[TruthAboutGuns] If you thought former U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s “roof was too steep for snipers” excuse was a lame one—and it was—you’ll love Biden administration FBI Director Chris Wray’s excuse for how the would-be assassin got up on the roof “unnoticed” prior to shooting former President Donald Trump in the ear.
It seems the reason was that the AR-15 the would-be assassin used had a dreaded collapsible stock, making it easier to get on the roof with a rifle unnoticed.
“I can tell you, which may be relevant to your questions, that, um, and I don’t think this has been reported yet, that the [Trump assassin’s] weapon had a collapsible stock which could explain, uh, why it might have been less easy for people to observe,” Wray said. “Because one of the things that we’re finding is the first people to observe him with the weapon was when he was already on the roof and we haven’t yet found anyone with any first-hand observation of him with the weapon walking around beforehand. So that doesn’t mean he wasn’t, obviously, but the collapsible stock is potentially a very significant feature that might be relevant to that.”
Hmmm, so a man climbing up on a roof 150 yards from the stage where the former president was set to address the rally crowd wasn’t suspicious since all the people who had reported seeing the guy hadn’t actually seen him with a rifle until he was already on the roof? Right. And never mind that one law enforcement official prior to the suspect being spotted on the roof had already reported seeing him ranging the distance to the stage with a rangefinder. That wasn’t suspicious enough?
Nearly anyone with a brain knows that Wray scapegoating the collapsible stock is utter nonsense. When not extended, collapsible stocks on ARs only make the rifles about two inches shorter than when the stocks are extended.
A typical DPMS AR-15 with 16-inch barrel, like what the shooter used, is about 32 inches long. With the stock collapsed, the gun would likely have been 29 to 30 inches in length—not exactly what you’d call easily “concealable” when walking through a crowd and scaling a rooftop.
In truth, Wray was simply playing partisan politics with the shooting, trying to make it look like the Biden/Harris-run Secret Service hadn’t really messed up in letting the shooter get off several shots at Trump. That’s about par for the course for Wray.
In fact, just last week Wray was actually questioning whether Trump was, indeed, hit by a bullet.
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Effram Zimbalist Jr. Breaks wind in the general direction of DC.
The guys are just too smart for us! /sarc
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FBI still has not released the basic data of the rifle used: Make, Model #, Serial#
Wray and his regime continue to conceal, misrepresent, scapegoat, & distract the US about the shootings and the evidence. That's where the real conspiracy is. His smirk is the "tell"
[JustTheNews] Sources say inspector general about to release heavily redacted report showing it warned Secret Service about security deficiencies back in April.
After a gunman shot up the White House a decade ago, exposing vulnerabilities at one of America’s iconic landmarks, lawmakers in Congress got an unexpected second dose of bad news.
“The Secret Service did not identify best practices and lessons learned from the 2011 White House shooting incident,” the Homeland Security Department inspector general wrote in a stinging 2016 report that warned that an agency with a zero failure mission failed to learn from one of its high-profile setbacks.
Now eight years later, with the Secret Service once again reeling from a spectacular failure, the same watchdog office is about to drop a fresh bombshell certain to impact the investigation into the near assassination of former President Donald Trump.
Congress was briefed this week that months before the assassination attempt on Trump, Secret Service managers were warned by the Homeland inspector general about serious deficiencies, including communication woes with local police partners and inadequate training for agents who conducted security sweeps at events for protectees, sources told Just the News on Wednesday night.
The concerns flagged by Homeland Security Department Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari were related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot but involve issues that have also been raised in the Secret Service's failures to stop a gunman from wounding Trump at a Butler, Pa., rally on July 13, the congressional aides said.
Some of the concerns could be made public as early as Thursday when Cuffari’s staff is expected to release to Congress a heavily redacted report that was completed in April and titled “USSS Preparation for and Response to the Events of January 6, 2021,” the aides said, speaking only on condition of anonymity because they weren’t permitted to talk to news media.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., the chairman of the House Administration subcommittee on oversight, has been pressing Cuffari to release the report and to resist extensive redactions being sought by the Secret Service and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
According to the congressional sources, the report in April made several specific recommendations to then-Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle as a result of an internal investigation that found Secret Service agents failed to identify an active pipe bomb at the Democratic National Committee headquarters on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, and brought then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris within yards of the explosive device.
Congressional aides also told Just the News one of the findings was that the Secret Service should implement additional training related to security sweeps, such as the one that failed to detect the pipe bomb at the DNC back in 2021.
That recommendation created a heated response from Secret Service management, which insisted no additional training was needed because the agency had made some of its own changes in an April 2022 policy memo, the aides said.
Another recommendation related to communications with local law enforcement, which increasingly are called upon to assist Secret Service at major events like the Trump rally in Butler, Pa., the aides said.
During the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Secret Service needed to collaborate with other agencies including U.S. Capitol Police and Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police.
If both of those findings are formally released to Congress later this week, they will have immediate implications for simultaneous investigations ongoing in the House and Senate related to the July 13 assassination attempt.
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has made public extensive information from local police authorities who worked with the Secret Service, including that the Secret Service failed to attend a briefing the morning of the Trump rally with local law enforcement, who then developed concerns about the eventual shooter more than 100 minutes before bullets began flying,
In addition, the Secret Service acknowledged it failed to cover the rooftop where the shooter fired from inside the event’s defined security perimeter even though it made for an ideal shooter’s nest.
One of the lawmakers participating in the Senate probe, Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kanas, told Just the News on Wednesday the failures of the Secret Service are so extensive that an outside emergency intervention team of experts needs to be imposed on the agency to affect immediate change.
“I feel like our Secret Service is using technology and protocols from last century, as opposed to we really need: people on the ground, especially out there hunting for the bad guy, not just protecting the president,” he said. “I want people that are experts, going out there and profiling bad guys, and I'm going to be right in his face and figured out who this person is. So I think it's a cultural upside down problem, and they have to start over."
A lack – or failure – of communication between the Secret Service and its local law enforcement partners was one of the key security pillars that appears to have failed at Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania, rally.
According to a detailed timeline assembled by Grassley after an investigation into the assassination attempt, local law enforcement spotted the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, nearly 100 minutes before he fired on Donald Trump and other rally attendees.
Nearly an hour and a half before Trump took the stage, texts show that local law enforcement noticed Crooks “snuck in” and “parked by our cars.” This identification came more than a hour before a local officer photographed Crooks and sent the pictures in a group message with other officers on the sniper teams. The other snipers recommended that the officer notify the Secret Service about the suspicious individual, Just the News reported.
The texts provided by Grassley indicate the local law enforcement team notified “command” about the suspicious individual, yet there is no indication that the Secret Service took any immediate actions regarding suspect.
Other key security failures highlight communications before and during the shooting. In some cases, there were warning signs even before the rally.
Shortly after the attempted assassination, a video emerged from the event that appears to show that rally attendees who were watching the speech from outside the fence warned the police that there was a suspicious individual climbing on the roof of the building from where Crooks ultimately opened fire. The video shows one man shouting, “Officer! Officer!” and a woman saying, “He’s on the roof!”
This video, which was disseminated widely on social media after the assassination attempt, was one of the first pieces of evidence that showed law enforcement became aware of Crooks prior to the shooting.
Also, several attendees reported to local police officers that Crooks was suspicious while he was pacing near the metal detectors, according to the Associated Press. Crooks reportedly attempted to bring a rangefinder commonly used by shooting enthusiasts through the metal detectors, raising the suspicion of law enforcement.
In addition to a failure of effective communication between local law enforcement and the Secret Service, there were more warning signs and failures before the event that may have prevented it.
According to the Washington Post, the local police assisting the Secret Service with security warned the agency that they did not have enough manpower or resources to station a patrol car outside the key building used in Crook’s assassination attempt. The Butler County District Attorney said the agency “was informed that the local police department did not have manpower to assist with securing that building.”
Additionally, the Secret Service was reportedly absent from the 9 a.m. briefing hosted by the Butler County Emergency Services Unit.
Ultimately one of the most startling security lapses is that the former president remained on the rally stage delivering his speech and was not evacuated by the Secret Service even though it was monitoring an active threat.
The videos of the event show no attempts by any of the officers to get Trump out of harm’s way on the stage before Crooks fired on him. Even after the would-be assassin shot multiple rounds at Trump and the crowd, the Secret Service seemed confused in its response.
USSS agents could be heard asking “What are we doing?” and “Where are we going from here?” on the microphone as they attempted to evacuate Trump, according to The Hill. For his part, Trump insisted that the agents let him find his shoes, and paused briefly to raise his fist and shout "fight!" to the crowd
[FoxNews] The Republican-led House Small Business Committee has issued a subpoena for President Biden’s Small Business Administration (SBA) after the committee says the agency failed to turn over information related to efforts to funnel resources to help register key swing state voters.
"The House Committee on Small Business (Committee) is investigating the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) implementation of Executive Order (EO) 14019 and its related Memorandum of Understanding and Memorandum of Agreement (collectively, the MOU) with the Michigan Department of State (MDOS), which designated the SBA as a Voter Registration Agency in the State of Michigan under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA)," the Small Business Committee wrote to the SBA on Tuesday.
"The purpose of this investigation is to evaluate legislative solutions to the SBA’s use of federal funds to conduct voter registration activities. Unfortunately, the SBA has produced only a small portion of the documents and communications that the Committee has requested and has done so slowly and after multiple attempts by the Committee to obtain any relevant information," the letter continued.
Thirty-three-year-old pro-life activist Bevelyn Beatty Williams has been sentenced to three years and five months in prison by a Manhattan federal court for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act by protesting outside an NYC child sacrifice abortion clinic.
The Christian was convicted of "interference, including by threats and force, with individuals seeking to obtain and provide" child sacrifice abortions in the early days of the pandemic in 2020, according to a statement from the Department of Justice (DOJ).
The Tennessee wife and mother was sentenced after preaching the Gospel outside an NYC child sacrifice abortion clinic and allegedly injuring a clinic worker’s hand and blocking the entrance.
Williams, who has a two-year-old daughter, intends to appeal the decision.
To that end she he has set up a GiveSendGo fundraiser seeking to raise $250,000 in support of a "fight for freedom," noting she has 60 days to appeal.
So far she has raised $62,000 towards her target amount.
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Who needs the first Amendment. For some reason when the Left goes on destructive rampages its 'mostly peaceful' demonstrations and charges dropped.
After a lawsuit revealed the federal government's highest-ranking transgender official had successfully pressured the World Professional Association on Transgender Health to remove age limits for so-called gender-affirming care from its forthcoming standards in 2022, the Biden administration for the first time claimed it opposed surgery for gender-confused minors.
Activist outrage ensured the clarity didn't last long, prompting the Congressional Anti-Woke Caucus on Tuesday to demand the Department of Health and Human Services specify exactly what procedures it considers "safe and effective" for children who identify as the opposite sex or otherwise want to change their bodies to align with their gender identity.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kámala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and Joe Biden's wing nut, Joe's intended successor'... is on the record for taxpayer-funded gender affirming care, at least for people old enough to be behind bars.
She bragged in a National Center for Transgender Equality interview in 2019 that she "made sure" as Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s attorney general that the state's prison system started granting surgeries for transgender inmates. Democratic Gov. Gavin can't be Bee'd Newsom ...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland... followed by signing a law now being challenged by female inmates that grants prison placement by self-declared gender identity.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] President Trump traveled to reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... on Wednesday to deliver remarks at the National Association of Black Journalists conference.
A rude news hound opened the question and answer session by accusing Trump of lying and attacking the black community.
President Trump sat quietly and patiently as ABC’s Rachel Scott spewed lies.
The crowd erupted as President Trump unleashed on Rachel Scott.
"Well, first of all, I don’t think I’ve ever been asked a question in such a horrible manner," Trump said as the crowd erupted. "You don’t even say, ’Hello. How are you?’ Are you with ABC? Because I think they are a fake news network. A terrible network."
Trump continued, "I think it’s disgraceful that I came here in good spirit. I love the Black population of this country."
Trump went on to tout his accomplishments: "I’ve done so much for the black population of this country, including employment, including opportunities...."
President Trump blasted the host again, "That was such a rude introduction. I don’t know why you would do something like that." But is "Biden" going to rename the White House?
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"That was such a rude introduction. I don’t know why you would do something like that."
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It is clear the Media plans to play the Race Card to the hilt, this election.
With Trump pointing out the Media playing Race games and lying to get him into a staged attack interview, it speaks volumes in itself.
However, based on the audiences' response.
Him calling out ABC for their attack setup, down to even using an aggressively rude Black Female interviewer. Has won him more votes across all races, as he drove him history of Equal Treatment and documented Black-college assistance home.
REMEMBER
VP Harris has ZERO African-American in her.
Her Parents were not even US citizens, they were from Jamaica and India, here attending University of California, Berkeley.
An hasn't the MSM ever bothered to mention any of Biden's anti-Black, or Harris' anti-White racist well documented remarks?
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she went for social climbing instead of intellectual rigor.
Skillz. Gotta have em
Posted by: Frank G ||
08/01/2024 11:38 Comments ||
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Dot head in black face. Every squeal about Trump's truth telling is a Streisand Effect moment.
Posted by: Regular joe ||
08/01/2024 11:51 Comments ||
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To be fair, she has managed to sleep her way to the top.
It's fascinating looking at how the democrats pander to the Black Community, thinking that a shit blaccent and a 3am block party show just will line the Black Community up and back into the box.
*I'm going to date myself a bit, what happened to striving to look like The Fly Girls?
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That said, and back on topic, she comes off as an aggressive prosecutor (cough) and Trump is right, she is absolutely rude as a MC. Even 'Roasts' have an introduction of players.
Yes, Trump is terrified of Kamala and you should organize her campaign around that notion. This is a good plan because you are smart geniuses who are smart and your readers are also smart so you should do this. https://t.co/Y3uU7OXFc9
[Breitbart] A student loan forgiveness update will be rolled out in the next week by the Biden administration, coming less than 100 days before the presidential election.
They keep trying. And the US Supreme Court keeps knocking them down.
Emails will be sent to millions notifying them they could qualify for debt relief under the enhanced program, along with an opportunity to opt out if they want.
An Education Department announcement made clear what is on offer, with U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona declaring:
Starting tomorrow, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) will begin emailing all borrowers with at least one outstanding federally held student loan to provide updates on potential student debt relief.
Today, the Biden-Harris administration takes another step forward in our drive to deliver student debt relief to borrowers who’ve been failed by a broken system.
The Biden-Harris Administration made a commitment to deliver student debt relief to as many borrowers as possible as quickly as possible, and today, as we near the end of a lengthy rLearned Elders of Islamking process, we’re one step closer to keeping that promise.
Much of the relief could be provided to borrowers automatically, without an application, according to the Education Department.
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Dems are going for a two-fer. (1) Email to let the recipients know they're being bribed "so pony up kids". (2) When SCOTUS shoots it down - the Dems will have 25M pissed off freeloaders ready to support the dismembering of the Supreme Court.
[AlphaNews] Minnesotans across the state could put themselves in legal jeopardy by sharing AI-generated memes of political candidates this election season.
According to state law, any individual who shares a so-called "deepfake" meme or video of a political candidate during election season, without the consent of the candidate, and with intent to "influence the result of an election" could face incarceration and significant fines.
What if they’re just sharing it because it’s funny? Besides, mocking our politicians is an ancient tradition in America, long predating independence. Politicans attempting to outlaw being mocked is a tradition almost as old…
Artificial intelligence (AI) and its place in society has been a constant topic of debate amongst tech leaders and politicians in recent years. In the political world, online content creators and provocateurs routinely create AI-generated videos and memes, sometimes known as "deepfakes," to satirize candidates and create outlandish or goofy videos of people in power.
Just days ago, Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk shared a video which portrayed Vice President Kámala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and Joe Biden's wing nut, Joe's intended successor'... , the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, mocking herself, her intelligence, her candidacy, and President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity.... . The voice heard in the video, which was not Harris’ but sounded identical, was produced using AI technology.
Outraged at the humorous lampoon of Vice President Harris, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Gov. Gavin can't be Bee'd Newsom ...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland... , a Democrat, said such videos should be illegal. The governor then pledged to sign legislation outlawing videos like the one Musk shared.
Musk replied to the left-wing governor, saying, "I checked with renowned world authority, Professor Suggon Deeznutz, and he said parody is legal in America." OUCH!
While Newsom issued a pledge to make AI-generated deepfake videos illegal in California, politicians in Minnesota already passed a law which outlaws individuals from sharing AI-generated deepfakes of political candidates in certain situations.
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The UAW leadership endorses Harris, but not the Rank and File is another story.
The workers likely know the UAW leadership is ranking big $$$$ for the endorsement, and couldn't care less what happens to the rank and file in the long run.
UAW Membership has decline just about every year since 1979. In 2022 UAW membership was just 391,000 active and 580,000 retired.
A few backdoor anonymous polls of UAW workers political leanings, show about 64% lean (D) or less than 642k votes Nowhere near the political power it once had.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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