Random Thoughts – Randocity!

As the investigation into what went on at Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania rally progresses, one question that should be on everyone’s mind is,  “Was this shooting was an inside job?” There are too many suspect things involving this shooting, least of all the 20 year old suspect.

Disclaimer: This article is intended to be speculative in its nature and in handling this sensitive topic as this situation is still unfolding. Not all information is yet available. This article is not intended to accuse or defame any individual person or entity stated. This article is only intended to ask the pertinent questions that need to be asked based on what we know so far.

Let’s explore.

What happened?

Trump, as he does on the campaign trail, was holding a political rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13th. Trump was at the microphone at the time speaking. Several shots rang out and Trump’s ear was allegedly grazed by a bullet along with a bullet striking and killing one rally attendee.

Secret Service then stepped in to protect the former President by attempting to hold him down. Before that happened, he defiantly raised a fist, displaying his bloody ear.

Election and All Stops

Trump will pretty much stop at nothing to secure the Presidency. He’s already made that abundantly clear with the January 6th event using his failed attempt at halting the counting of the state electoral vote. Then, as a part of that, setting up and fomenting a violent riot that followed at the Capital.

The question then remains, “Was the shooting at Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania rally an inside job?” Let’s see if we can at least understand better why this is even a question.

Inside Job?

Again, this is a speculative article in its nature. It’s not intending to accuse anyone. It is intended solely to ask questions. Let’s get right to the meat of this article. There are so many suspicious activities involving this Butler, Pennsylvania Trump shooting that we need to understand them all. Let’s make a bulleted list:

• The CIA and FBI are primo at sniffing out early notifications of possible mass shootings. Yet, they missed this one? No social media ramblings at all?
• The Secret Service didn’t scope out the crowd in advance or even during the event?
• The Secret Service didn’t wand or otherwise run the crowd through metal detectors?
• The Secret Service seemingly didn’t have close building rooftops covered to prevent someone from taking pot shots at Donald Trump or the crowd? Hmm…
• The Secret Service was able to neutralize the shooter in seconds? Even more, hmm…
• Donald Trump fist pumps for the camera with a bleeding ear after a supposed gunshot. Yeah, that’s a big hmm…
• That a 20 year old is able to circumvent Secret Service’s security measures? Okay, hmmm.
• Donald Trump’s sends up a defiant fist while Secret Service is attempting to secure him. Uh, nokay.
• Let’s label this what this really is, another a mass shooting.

Let’s break this all down. Neither the CIA nor the FBI had any advanced notice of a possible shooter at this rally? That’s suspect. It’s like no one said anything prior to the rally. I find it difficult to believe that a 20 year old doesn’t have a social media presence, let alone have potential discussions about what went on. Alone, this one miss isn’t a problem if other safeguards catch a would-be assailant. They didn’t.

It’s unclear if the Secret Service was able to properly vet the entire crowd through Magnetometers or by wand device, but it seems that at least one person slipped through that process. The question then is, what happened here? How did this happen? Did this assailant remain far enough away from the event to not need to be vetted by Secret Service?

The building where the shooter camped was not too far from the rally site to fire a weapon reliably, but also it was also not too close to be detected, apparently. I’m guessing that because of this distance, the Secret Service didn’t require vetting people at this distance? Really? Below is the alleged building involved where the suspected 20 year old shooter allegedly camped.

Unfortunately, there is yet another metric that supports that this may have been an inside job. It seems highly unlikely that this building wouldn’t have been fully secured (even the rooftop) in advance of the rally by the Secret Service, including either having SS staff on the rooftop or at least standing outside of this building location to prevent trespassing.

Clearly, at least according to various news media reports, the shooter was neutralized moments (seconds?) after the shots rang out by a Secret Service agent, with one of the suspect’s earlier shots allegedly grazing Trump’s ear while killing a rally participant.

Suspicious

This whole building security situation is highly suspicious. How did a shooter manage to get on top of a building that should have been fully secured by the Secret Service? That either means that Secret Service was not securing that building properly or, this is an even worse thought, that Secret Service ignored the individual as they traversed onto the rooftop with their weapons.

Yet, clearly the Secret Service was able to neutralize this rooftop target in moments after the shots rang out? Secret Service apparently had that rooftop covered as it has been reported that a Secret Service sniper was able to locate, take aim and shoot at the assailant all within a matter of seconds. All of this action by the Secret Service implies that this building was, indeed, being fully covered by Secret Service protection. Yet, a 20 year old shooter can manage to get past that security, pull out a weapon, take a position on the roof and begin firing shots… all without being detected? Yeah, this author is not buying that idea.

The question remains, how would such a shooter manage to get past Secret Service and traverse onto a rooftop of a building that was apparently so well secured? Yes, this is A really big and suspicious question.

Inside Job Part II

As we delve into all of the above, we come to realize that either the Secret Service was highly inept at performing their security responsibilities (doubtful) or that this was an inside job.

Donald Trump and all of his closest confidants, particularly the ones participating in the rally, would likely have known of the Secret Service’s plans (or at least many of them) to secure the rally site. Information that could potentially “leak”.

If the rooftop building was so well covered so as to neutralize the target in moments, it’s inconceivable that a random person could randomly and with extreme luck happen upon a Secret Service blind spot to infiltrate and make their way onto the rooftop all without being seen or, more importantly, heard by Secret Service. Again, either Secret Service was ignoring this situation or it seems likely that something else was going on here. It’s all too suspicious and this author is not buying it.

Why not a Lone Wolf Shooter?

For a person to cart a weapons bag onto a rooftop that is being actively secured by Secret Service and not be seen or heard doing this is infinitesimally small. By infinitesimally, I mean the chances are next to zero. Clearly, if Secret Service were able to neutralize this shooter as rapidly as they did, the Secret Service had coverage on or near the building involved. Having that level of coverage implies that the shooter may have had help to get around the Secret Service detail.

This means that the shooter would have needed to get help to find a blind spot in Secret Service coverage, a blind spot that only an inside person would know. That means that the shooter may have been fed this information prior to traversing onto the rooftop, which allowed that person to avoid being detected by Secret Service, arm up and then take the shots.

Fist Defiance

One highly suspect issue during this whole event is Trump’s behavior immediately following the shot where he realized a bullet had allegedly struck him. Instead of going into panic mode as one might do, he decided to stand up with a fist in the air for a photo opportunity. It’s almost like Trump knew that the threat was over, somehow. That’s not a normal behavior after having been shot and nearly assassinated. Instead, he should have wanted to leave the rally as quickly as possible to secure the safety of his person. Instead, he seemed willing to defy his Secret Service detail as they attempted to pull him to safety.

Seriously, who thinks about photo opportunities when someone is shooting a weapon in your general direction?

Trump involved?

This is a question, not an accusation. We already know that Trump is not avert in taking drastic and unusual steps to make a point and in his attempt to win and/or hold the Presidency. Just look at January 6th as an example. Disclaimer: this is question that must be asked. It is not intended to accuse.

Democrat Involvement?

Clearly, Trump’s sycophant Republicans are going to play the lone-wolf must-be-a-Democrat card, even though it has been confirmed that the now deceased 20 year old shooter was a registered Republican. It also seems like almost every time something happens involving Trump, it is inevitably Trump who had a hand in its outcome. Yet, Trump (and his sycophants) will inevitably and hypocritically blame it all on the Democrats in one breath, while calling for unity in another. Because of all of the suspicious goings on involving this shooting, the entire situation does seem highly suspicious and dubious.

Trump’s Repeated Calls for Violence

Trump has repeatedly used veiled words and rhetoric to call his “troops” into action. What troops you ask? Well, obviously troops like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers and other Republicans. Trump is willing to and understands that through various broad rhetoric, it will call “his” troops into action. His veiled words tell these various groups to do things up to and including performing violence when necessary. Again, look at January 6th as a prime example. It’s not the only example (e.g., NY trial), though.

As a person with the amount of public sway that Donald Trump holds, his seemingly innocent words are put into sometimes threatening and violent actions by his followers. Just look at the rhetoric that Trump used against various judges and various court staff and what ultimately resulted onto those people after Trump’s words were unleashed. His words even went so far as to force a judge to issue a gag order against Trump during his New York Trial. Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump’s biggest hired sycophant lackeys at the time of Trump’s Presidency, was even sued and lost a defamation suit against election workers as he spread many lies about those workers involving the 2020 election; lies that fomented negative action towards these workers by Trump followers. Rudy Giuliani has even been disbarred as a lawyer over his 2020 election lies.

While what Rudy Giuliani said didn’t personally result in threats and violence against those people, at least not by Giuliani’s own hand, it did foment many, many uncomfortable situations for these election workers by others from within Trump’s “troop” camp; well-meaning workers who were simply hired to do a job during an election. Fomenting these kinds of unchecked threats and violence against others is clearly something Trump (and his lawyers) shouldn’t be doing. And yet, perhaps one third to one half of the nation want to reelect this man?

Fomenting violence, regardless of how veiled the rhetoric may be, is still fomenting violence. It’s no wonder that eventually Trump’s own veiled words would turn back around on him. Trump likely knew that this would be an eventuality. Based on all of the suspicious goings on above, it seems more likely that what occurred may have been an inside job, taken as a step to quell that violence by potentially doing it as an inside job; one that looks like it isn’t? We just don’t know.

Unfortunately, one rally goer died as a result.

Is Trump, the Secret Service or his inner circle involved?

There’s no way to know, yet. But, this question must be asked and answered. This situation is still unfolding and we don’t yet have all of the details. This article is written solely using logical speculation based on the details known at the moment of this article and it is based solely on the logical deduction around these rather dubious situations so far. This article is not intended to accuse anyone. It is simply here to ask pertinent questions. After all, even as infinitesimal as it is, a 20 year old lone-wolf shooter managed to slip through Secret Service’s grasp and gain access to an unsecured rooftop to take shots at Trump? It’s not likely he did this without help.

Is it possible it could be done? Yes. Is it probable? No.

Secret Service is way too meticulous in planning its security details involving the former President. Either the Secret Service lapsed in its responsibilities for security at this rally or this was an inside job designed to circumvent the Secret Service.

Unfortunately, even if it was an inside job, the Government will likely squash all evidence of that to make it seem like it was strictly a lone-wolf operation. Only time will tell if the Government will be honest with us over what really happened.

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