Steyn weighs in—brilliantly, as per usual.
What They Wanted
Well, I guess the narrative has moved on to the next plot twist. As Joe Biden said just a few days ago:We’re done talking about the debate. It’s time to put Trump in the bullseye.
It wasn’t quite a bullseye: the bullet struck his ear.
The other night my youngest expressed a wish to see The Manchurian Candidate – the original, of course. And, as great as it is, its famous ending seemed an artifact of a lost and somewhat innocent age: a man is able to stroll into a political rally and access easily a high-up vantage point with a direct line of sight to the nominee.
Couldn’t happen now.
And yet it just did.
Which, pardon my excessive cynicism and all, to me smells like a dead halibut on the centerline of a Texas blacktop in the middle of an August heatwave. More on that stinky, shady angle later, probably.
At the very minimum, this is a catastrophic security failure by the Secret Service. Nine years ago, in a considerably less insane America, my kids and I attended a Trump rally in Burlington, Vermont. I warned them beforehand to travel light because they’d have to go through security, but, unbeknownst to me, that afternoon one of them had been ambling along the street after school, espied a tennis ball in good condition on the ground, picked it up and put it in his pocket. The Secret Service at the Flynn Theatre confiscated it, the agent sternly demanding of my son: “Who takes a tennis ball to a political rally?”
And yet Thomas Matthew Crooks took his AR-15 to a political rally. And the reason he was permitted to do so is because he was “outside the security perimeter” …yet still within range of the candidate’s head.
Does that make sense even by the arseholian standards of the federal government? Even were one to accept it as a good-faith mistake, no prudent person would entrust his life to the same United States Government that wants him broke, gaoled and/or dead. From Sean Davis at The Federalist:
BREAKING: A source familiar with Trump’s security detail tells @FDRLST that the former and future president’s detail has been asking for beefed up protection and resources for weeks, but has been rebuffed time and again by Biden’s DHS.
Robert F Kennedy Jr, whose father and uncle have already taken bullets for their country, has likewise “been rebuffed time and again by Biden’s DHS” – for any protection. It’s almost as if whoever’s actually running the so-called “Biden Administration” has concluded that a descent into blood and carnage would play to their advantage.
This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Just a decade ago, Trump was an amiable bipartisan non-ideological telly-celeb schmoozing with Bill and Hill and doing cameos in Home Alone sequels. The Democrats chose to upgrade him to Hitler – complete with moustache.
Oh, but say what you want, trying to kill the candidate isn’t like January 6th, is it?
And, just for the record, Saturday night was not an assassination attempt: One Republican voter was killed, and at least two others are injured. That’s to say, an American family has had a great big hole blown in its heart – because on a summer afternoon they went to a campaign rally.
Just another day in the United States’ uniquely unique “peaceful transfer of power” – and on to next week…
…when the D卐M☭CRATs and pet Enemedia poodles will be striving mightily to find a big enough rug to sweep yesterday’s atrocity under for good, doubt ye not. We can not, we MUST not, allow that to happen—at not only Trump’s great peril, but our own as well.
Oh, and that Hitler image Mark mentioned? That would be this execrable piece of blatant incitement to violence, which I dl’d last night myself with intentions of posting it here at some point:
Whatever list you might be making—don’t tell me, I do NOT want to know, kindly do NOT feed the glowniggers, thenkyew—make sure you have the New Republic on there, preferably up near the tippy-tip-top.
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“At the very minimum, this is a catastrophic security failure by the Secret Service.”
Steyn is always good, but here, no.
The SS doesn’t make that kind of mistake, not now, not ever. 150 yards is the same as being in the room with Trump. Every deer hunter in the country can shoot a 3 inch circle from 150 yards.
This was deliberate. Someone higher up secured that rooftop for their pet, a mentally ill 20 year old. Just like they released a virus and killed millions.
These are not incompetent people, rather, they are killers. Mass murderer’s.
Yep, hate to say it, but that’s my take on it too, Barry. Although there IS one possibly-semi-somewhat-kinda-sorta exculpatory factor, which I’ll be posting on shortly. Doesn’t by any stretch absolve or exonerate the SS for the fuckup, not by any means. But it DOES help to explain what may have brought it about, or at least one factor therein.
While there is incompetency at work, and incompetents serving, the rooftop 150 yards from President trump is not incompetence. A 12 year old boy that hunts would know that.
I was 10 when JFK was assassinated. I admit to not thinking too deeply about it, but when I heard a rifle was used from a window looking down, I knew it wasn’t all that difficult. I had a rifle and routinely killed squirrels from a 50 yards out. No scope, just the rifle sights and my keen eyesight, and the Great Dog “Smokey” that was a true squirrel dog. Give that boy a scope and ballistic info, and 150 yards is child’s play.