coverups, from the Epstein client list to Biden's cognitive impairment to the Covid pandemic and more, the lack of answers to the questions raised by the near murder of a former President and then leading candidate to win the offic again is the most disturbing one of them all.

By: Bob Frantz, Strickly Speaking