The damage to the black hydraulic line mounted on the almost equally black lift cylinder can be seen just opposite to the leftmost digit “5” of the phone number starting with “855”, at least if you already know where to look for. Hopefully somebody could identify the type of the forklift and thus calculate an almost exact elevation.
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Any farmers or John Deere dealership folks out there that own one of these please chime in…
I think you are right.
The first photo, taken after the shooting where my red line terminates, shows a hose that looks to be just dangling there. Looks to be about 18 to 20 inches long. The next photo shows that to be about where you said.
Again I would appeal to anyone who knows Black Diamond Equipment Rental company to visit them and see what they can find out about the repair to that piece of equipment and measure the exact height of that bullet impact.
In relation to the new footage of the “muzzle flash” from the window of the building Crooks was on. I wanted to see if the sun could be reflecting. It appears that the sun was just beyond the corner of the building and doesn’t look like it was a factor.
More random thoughts: obviously something caused that hydraulic leak. That’s a lot of fluid at a pressure (100-200 psi?) generated by the load the cylinder was supporting. Having repaired my forklifts quite a bit (not a hydraulics expert), I find it a bit difficult to believe the residual energy of a ricochet or bullet fragment could cause damage to generate such a substantial leak. A direct shot to cause distraction? Probably nothing…
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In reference to the following “new video” - After slowing playback speed down to 25% I noticed strange anomalies with the 1st window to right of exhaust pipes:
- 4:27 - looped rope hanging at top of window
- 5:29 - officer shouts “get out of the way”
- 5:30 - someone shouts “he’s got a gun”
- 5:36 - first shot
- 5:40 - distortion, artifact, or fuzzy image of open window
- 5:45 - white dot progresses to flash to protruding cylinder looking image at various attempts to freeze frame.
- at 5:58, 6:30, 7:09 - no “looped rope” on top of window.
- 7:20 - “kill confirmed”
- 7:24 - officers checked first window to left of door, and appeared to be checking the others, but video cut away.
I have several other freeze frame images, but could only upload one as a new user.
Very good analysis using software that’s better than what I’ve seen used elsewhere.
He debunks shot coming from one window, but there are other windows he doesn’t consider in this video.
Near end he plots bullet trajectory from sniper on roof that Chris doesn’t think was bullet that killed Crooks.
(On the negative side, he says FBI stated there were 8 casings on roof, but FBI director in Congressional (or Senate) testimony said 8 cartridges, as Chris pointed out. Also, he makes fun of conspiracy theorists. But we can still learn something from his analysis in my opinion.
FYI, I’m still not convinced Crooks took any shots at all).
This video is 4-5 days old:
Distraction is always a possibility, since it appears like an elongated oddity that the projectile almost hit Trump, further on at least one visitor, then the handrail and subsequently a rather small structure with viewy consequences…
While I have no ballistic experience whatsoever, the velocity of a 5.56x45mm NATO projectile fired through a 16’’ barrel at a distance of about 160 m should still be around 600 m/s, translating to an energy of 720 Joule when a projectile mass of 4 g is assumed. Would this be enough to pierce the rather thin wall of a steel pipe?
On the other hand, the bullet probably passed body parts of at least one man, and even if the collision with the handrail was almost elastic (almost no energy loss), the overall deflection angle remains uncertain and hence the further path of the projectile.
Anyway, if anything was hit by a bullet, it was the pressure line going upwards along the black cylinder. This is probably a rather thin stainless steel pipe with an outer diameter of 10-20 mm (<1 inch) and a wall thickness of 1-2 mm (<1/10 inch).
I’m wondering more about the hydraulic scheme, since the pressure line going up to the end of the black lift cylinder should not have been under much pressure when the lift cylinder was in an extended position. But I’m not an hydraulic expert either.
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In the screenshot below the thin hydraulic line made of stainless steel I mentioned previously is clearly visible. The video itself was produced by a company named “s.news” (“Storyful News & Weather”) is interesting for another reason: because it is the only one showing Trump’s right side I’ve seen so far, and because it aborts shortly before the first shot.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3N6CV2owsY
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On the Trump assassination attempt starting with the trajectory of the “Trumps’ Ear Grazing” bullet (possible facts supporting HP1a #1):
Connecting a straight line from Trumps Head on the stage through Crooks position on the roof of “Bldg.6” and extending this line further backwards, a “second” shooter behind Crooks could have been on the roof of “Bldg.9-1”/“Bldg.9-2”.
What about this “Bldg.9-1” being the possible position for the “second” shooter?
That is only a 100m further back and with an average AR-15 bullet speed of 991m/s there is only a 0,1 sec difference between simultaneously fired bullets arriving at the target.
With Google street-view and google earth you can see that this rooftop can be accessed easily (
see attached picture from street-view).
South Eastern corner you may even borrow a ladder from the pickups seen in street-view LOL.
On the west-side of this building there are many places to scale onto this rooftop (see Google Earth).
A position on the rooftop of this building would be much less visible or noticeable by attendees within the outside security perimeter.
This location on Bldg.9-1 would have been ideal sniper position, because:
- it has multiple entry points and exit routes, (How would Crooks ever have gotten away from HIS shooting position?)
- it is on the outer periphery of the AGR building complex, (Less chance of being recorded or seen, you get in and get out)
- it is invisible to (obscured by trees in between) the two sniper teams positioned on the barn-roofs behind Trump,
- it is not easily visible by local police, ESU or other people from the adjacent AGR parkinglot,
- it is not easily visible from the windowed two-story building (I do not know the correct building number). Unless the ESU from the two-story building had a reason to even look towards Bldg.9-1 it would still have been very difficult to spot a sniper on that roof,
- it has enough elevation and a clear line of sight on Trump to take a successful shot,
- if using a comparable AR-15, but fitted with an adequate sniper-scope (and maybe even a (flash)suppressor), it would cover-up this “second” shooters’ existence,
- it then would have sounded like Crooks took all the shots, because all shots seem to come from the same direction, and would have had comparable sounds almost incidental.
Positioning and attention of ESU and local police were concentrated in and around “bldg.6” and as far as I have seen not anywhere near Bldg.9-1. Crooks positioned himself in a location where chances of being spotted were abundant either by security or attending public.
At the moment he seemingly fired his first shot he was already surrounded by security forces on all sides. So guaranteed no way out. And a lot of attention on Crooks as shown on video just before the first shots were fired.
We know that (all or a lot of) security focus was on Crooks’ whereabouts from the moment he was spotted near “Bldg.6” as suspicious.
We know that he was spotted by a lot of people. So nobody was looking at or in the direction of Bldg.9-1.
We have visual proof that Crooks’ shoulder did not jerk with the first shot.
We do not (yet) know if the difference in elevation between Crooks’ position and the possible “second” shooter’s position on Bldg.9-1 would make shot-alignments possible or impossible. In other words, can we match the known first three bullet-impacts and their incoming trajectory with this possible second sniper position on Bldg.9-1
In my opinion we can!
Question: Can we triangulate the shooters’ position relative to the position of the microphones based on the sound-recordings?
New location of USSS sniper.
Found at https://youtu.be/4mwSoRdb_xs?si=i-GtTwuYR8ttFnYA
Shown at timestamp 9:18
Photo of location: https://imgur.com/a/gBv6QmN
This information may have already been posted, but I didn’t see it. In the video released by Senator Chuck Grassley, there appears to be evidence of gunshot scorch marks (for lack of a better term) across the ridge cap of Building 6 at AGR. There appear to be several of these marks that align with the body of Crooks in one of the metal roof panels. These marks can be seen at several points in the video, but probably best at 12:42 of the video labeled part 2 (total time length of 13:49). The resolution of the video that I watched was not adequate to be able to count the number of shots fired over the ridge cap. Perhaps a higher resolution video is available. I will include a still shot I was able to grab from the video.
By the way, Crooks’ body appears to be located in panel number 20 from the east end of the roof. I believe that to be about 39’ from the end, if the metal panels are 2’ wide. I might also mention that his head appears to be about 5’ from the nearest point of the ridge cap. I thought it peculiar that his rifle appears to be located 4 roof panels (approximately 8’) to his left. Am I the only one who finds it odd that the gun would be that far away from him? Especially given that he was shooting right-handed. Would the first responders move the gun away from him?
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In a NYT video last week (& in the recently released TMZ video), I noticed that the bleachers had the name “Speedy Bleachers” on the end. I found a factory design drawing of those bleachers showing the dimensions. Although the drawing doesn’t actually show the exact height, I accurately re-created it with CAD (45 yrs professional drafting experience, 25 yrs with CAD) to determine the height at the top of the railing to be 11’ 2 1/2". I know that the terrain at the Farm Show site is not flat or level and the only topography that I have available is Google Earth which appears to indicate that the elevation at AGR Building 6 is 1337’ on the southern side of the building at the point of alignment between Crooks’ rooftop location and President Trump’s stage. Google Earth indicates that the ground elevation at the stage is 1338 and at the location of the bleachers where Dutch and Copenhaver were hit is 1336 to 1337. The top rear railing of the bleachers is 11’ 2 1/2" above the ground, however, loading and uneven terrain would likely affect that height. My CAD drawings reversing the trajectory indicate that at least the first shot came from the south side of Building 6, below the bottom edge of the roof, but not as low as a window. In the helmet cam video released by Senator Chuck Grassley, I noticed that the interior of Building 6 has a dropped ceiling. That area between the ceiling and the roof could have concealed a second shooter. In the realDJStew724 video released yesterday, I noticed several vents (one louvered) in the southern outside wall of Building 6 above the window levels that would have been in perfect alignment for a second shooter. I realize that this scenario is not likely, but it is a possibility. I sincerely hope that thorough surveys were done before the stage, etc. was removed so that the actual height of where the bullet struck the bleachers, as well as the height of the stage were documented for the investigation.
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Continuing along your line of thought (“Connecting a straight line from Trumps Head on the stage”) it may help rule in, or out, various scenarios. This is Pr. Trump’s posture/head position as a bullet impacts his upper right ear lobe:
Trump’s line of sight to his right, tightly focused on one of the two large display screens that are constructed above the two bleachers, establishes a tight parallel aligned with the trajectory of the bullet coming from his right:
Interestingly, a line of trajectory drawn from Trump’s podium, directly through the center of the display screen points to the water tower:
Pr. Trump’s head angle is a precise clue. The official narrative, and several of the surrounding buildings could be ruled out, as a bullet trajectory that far to the left of Trump’s line of focus would have impacted his skull first. This approach may also shed light on where bullet fragments impacted.
I am not a conspiracy theorist that is why I come here. Chris is very pragmatic. I do however have some questions that are nagging me.
Who is this man, he is a camera man, that supposedly was a shooter, also he was killed. 2 Questions: 1. Where is his body? Where is the casings?
Does anyone have a picture of Matthew Thomas Crooks that shows his arms, because the shooter on the roof most definitely has a defined tattoo. This is very odd. Also, is Crooks the second shooter, if he was, where was he? If he was, is he still alive, if he is where is he? If he is alive he might could answer all our questions.
This is a weird video and I have slowed it down several times, and I cannot figure out what is in the ESU persons
hand. If you look you will see there is a very large tattoo on his arm.
https://x.com/i/status/1818065162164728316
The cameraman pic has kept me awake I’m not going to lie. Although it has been showed that he was killed, but where is the body.
Also I have not seen where any one has mentioned this as a possibility and it may have nothing to do with it but it seems suspicious, and this person is close to the age of the camera man and it could explain the muffled sound of the gun shots. This man also unexpectedly passed and was a mechanical engineer that could have made the bombs?
https://www.geibelfuneralhome.com/obituary/Andrew-Dulya
You all let me know what you think. The obits was actually the first thig I thought of morbid I know.
Y’all let me know your thoughts.
In my earlier post regarding the possibility of a second shooter using the crawl space above the ceiling in Building 6, this frame grab from the realDJStew724 video shows 4 of the vents above the top of the windows. Additionally, there is a small patch (?) in the metal paneling on the left side of the vent on the far right side of the image, circled in red. Certainly if one of these vents were used, gun powder residue would be present.
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