I got a Kamala Harris ad before the video played. Talk about bias. Or misplaced ads.
It is a crazy things to have Kamala Harris giving a intro to a SS briefing on an assassination attempt at Donald Trump.
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Try looking for the first FBI/PSP presser from July 13th. It was crazy trying to find a video of it without ads that you couldn’t skip and kept popping up every 30 seconds. I’ve never seen that on a YouTube video. All of the ABC and affiliate version did it. I only found one video with the whole conference covered. It seems like YouTube doesn’t want people watching it for some reason.
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I accept this, but the emails I send, I think they’re way above average in terms of being cogent. But it’s very rare to even get any basic questions back, stuff like “who is ‘Murcko’?” or “how do you know that Hercules 1 turned north?”
The impression I get is that they can tell I’m making sense and that’s why they stop responding. They sense danger.
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I think it is crazy that this is the first press briefing since the assassination attempt.
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I have a good chunk of experience with journalists, local level mostly. It is rare to find anyone who can afford to do more than copy and paste. I have had my press releases printed in local papers, including the typos. Brevity, precision, and a story that gets eyeballs - they don’t produce, they harvest anything just sitting there on the ground that needs a camera (or whatever) pointed at it.
Your story is big and important but is worth as much as a story about a lost dog that went on a surprising journey to finally make its way back home. Get the full story at 11.
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There are a lot of ways to view, and download, YouTube videos without using their web-site.
- youtube-dl on a Mac or Linux machine
- NewPipe app for an Android phone
- Invidious instance to view in a browser
There are many more as well. A search on Yandex will provide you with lots of options.
Chris,
What is your opinion of the John Cullen video where he says a second shooter is trying to kill the SS counter sniper teams. He proposes subsonic Blackout rounds being fired at Hercules 1 from a second shooter BEFORE the eight shots we hear clearly. Cullen says by the time these eight shots occur, the Hercules 1 team has already killed Crooks, presuming that the shots directed at them are coming from Crooks, and the eight shots are fired by someone else. Multiple Shooters? | John Cullen & Clay Martin (TPC #1,538)
Chris’ videos about the Butler are far more informative & insightful than the 5 page USSS summary accompanying Rowe’s recent press “briefing”. Hell, I knew MORE BEFORE reading the 5 page summary than after;-(
Many thanks Chris for your contributions to the public’s understanding.
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Correction: Chris’ videos about Butler …
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And not even a single word of regret that their failure led to the murderer of Corey Comperatore and severe injuries of James Copenhaver and David Dutch.
From the 5page summary.
I always thought LOS stands for Line Of Sight, seems the USSS has a different understanding about it.
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This is the basic message presented by a video segment on Dan Bongino’s Rumble vlog on 17 Sep combined with his comments about Trump’s inadequate security gleaned from insiders on his USSS team. Dan is a former, 12 year USSS special agent who worked on the presidential protection teams for Clinton and Obama, so he knows what he’s talking about:
Democrats’ Rhetoric Inspired Another Attempt On President Trump’s Life
September 16, 2024
[LONG list of examples]
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Stochastic terrorism
Stochastic terrorism is political violence that has been instigated by hostile public rhetoric that is directed at a group or an individual. Unlike incitement to terrorism, stochastic terrorism is accomplished by using indirect, vague, or coded language that allows the instigator to plausibly disclaim responsibility for the resulting violence. A key element is the use of social media and other distributed forms of communications where the person who carries out the violence has no direct connection to the users of violent rhetoric.
[snip]
“the use of mass communications to stir up random lone wolves to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable”, with plausible deniability for those creating media messaging.
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The steps:
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Publicly malign Trump via all sorts of hateful public statements: He’s Hitler, threat to democracy, etc.
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Then, as Dan Bongino has pointed out, the level of USSS assigned security forces is based solely upon the position/title of the protectee and NOT the level of perceived threat. He rightly thinks that is STUPID and, I think, is one of his gripes in his book, “Protecting the President.” Plus, he’s apparently heard from members of the USSS Trump protection team that additional assets requested have usually been denied. Of course, this could actually be a feature to enable this process to eliminate unvetted/filtered rebel candidates with plausible deniability.
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That inadequate security then allows Trump to be “removed from contention” via proxies like Crooks and Routh.
What I don’t understand is why billionaire Trump doesn’t pay out of pocket for additional security OR why part of his $155 million campaign fund isn’t used for same.
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Much more damning info in this 6 minute 32 second video than described in its associated text included below. Former 12 year USSS presidential protective services special agent Dan Bongino says the unbelievable level of precedural violations and incompitence reaches the level of criminal negligence:
Jesse Watters
@JesseBWatters
Sep 20, 2024
Why is a @SecretService agent, involved in the Trump assassination attempt, hiring an anti-Trump deep state lawyer?
What’s his agenda?
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Disgusting. Not a briefing about anything except we now will have more money for more people to be advised to act AFTER shots are fired. Florida assasination was per the book and he is satisfied and would change NOTHING!!! What?!Aren’t there thousands of companies who pay for “preventative” security? Oh no, silly me…no wants to prevent a crime. Trump needs to get rid of SS completely NOW if this is how they are or he won’t make it. “You’re fired!”
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This is my biggest gripe with government. Private sector has no such expected protections, yet government tries each year to gain exclusive use of all legal violence.
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Has anyone watched Rowe’s press conference?
He admitted that the “counter-sniper response agent” (I’m assuming the agent in charge of the two counter sniper teams) knew that the issue being “worked by local law enforcement at the three o’clock position,” was in fact the sighting of someone on the A.G.R. building, and this agent had this information before the local officer hoisted himself up to view Crooks on the roof!
Here’s a verbatim excerpt from Rowe’s opening statement at that press conference:
"For example, the Secret Service did not co-locate its security room with local law enforcement.
"There was an over-reliance on mobile devices, resulting in information being siloed.
For example, at approximately 18:10 local time, Secret Service informed personnel that local police were addressing an issue at the three o’clock of the outer perimeter.***
At approximately 18:10 local time, by a phone call, the Secret Service security room calls the counter sniper response agent reporting an individual on the roof of the A.G.R. building. That vital piece of information was not relayed over the Secret Service radio network.
At approximately 18:10 and 54 seconds, verified through body camera footage of local law enforcement, officers confront the assailant on the roof of the A.G.R. building."
And…
Here’s what Rowe said in his Congressional testimony on July 30th:
“However, I would like to point out, that based on what I know right now, neither the Secret Service counter sniper teams, nor members of the former President’s security detail, had any knowledge that there was a man on the roof of the AGR building with a firearm. It is my understanding those personnel were not aware the assailant had a firearm until they heard gunshots.
Prior to that, they were operating with the knowledge that local law enforcement was working an issue of a suspicious individual, prior to the shots being fired.”
Note the egregious dishonesty on display from Rowe.
He bamboozled everyone in the hearing room by leading them to believe that no Secret Service personnel had any idea Crooks was on the roof of the A.G.R. building, when in fact he was insulating himself from future accusations of lying before Congress, by adding the qualifier that no Secret Service personnel knew that there was a man on the roof with a firearm.
So he knew at the time of his testimony that the Secret Service did in fact know that someone was on the roof of the most important structure at the rally site, well over a minute before the shots were fired, but he tried to cover it up with this firearm nonsense.
And the worst of that coverup is that the agent in charge of the counter-snipers kept the information from Trump’s close protection team, preventing him from being removed from the stage.
What a weasel…
this opens up all kinds of avenues for Congressional investigators. Not least of which, they should be calling for Rowe’s immediate resignation for brazenly misleading Congress in his testimony on July 30th.
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What if Corey Comperatores surviving family files a wrongful death lawsuit against the government, Secret Service, FBI, DHS and others to get evidence and depositions?
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EXCELLENT point;-(
Chris, should I say Dr Martenson,
Twice you refer to President Donald Trump as “trump” which could be a typo or spell check insertion. To be fair, the second example is a cut/paste of the lede sentence. I know you live in the Dark Blue northeast and you were never close to being a conscript given a choice between being part of a military fighting a jungle war or a prison population in the USA, but in the name of individual liberty and freedom we should have a voice about the direction of our own lives.
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hello @pyrran,
you did not address the question to me, but when I saw that video, I had a couple of remarks…
- he “hears” subsonic rounds when playing the footage at 1/10th of the speed
- the way he presents the video of the first 3 shots is very misleading. by repeating that footage a zillion times, you are made to believe that many subsonic bullets were fired
- I do not believe that the counter snipers on the northern barn on the right of Trump were taking fire. the reason why they moved the way they moved was because they were absorbing the recoil of their own rifles while returning fire, but as they did not have a direct line of sight, they pruned the tree(s) between them
- john cullen claims the first shot (green line in the scheme below) was shot from a tree and was aimed at the counter snipers in order to take them out
- in what he claims, the snipers had to be taken out before any other action could take place, but what he forgets is that the action took place anyhow, even in the presence of these 4 barn snipers…
- at 17:00 he shows the north barn snipers and you clearly see the sniper in the front getting backwards. if you compare this with the recoil of snipers using the exact same rifle, you will see that they are absorbing recoil from the shot they fired… I believe it is sheer nonsense that these people got scared or were surprised or were shot at…
- he uses the premature initial observations of what the media reporters say and builds his story around what they say… how could that tv reporter know that these snipers were aiming at the trees? she did not even see what had happened to Trump…
- he shows that he is not very scientific by claiming that the model he shows is even a 4D-model… by 4D he means that he can show the movement of people and objects, but that is still a simple 3D model and has nothing to do with 4D…
- he word salads with the term “kinetic event”
- as you may have noticed, I have not yet released ballistic trajectory information. the reason is very simple: I was looking for an indication of the actual wind speed at the exact moment the first shots were fired. john cullen makes the wrong assumption that the horizontal flag was representative for the time the shots were fired, but that is wrong! the actual position of the flag for the first 3 bullets is shown below…
- something that is very important to mention is that he has access to very high quality/resolution footage… e.g., the footage from RealDjStew he shows is the highest quality I have seen so far… image below…
- what he deduces based on the 1/10th speed is imho sheer nonsense: john cullen claims that there were subsonic rounds being fired from a within a tree, targeting the southern barn snipers. this allegation can be debunked with the footage of these snipers moments before the first shots were fired where they were positioning their rifles towards crooks, and there was no sign whatsoever that they had just been taking fire!
- he also claims that the frames with the “UFOs” are bullets that took out crooks, even before the first shots were fired. this claim is easily debunked with the simple observation that crooks was still alive while he was looking at the man with the Semper Fi-shirt near the trees…
so far feedback wrt the first 50 minutes of the 2h24m video 
in the following 2 images you see the perspective of David Dutch looking at Trump and the AGR building:
the actual flag position when bullets 1-2-3 were fired:
high resolution image from footage made by RealDjStew showing crooks in roof lane 20:
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Excellent point, Carpenter. Trump deserves our blind adulation. -rolls eyes-
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