Failed Trump Assassination Attempt

[Approaching Infinity]

Maybe this was covered earlier, but I learned from this latest Martenson video that Nicols (who had supposedly left his post in the second floor of the building behind Crooks "to look for Crooks," thus presumably went outside the two-storey building) in fact emerged from inside the building Crooks was on just under 2 minutes after the shooting.

Yeah, a bunch of the researchers now want a detailed accounting of Nicol's whereabouts.

I think Martenson made an assumption though. I don't think anyone has explicitly claimed that Nicol was outside the building when the shots were fired, just that he wasn't at his sniper position. The Beaver after-action report shows him leaving building #6 to tell the guys on patrol outside the building about Crooks before the shooting (18:06 to 18:12).

• 18:06 – 18:12:
– [Greg] goes downstairs of building 1 to meet patrol to let them know suspect is around building on side of fairgrounds
• 1 Marked vehicle and unmarked vehicle pull in together [visible in the body/dashcam videos subsequently released]

The after-action report even seems to place Nicol in building #2 (the third one back) at the time of the shooting. Then there was the rumor (given to Hawley, I believe) was that he had to be let back in by his partner. Both those accounts imply he was back inside the building when the shots were fired.

 

[Approaching Infinity]

Here was Chris Martenson's X post from within (can't read it all due to formatting):

https://twitter.com/x/status/1824184537192259913

Here are the points I found interesting from the report:

• According to my investigation, USSS had never, prior to J13, assigned a counter-sniper team to a former POTUS, including Trump. I will not be 100% certain of this assertion without further investigation into documented records, but USSS counter-sniper teams stated clearly to ESU Command that they had never been deployed to a former POTUS event, nor had they heard of a prior deployment by other USSS counter-sniper teams.

In the discussion between Martenson and Melton from a week or two back they mention that the SS special agent in charge was the woman who had trouble holstering her gun, and that she was the one who pushed to get countersniper teams for the event.

• USSS did not retrieve the radios that had been set aside for them by Butler County tactical command.
• Radio traffic transmitted through a County Radio tower 911 Center is recorded. Chairman Kelly and I have a timeline and transcripts of all local radio traffic, as provided by ESU Commander Lenz.
• There are videos circulating on the internet that appear to show a “muzzle flash” from inside the AGR building, from the window below Crooks’ firing position on the roof of the AGR building. I carefully examined this window inside and out, and I interviewed the AGR employee who has worked in that small office area for many years. That window does not open and has never opened. The “muzzle flash” from inside that window was either a digital fabrication or an iPhone light or iPhone camera flash reflected from the glass of the widow.

At this point it looks like it was a reflection off the headlights of one of the police cars parked between the fences.

• Crooks did not have a ladder at AGR on J13. He accessed the roof by climbing onto an air conditioning unit. I reenacted his climb with no problem.
• The 9th shot fired on J13 was from a Butler SWAT operator from the ground about 100 yards away from the AGR building. Shot 9 hit Crooks’ rifle stock and fragged his face/neck/right shoulder area from the stock breaking up. The SWAT operator who took this shot was a total badass; when he had sighted the shooter Crooks as a mostly obscured by foliage moving target on the AGR rooftop, he immediately left his assigned post and ran towards the threat, running to a clear shot position directly into the line of fire while Crooks was firing 8 rounds. On his own, this ESU SWAT operator took a very hard shot, one shot. He stopped Crooks and importantly, I believe the shot damaged the buffer tube on Crooks’ AR. I won’t be certain of this until I can examine Crooks’ rifle, but I’m 99% sure, based upon reliable eye-witness ESU tactical officers who observed Crooks’ rifle before the FBI harvested it as evidence. This means that if his AR buffer tube was damaged, Crooks’ rifle wouldn’t fire after his 8th shot.
• Crooks “went down” from his firing position when shot 9 was fired, and the SWAT officer was certain of his hit. According to the ESU SWAT operator, Crooks recovered after just a few seconds, and “popped back up”.
• The FBI released the crime scene after just 3 days, much to everyone’s surprise. I interviewed several First Responders who expressed everything from surprise to dismay to suspicion regarding the fact that the FBI released the crime scene so early after J13.
• The FBI cleaned up biological evidence from the crime scene, which is unheard of. Cops don’t do that, ever.
• My effort to examine Crooks’ body on Monday, August 5, caused quite a stir and revealed a disturbing fact… the FBI released the body for cremation 10 days after J13. On J23, Crooks was gone. Nobody knew this until Monday, August 5, including the County Coroner, law enforcement, Sheriff, etc. Yes, Butler County Coroner technically had legal authority over the body, but I spoke with the Coroner, and he would have never released Crooks’ body to the family for cremation or burial without specific permission from the FBI. [...] this action by the FBI can only be described by any reasonable man as an obstruction to any following investigative effort. Please note, Mr. Chairman, that on J23, the day that Crooks was cremated, both the Homeland Security Committee and the Oversight Committee had begun House Committee jurisdictional investigation into J13, and Speaker Johnson had already stated that he was forming an Official Congressional investigative body. Why, then, by what measure, would the FBI release his body to the family for cremation? This pattern of investigative scorched earth by the FBI is quite troubling.
• It should be noted that my initial investigation on the ground in Butler was greatly assisted by the County Tactical team’s commander and the head investigator for the Butler County DA’s office. Those gentlemen had nothing to hide, and they were 100% accommodating despite my rather intense demands on their time and resources due to the compressed schedule I was working with.
• ... my professional assessment for the purposes of this preliminary investigative report is that the Butler County ESU performed quite well under the circumstances.
• The owner/top management of the business, AGR, stayed with me and the 2 County investigators for 3 hours as I covered every inch I needed to inside/outside/on rooftops/climbing AC units, etc. He was very helpful and 100% squared away. I recreated every step of the County tactical team that was inside and every movement of Crooks outside. Examined every window, etc. It was long and hot, and the AGR exec stayed with us. No area was restricted in any way.
• The water tower ladder was never lowered that day.
• I’m not saying conclusively that there was no other shooter somewhere or that no other conspirators were involved in J13, but I’m saying that based on my investigation thus far, there were 10 shots fired on J13, and all shots are accounted for, and all shots align with their source. Crooks’ 8 shots (3 plus 5), ESU SWAT 1 shot, USSS southern sniper team 1 shot.

 

[Approaching Infinity]

Greg Nichols (not to be confused with Greg Nicol), who I mentioned in my time difference post, has made a video with the latest results of his time difference of arrival analysis. It shows that when you triangulate the recordings from different locations, and account for the movements of the cameras that are moving during the shots (like Dave's), you get a small cluster (within 1 meter) for the location of the first 8 shots:

His previous video had errors, so the results were skewed, but he explained his method:

 

[Voyageur]

Edit: forgot to post, that Chris Martenson does ask some good questions. As for Beaver Butler Sniper, I'm sure whoever he was will inevitable come out. There are indeed some movement timelines to answer for.

The Beaver Country sniper was Greg Nicol. The internet doesn't know who the Butler Country sniper was. As an aside, this is the Country that had custody of Crook's body which has now been cremated.... before a second autopsy could be done. Weird.

My bad, corrected.

 

[Ellipse]

Greg Nichols (not to be confused with Greg Nicol), who I mentioned in my time difference post, has made a video with the latest results of his time difference of arrival analysis. It shows that when you triangulate the recordings from different locations, and account for the movements of the cameras that are moving during the shots (like Dave's), you get a small cluster (within 1 meter) for the location of the first 8 shots:

His previous video had errors, so the results were skewed, but he explained his method:

So admitting all the calculus are right this time, the next question is: From inside the building, is there a window in sight from those points?

 

[Approaching Infinity]

So admitting all the calculus are right this time, the next question is: From inside the building, is there a window in sight from those points?

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Not according to the following:
-trajectories are inconsistent (unless we want to propose a "magic bullet" theory) - windows are too either too low to account for the first bullet hitting Trump's ear and the railing of the stands; or too high and to the west (from the local sniper building)
-according to Higgins's report, "That window [the one that guys like Cullen thought shows "muzzle flash"] does not open and has never opened."
-if the shots were fired from within the building, the sound would escape from the window, and I'm pretty sure TDOA would not be able to triangulate them with any degree of accuracy to the point they were fired from within the building (and no one reported shots that sounded like the came from within a building)

 

[Ketone Cop]

The rabbit hole generator spit this out recently, some stuff about Maxwell Yearick that seems interesting. I haven't seen it posted here yet, so thought I'd leave it here for posterity.

It's probably just noise meant to distract and confuse, but maybe there's a few clues there.

Maxwell Yearick is Missing Since Trump Rally – Assets Magazine

www.caclubindia.com

 

[Cosmos]

A few more details here

https://twitter.com/x/status/1824379146828439937

That’s a really interesting observation which is probably right on the money IMO. It also explains a lot of things, especially the question of how Crooks was able to get there in the first place.

 

[Voyageur]

Mike Benz explains how easy it is to keep 'special ops' under government control from start to finish, and notes that the three pipe-bombs Crooks is supposed to have built would almost certainly have to have been done with the assistance of US government agents.

(digression warning)

After listening, one might conclude that Nikki Hailey had a seriously bad hair day after the iconic miss.

While on presidential nomination campaign:



After the shooting (and true):



From not so far back in time in the London Free Press (noticed this was written by Gwynne Dyer, who at one time had been and still is, a prolific historian writer on war and future scenarios (one on India/Pakistain, Iran is more obvious, and always Russia is in there). Don't be fooled, Dyre is a Russophobe through and through):

She has warned he is “more unstable and more unhinged” than he was during his first term in the White House. When Trump implicitly urged Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to attack any NATO member who fails to meet the two per cent target for defence spending, she told him: “Don’t take the side of a thug who kills his opponents.”

And she knows her defiance of Trump will be welcomed, secretly, in many parts of the Republican Party: “Many of the same politicians who now publicly embrace Trump, privately dread him. They know what a disaster he’s been and will continue to be for our party. They’re just too afraid to say it out loud.”
[...]
If Trump is convicted of a criminal charge or becomes incapacitated, many of his apparent supporters in the party would seize on that pretext to drop him from the ticket, partly because they loathe him but mainly because they think he will lose them the election.

They won’t move against Trump unless a viable alternative presidential candidate is available, however, and Haley is that candidate. That’s why the money keeps flowing to her campaign even though she hasn’t got a prayer of winning.

Past tense, and yet she will always be wishful and must now curry favor with Trump (as do others).

The rabbit hole generator spit this out recently, some stuff about Maxwell Yearick that seems interesting. I haven't seen it posted here yet, so thought I'd leave it here for posterity.

It's probably just noise meant to distract and confuse, but maybe there's a few clues there.

Maxwell Yearick is Missing Since Trump Rally – Assets Magazine

www.caclubindia.com

Not sure if you had seen Approaching Infinity's original response, in terms of the picture?

The inclusion of that picture of Yearick by Callesto is disinfo though.

 

[Voyageur]

Greg Nichols (not to be confused with Greg Nicol), who I mentioned in my time difference post, has made a video with the latest results of his time difference of arrival analysis. It shows that when you triangulate the recordings from different locations, and account for the movements of the cameras that are moving during the shots (like Dave's), you get a small cluster (within 1 meter) for the location of the first 8 shots:

The analysis of initial microphone sound (multiple sources) and receiving microphone sound time as discussed by Nichols, also relies on a consistent bullet velocity back to a fixed point, is that right? If so, this is said to account for the 8 shoots from that fixed position?

 

[Approaching Infinity]

The analysis of initial microphone sound (multiple sources) and receiving microphone sound time as discussed by Nichols, also relies on a consistent bullet velocity back to a fixed point, is that right?

Nope, it assumes decelerating bullets using manufacturer specs for velocity at various distances.

If so, this is said to account for the 8 shoots from that fixed position?

All that analysis of that type can give on its own is a rough distance from the microphone - in any direction. It can't distinguish between shots fired 150 yards from the north and shots fired 150 yards from the south, for example, or shots from two different rifles fired from right next to each other. Depending on what other evidence or assumptions are added, the possibilities can be narrowed down. For example, information about known trajectories suggests roughly a north to south trajectory, ruling out shots from most directions (Cosmos did a few posts on this). The time differences between sounds are all very close to each other (212 to 221 milliseconds), and consistent with either the same rifle firing all 8 shots, or multiple rifles (same type and ammunition) all firing from along the same trajectory and from within 6-7 meters of each other. On its own it is inconclusive, but when looked at together with other analyses (like trajectory and TDOA), they all are all consistent (so far) with each other that all 8 shots came from a relatively fixed position. Basically, time difference gives a range of distances, trajectory gives a rough idea of height and line of sight, and time difference of arrival gives a narrower range of location within those limits.

 

[Voyageur]

Basically, time difference gives a range of distances, trajectory gives a rough idea of height and line of sight, and time difference of arrival gives a narrower range of location within those limits.

Just to narrow this down then, one variable, let's say going back to the fist 3 shots that still keeps it in the sound distance range as the next 5, is possibly a bullets velocity and distance it is fired from i.e. adding distance and higher velocity might still keep it in the time analytical range "(212 to 221 milliseconds)" of the next 5 shots based on sound? Trajectory is another thing.

Don't know if that is a plausible variable, just airing it to dispel or otherwise further think on.

 

[Approaching Infinity]

Just to narrow this down then, one variable, let's say going back to the fist 3 shots that still keeps it in the sound distance range as the next 5, is possibly a bullets velocity and distance it is fired from i.e. adding distance and higher velocity might still keep it in the time analytical range "(212 to 221 milliseconds)" of the next 5 shots based on sound? Trajectory is another thing.

Don't know if that is a plausible variable, just airing it to dispel or otherwise further think on.

Not sure if I understand the question, but I think the answer is yes. For example, for a time difference of 0.221 seconds:
-an AR15 firing 5.56s from a 16-inch barrel would be 136-160 meters away
-a 20-inch barrel firing 7.62s would be around 175-180 meters away

 

[Voyageur]

Not sure if I understand the question, but I think the answer is yes. For example, for a time difference of 0.221 seconds:
-an AR15 firing 5.56s from a 16-inch barrel would be 136-160 meters away
-a 20-inch barrel firing 7.62s would be around 175-180 meters away

Yes, thank you, that is where i was going with it.

It seems that the point(s) (the one put up by Nichols around Crooks firing location), is based on sound interval of the rifle and the velocity of the round fired - milliseconds. The only way to change the point(s) would be a different rifle and round with a different velocity.

 

[Ketone Cop]

Not sure if you had seen Approaching Infinity's original response, in terms of the picture?

Yes, I did. I posted that link in any case because at the least it gives us a few more names of people NOT to follow for information. Plus there are some interesting things posted there about Yearick I felt worth sharing - if true. And I think it's good to keep on top of the "disinformation train" before it gains steam and runs things off the rails. That article has morphed a lot since it was first posted a while back.