Greg Nicol’s very early picture and text is smelling to me that way, as a psychological implantation in the minds of post-event investigators that he was a “diligent white hat.” And his leaving his post to personally look for suspect is just more of the same, an “extra diligent white hat.” The access card story about helping his buddy sniper adds a dash of human clumsiness to the recipe, and we’ve got now Greg Nicol looking like “an extra diligent white hat who failed because of his humanity to colleague.” All a nice cover for enabling Crooks to fire unimpeded.
Heck, Crooks’ sitting on the retaining wall and allegedly scrolling the news on his phone - so Greg Nicol could take that picture of him - may all have been part of the same act. That is, Crooks at that moment is a supporting cast for Greg Nicol’s act as a diligent white hat.
Seriously, if you were going to assassinate Trump in ~90 minutes and had cased the area thoroughly for both firing position and LEOs (as Crooks “appears” to have done by walking around, flying drone, etc), would you then take a public break to check your phone right under the ESU snipers’ windows you cased earlier? Does not add up.
So perhaps Crooks unknowingly played a role to build up Greg Nicol’s innocent image, even if he did expect to die a hero for killing Trump. “Before you kill Trump on this spot on this roof, be sure to check your phone on this retaining wall” could have been his instruction.
The pre-seeding of evidence and narratives around July 13 stinks to high heaven. The seeding smells of a potent catalyst for extreme pro-Israel foreign policy and anti-gun/anti-free speech domestic policy.
Had Trump been assassinated on July 13, aggressive MSM narratives would “uncover” evidence of the perpetrator. I focus here on seeding a narrative of outrage against Iran, and against 1st and 2nd amendments.
On July 12, a Pakistani man Merchant who had visited Iran recently is arrested in the US, because he had tried to recruit assassins in the US to kill high profile American targets, and the would-be assassination contractor worked as FBI informant. See article on site operated by Mr. John Solomon. (As in the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot designed and promoted by the FBI remotely controlling useful idiots, so here a Merchant angry at USG policies may be yet another useful idiot remotely controlled by the DS to manufacture terror. This is the NATO Strategy of Tension updated to today, with communists replaced by pro-1st and 2nd amendment supporters.)
As Merchant entered the US in April, he was noted to be in a terrorist watchlist but allowed in per a “significant public benefit parole,” whereby feds can track plots … ““Parole based on significant public benefit includes, but is not limited to, law enforcement and national security reasons or foreign or domestic policy considerations,” the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website says.”
In direct consequence of the arrest of Merchant, CBP " issued a new warning Wednesday to its field offices that Iran or its proxy groups may try to transport “operatives, money or materials” across both the southern and northern U.S. borders to carry out attacks on the United States."
Although Merchant was focused on killing high profile US officials - nothing to do with Israel - the CBP’s Office of Field Operations directed agency personnel to take a “heightened posture due to ongoing security threats,” including against possible attacks on the United States mirroring the recent Iran-backed Hezbollah rocket attack on an Israeli town in the Golan Heights. The memo also warned that heightened tensions across the Middle East due to Israel’s retaliation for the Golan Heights strike – the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran’s capital – increased the risk of a terror attack in the United States , such as a Trump assassination."
The memo thus pre-seeds a link to be uncovered by later investigators that the terrorists who attack the US are the same terrorists who attack Israel, so that it appears to be in the interest of the USG to attack Israel’s enemies for it. See past echoes here.
Merchant was allowed to stay beyond May 11, the expiration of his parole
“Prosecutors unsealed a complaint against him earlier this week, charging him with organizing a “murder-for-hire” plot in a scheme to assassinate U.S. politicians or government officials [i.e. Trump!]. Justice Department and FBI officials said Merchant was working “on behalf of others overseas” and pointed the finger at Iran.”
““This dangerous murder-for-hire plot exposed in today’s charges allegedly was orchestrated by a Pakistani national with close ties to Iran and is straight out of the Iranian playbook,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement.” [Note, lawyer Wray is not saying Iran was behind Merchant’s plans, but suggests so.]
----Now we come to Trump, one day later on July 13----
On July 13, Trump is assassinated with a headshot except for the fact he turns his head at the right second, and the MSM as part of DS immediately puts out a narrative uniform in content and timing of updates.
Had he been assassinated, then Nikki Haley would have been the Republican frontrunner (see her traitorous position here at 1:28-1:32 and at 2:10-2:20) and 2:24-2:32 as a de-facto Israeli representative with US-title), while Josh Shapiro or amoral Harris/Emhof being the Democrat frontrunner, a win for Israel either way
As campus protests had been spreading against Israeli government’s obliteration of Gaza, and US youth becoming more anti than pro Israel, Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs has been pushing to define in US law criticism of Israeli behavior as anti-semitic (anti-1st amendment IHRA definition), and to threaten US universities with withholding of federal funds (to force them to quell protests against Israeli government policies)
Post-Butler, MSM launches narrative of “intelligence” that Iran plots to assassinate Trump, in part from DNI Avril Haines and perhaps also from CIA Deputy Director David Cohen
On July 24, Netanyahu arrives in DC to give a speech to US Congress amidst faltering popular support for his government’s ethnic cleansing, and anti-Israel protests in DC erupt that conveniently are highly offensive to Americans and tagged as pro-Hamas in social media and amplified by astroturf pro-Israel “conservative” accounts like Oli London’s and probably filled with mix of agitators, infiltrators, and useful idiots … the strategy being to con offended Americans to support Israeli government policies
In his speech, Netanyahu asks USG to hit Iran, calls offensive DC protests the work of Iran; had Trump died, surely Netanyahu would have exploited a traumatic national event to provoke a massive hit on Iran.
This is the psychological strategy promoted by Philip Zelikow, 9/11 myth-maker and drafter of the 9/11 Commission Report, in his article “Catastrophic Terrorism”:“Like Pearl Harbor, the event would divide our past and future into a before and after. The United States might respond with draconian measures scaling back civil liberties, allowing wider surveillance of citizens, detention of suspects and use of deadly force.)" 9/11 became Zelikow’s useful event to catalyze domestic surveillance and the pro-Israel WoT.), with Zelikow creating the narrative of interpretation in his tightly-controlled 9/11 Commission Report. The need of a new Pearl Harbor event to accelerate new military policies had been suggested by Wolfowitz-Cheney-Kagan one year before 9/11 in the Project for a New American Century: ““the process of transformation” that PNAC envisioned, “even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor.””
With Trump unexpectedly alive, Netanyahu asserts to Congress anyway of intelligence that Iran did have plans to kill Trump
Trump falls for the “Iran intel” behind the attempted assassination, and posts on Truth Social that he wishes Iran be obliterated (the country, not government) if he were killed … which psychopath Netanyahu surely reads as a great path to get what he wants, the USG to hit Iran
To me, this coincidence of arrest and media buzz around Merchant on July 12, and the attempted assassination of Trump on July 13, by Thomas Crooks with an existing but unknown social media content, seems to allow the DS to paste onto a blank slate any narrative it wishes - “We decrypted Crooks social media accounts connected to Iran!”. If this sounds far-fetched, though in Gab posts Thomas Crooks was pro-immigration and pro-Democrat, FBI Deputy Director Abbate did in fact plant in Congressional testimony for the whole country and MSM a massive pro-Israel narrative with zero evidence, like Powell’s anthrax vials: “Something just very recently uncovered is a social media account, which is believed to be associated with the shooter in the 2019 to 2020 timeframe. There were over 700 comments posted from this account. Some of these comments, if ultimately attributable to the shooter, appear to reflect anti-Semitic and anti-immigration themes, espouse political violence, and are extreme in nature.”
To me this is not coincidental. The stakes are much higher than Trump’s life, or the US’s survival as a semi-republic, but whether the country gets traumatized by forces to con the USG into launching a devastating attack on Israel’s enemy du jour (after false-premised attacks on Iraq, and covertly Syria), a multi-decade enslavement of American minds and USG foreign policy to zionist principles, a loss of the 1st amendment (IHRA) and a loss of the 2nd amendment (Crooks’ AR), to disable Americans of their speech and self-defense, and then impose the WoT against Americans.
The assassination of Trump would have been just as traumatizing as 9/11, and just as useful to create a new traumatic myth to rush the country to war and a desired foreign policy. I am afraid that the risk that he is assassinated is now higher than it was on July 13, given Trump’s prophecy on Truth Social.
Great catch proving Greg coming out of door 9. Not sure there is proof that he was there the whole 4 minutes…we think the reflection is the flag on the motor bike that occasionally blows in the wind. We also think Greg could have fired the first 3 shots up in the roof cavity shooting thru an open vent…time will tell, at worst Greg and his mate allowed Crooks to get on the roof.
One detail I noticed was that Greg finds himself locked out of the building at the 8:26 mark. This is a bit odd, as he supposedly had just helped someone out of that same situation moments before. Did none of the snipers have keycards that day? We might want to consider adding that to the long list of planning failures that day…
Also, in examining the video, I’m unable to see the elbow you mentioned, as the frames I examined before and after he left, appear virtually identical.
They’re still trying to find that source because that timing and angle is incredible. It seems that only FOX News showed it for a few seconds, and no one else can find anything on it. Even with the bulk amount of bodycam footage that was released, that particular clip is never found anywhere.
I believe for sure that Crooks did what he was told and Nicol’s must have either been in on it or could not NOT have stopped it by just yelling at the kid from a window. Also, he needs to explain why if he first took the photo at 5:15 p.m., he did not circulate it until 5:45 p.m. (or so). His “excuse”, perhaps would be, “I only thought he was a threat when I later saw him with a range finder.” Of course there is no photo of him with a range finder??? Could it be, that the photo got circulated only when Nicol’s was informed about when Trump would soon come on stage? Did Nicol know that the scheduled start of the rally was being delayed by an hour?
Nicol’s true whereabouts and the true story of he and the other sniper in the overlook building is the key to this “mystery” IMO. Of course, Congress has yet to speak with any of these people even though at least one person on the “committee” said that was the way to get to the bottom of what happened.
I have a theory about Crooks, piecing together ideas from myself and others and open source information.
Crooks, knowingly or unwittingly, was a disposable patsy recruited and put on the shelf MK Ultra style, one of many “assets” around the country waiting to be activated. He was a computer nerd, either bribed or blackmailed (e.g. real or planted child porn on his computer). We have indications of encrypted foreign accounts (a very odd detail), and that he checked his phone for porn before his attack (a very odd act).
Crooks was not acting alone, believed he would survive to escape, and believed he was meeting at least one other person pre-attack.
Evidence: We are told he had a white van with explosives (IED) parked in a residential area a few miles away, and Crooks was carrying the initiator. But the receiver switch on the device was in the “off” position. This can only be described as an intended diversionary device to draw attention away from him during his escape. I can think of no other reason to go thru the effort to assemble and stage this IED van. And it makes no sense for it to be miles away and the bomb in the “off” position. Pointless. It only makes sense if another person was to drive it to the S or SW side of the rally and stage it, and turn the switch to “on,” making the device ready.
It is reasonable to assume that co-conspirator was also “supposed to” have a rifle and shoot at President Trump.
Obviously, that portion of the plan fell thru, whether by CIA design or that person failed to show we don’t know. Could have been a ruse, or that person was unreliable.
The ladder. Crooks purchases a 5’ ladder. That is an odd size given the height of these rooftops. Some theories.
A. He didn’t know what size and figured 5’ would be able to be smuggled to the location, and/or perhaps did not put it in place early enough to avoid observation.
B. His handlers told him to leave it home knowing he could not sneak a ladder onto the grounds, and instructed him to improvise parcore up on the air conditioning unit and shed.
C. (My prior theory that his handlers may have emplaced the tall orange ladder but Crooks could not find it has been debunked by the new police cam video released showing the officer being boosted up, and no ladder).
One would think an assassin would wait in the shadows, hiding, until ready to move and strike. Crooks was wandering around openly for only 1 of 2 rational reasons.
A: He was supposed to meet 1 or more co-conspirators who failed to show. This may have been legitimate other parties that chickened out, or a CIA ruse.
Part of the CIA ruse appears to give plenty of opportunities for Crooks to be seen at the event for the later narrative of a lone gunman, but I haven’t fully worked out those details.
I can adopt the theory that Crooks’ handlers were communicating to him through secret messages on a pornography website, which is why he was checking his phone for instructions or to meet his co-conspirator. He might have been told to meet his partner at the picnic table (where he was observed), at that retaining wall under the snipers, unknown to him to be photographed so the team could generate some “white hat” or plausible deniability (“Hey, we alerted everyone to this guy… and went to go find him…”). And note, using a range finder in the open is a bizarre act, when that distance could be eye-balled or looked upon Google Earth…
The plan may have involved enough of a plausible excuse to have the 2nd story counter snipers to see Crooks acting very suspect (range finder, etc.) and leave their posts to “go find this suspicious man” and get “locked out,” (both are implausible inane excuses for the record) etc. which is the cover story we are given. However the excuses are implausible especially the timing (being gone from their post for a unreasonably long period, some 6+ minutes!). And this is compounded by the long list of security failures (poor location for counter snipers being inside with narrow windows and poor fields of observation, open unguarded rooftops on the AGR, security with only pistols, a obvious lack of interest of the rooftop by a dozen cops running around looking everywhere except the rooftop, etc.).
B. Crooks was an unwilling patsy and wanted to get stopped, detained and captured. Evidence. Openly using a rangefinder, not carrying any ID, carrying a detonation device, a ladder receipt etc. Any diligent search of the grounds would likely recover his bag with a rifle. These would all be cause to at least detain him.
Evidence Crooks mindset is a plan to survive and escape, leading to the inevitable conclusion that there was an inside helper(s) who promised him survival.
A. The diversionary IED van. I can think of no other purpose for it, than someone was to drive it to the rally and arm it for a diversion. The most sensible plan was for Crooks to fire his rifle, then detonate the van parked at the rally by a partner. If Crooks was to go to the van and do something with it, no need for him to be carrying the remote detonator.
Note: High probability the IED van was constructed and parked there as a double-cross for Crooks to believe he had a diversionary exit strategy. He was given the detonator and a (fake) notion about a partner and the van. The CIA constructed a weak/crude IED, parked it, and it was never going to detonate as it was “off” and probably not even connected. May not even been a real IED.
Note also, it’s amazing how the Feds immediately found this white van miles away given all their other incompetence. What prompted them to look for a white van with Arizona plates parked miles away? A “tip?” Highly suspect… Unless they knew it was there the whole time.
[Note: We have seen this same pipe bomb ruse with the Feds planting one at the J6 event and then sitting on it.]
B. Having thought about it more, the IED van could have been a attempt to use it to ram and attack the President upon his medical evacuation if he were only wounded and transported out in his vehicle, ambulance, etc. Of course that still requires the van be occupied, staged perhaps on the route to the hospital, etc. That however also requires a partner because Crooks could not have been at the van.
C. He was using a rifle easily known to be traceable back to his residence and father. It only makes sense if he either wanted to get caught before hand, or he believed he would escape, or he wanted to implicate his parents.
D. Receipt for the ladder in his pocket. This could be an innocuous detail, forgetfulness, laziness, clutter, or show an intent to keep the receipt to return it. Or it could have been further cause to detain him hence his open wandering around lasering the place…
Implicating his parents. As a clearly disturbed kid, he may have had hatred for his parents. Evidence. He apparently researched the Michigan parents who were convicted for having aided their son in a mass shooting, providing the gun and ignoring warning signs. His plot may have been to implicate his parents for criminal and civil charges by leaving the rifle (whether he was dead or alive).
Excellent analysis, plausible, and highly likely course of events had it been successful. Blame Iran, install a neo-con RINO warhawk or re-elect Biden, perfect cover action for war with Iran, and ban AR15s and “assault weapons” as icing on the cake.
Big Tim, everything you wrote is reasonable and natural. I can’t quibble with any of your rationalizations as being unlikely. Thank you for sharing the result of your mulling, and allowing multiple possibilities.
While we may not know yet or ever the exact motivations of Crooks or whether he was intended to escape or die a hero, those answers are not that important. The pre-planned security flaws with predictable consequences, odd behaviors by Crooks, sequential massive “incompetence” of SS and BC ESU snipers, silence by the feds, disabled IED, are under no doubt and too many to be merely coincidental, so the stench is high. If you start to ponder “cui bono” then the stench rises further, had Trump died and the country become traumatized and angry:
Unpopular Biden becomes more popular as a revengeful national unifier (like H.W. Bush became after 9/11), a welcome boost for his electoral chances five days after his comment “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”
FBI and DS get a ban on semi-auto guns and an excuse for draconian surveillance and harassment of gun owners
DS and zios get to pin the assassination on Iran (see my other post), starting another war for profit, power, domestic control, and pro-Israel policies
Thank you for checking about the window, this turned out to be a false guess.
Your comment about Greg Nicol finding himself locked out of AGR 6 at 8:26/6:15:05 is significant. He was one of two BC ESU snipers assigned to the 2nd floor of AGR 7 and their abandonment of their posts was allegedly because:
One BC ESU sniper decided to go out of the building and look for suspect, see page 6, apparently to the east side where two (police) cars pulled in (the unmarked one being a grey PA police cruiser)
The other BC ESU sniper supposedly left in AGR had to go out to let (1) back in because allegedly (1) did not have an access card
So if Greg Nicol does not have an access in this video, and excuses (1-2) are true, then he’d be sniper (1). That would be consistent with he being the one to have taken a picture of Crooks and having more visual familiarity with the suspect.
It’s extremely weird that we still do not know, 28 days later, who the other BC ESU sniper assigned to 2nd windows was!
If there was a second shooter, the lack of info about his name and looks would be consistent with protecting him from scrutiny/interviews.
Below video is one of the earlier analysis videos of ReelJustice.
Just watch the first 3.5 minutes and from 6:40 to the end.
There are several things wrong with the analysis, but the focus of this video is on the girl with the white dress, standing all by herself at the fence of the secured perimeter, looking at the building where the shots would come from.
As soon as the shots are fired, she runs back to the SS area behind Trump’s podium. Was she the signal to the other’s of the plot to proceed with the plan?
Ignore the references in the video to the guy in the red shirt. In a later video he corrects his analysis, because the guy in the red shirt is Dave Stewart and what he thinks is a gun is actually Dave’s cell phone.
But why is the girl in the white dress standing at the fence line.
Below is a screenshot taken from one of the Bodycam videos.
Excellent find. She is highly suspicious, not because she was looking at AGR 6 just before the shooting (the many police running thereabouts were sure to draw attention), but because of her proximity to Secret Service in 3-3:30 and 6:35-end, as you point out!
Btw, would you please link to the bodycam video of the bottom screenshot, please?
Here are some closeups of your screen shot and two AI-unblurred versions:
