Failed Trump Assassination Attempt

In his latest, Bongino takes apart SS criminal omissions and failures. He says a local team was supposed to be on the roof but the post was abandoned because - yeah, it was too hot. But he also shows an old (as I understand) clip showing the view from the room window with just a perfect view on the whole roof - so no excuse, they had the shooter in plain sight IF there was anyone in the room.

But, as Bongino explains, and it makes sense, the fact that the local team was supposed to be on the roof, it caused confusion and delayed the final sniper's decision to shot the assassin.

Plus a few best clips from Kim Cheatle sick testimony (she resigned, BTW) with his comments.

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In the hearing today, posted elsewhere on this thread, the claim was made that the two officers who would have been doing overwatch from the windows were BOTH out looking for "Crooks"
 
The only problem I have with the two windows below Crooks is that they appear to be rising shots. How could a rising shot hit the top of the rail behind Dutch? I thought it might be possible if the bullet hit the underside of the arm or something on the forklift holding the speaker array. Just curious if there's any audio of a hit from a redirect? I haven't heard anything myself even when I was listening for one.



Notice the person recording this video is to the right of the rail which means the spray is going out the back, not the side. The spray also looks a bit mushroomish. Easier to see what I mean in the video.

Here are a few frames from the lady's 3d animation in Approaching_Infinity's post with Crooks as the shooter. I know this is an approximation but it'll illustrate my thought.

Crooks' shots have a downward trajectory. But the two window's that are below Crooks' position (but not shown in the model) looks like a flat to slightly upward trajectory. The only place they could be redirected is from the forklift. But where could they hit to change the angle to ricochet the top of the rail?

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Now, I found this video from eleven months ago that looks specifically at the ballistics of ricochets. They use a .45 for the experiments but the info was still very interesting. The 15,000 fps slow motion was really neat to see what happens to the bullets when they hit and how they travel after. Watching what the pressure waves do to backgrounds is really cool. (14:47)


I think the angle of this bullet hitting the rail is so shallow it might be 20º or less. I don't think it ricocheted first which, I propose, it would have to if it was coming from one of the lower windows.

For 'fun', I found this video on snipers to be very informative. There's some garbage in there, but everything they talk about is what Crooks is not. (18:10)


I would need to check it more carefully myself but for me the angles looks about right so that it should be possible for a Sniper inside the building to do the first three shots. The rising bullet seems to me to be pretty much in line with Trumps head/ear, the railing, both injured people and the Telehandler.

Also, something else to take into account: A bullet will always follow a ballistic curve instead of a straight line. The amount of couverture in the ballistic curve is mainly determined by the speed of the bullet. The faster the bullet, the shallower the curve and vis-à-vis.

A number of other points to take into account:

At what point in the couverture the bullet hit Trumps ear is unknown. If the shooter was farther away or closer, that also changes the point within the couverture when Trump was hit. The longer the shot the slower the bullet becomes at the end of the curve, thus the curve increases. The rail, both injured, and the Telehandler, are quite some distance away from Trumps head. In addition, the trajectory of the bullet that hit Trumps ear was certainly affected, by how much we don’t know. We don’t know if the other 2 bullets were also redirected during flight.
 
Not sure if this has been posted with reference to the short positions, but both of these individuals are credible in my opinion, especially in this subject matter.
The way to check if an item has already been covered in this discussion is to search for a keyword (I chose "Austin" here) and select "this thread" in the drop-down menu next to it. Doing this I found this post about Austin Wealth Management from last Thursday.
 
New videos of SS and police on the roof, discussing things, including whether or not others individuals have been detained, and something about a guy on a bike. Not sure if that's a bicycle or a motorbike. There's another video of a girl talking about guy arriving on a harley davidson motorbike, not sure if that was posted here.

 
I was curious, so did a search for analysis of the attempted assassination in Russian, and it looks like there is nothing new, beside all kind of strange things that were noted right after the event. So there's that.

But I was also able to see Russian media talking about the CNN report about "three different weapons" that was posted on the 15th of July, and was also mentioned several times on this thread. But since I missed it the first time, I did some checking of my own, so apologies for mentioning the topic once again. I do have some questions that hopefully could be answered. Or please direct me to the relevant posts 🙏

Anyways, here's the quote again:
Forensic analysis suggests that as many as three weapons were fired at the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday.

The FBI said Sunday that the shooter acted alone.

The first three shots were consistent with alleged weapon A, the next five were consistent with alleged weapon B, and the final “acoustic impulse” was emitted by a possible weapon C, per audio analysis by Catalin Grigoras, director of the National Center for Media Forensics at the University of Colorado in Denver, and Cole Whitecotton, Senior Professional Research Associate at the same institution.

My first reaction was a surprise, because this news was reported by CNN. And as we know, CNN has an extremely poor record when it comes to reporting anything that goes against the mainstream agenda, and FBI at that point already denied that there were more shooters. So how come in this case CNN was the first and the main source to share something like this? On the other hand, maybe it's not a big deal if one doesn't equate "three weapons fired at Trump rally" with "three weapons fired at Trump".

That's essentially the line of defense that was taken by a "fact-checking" site called "Lead Stories". In the article they are debunking the claim that was shared on X that "Trump was shot with 3 different weapons".

They claim that they contacted the researchers by e-mail:

The audio researchers cited in the CNN article, Grigoras (archived here) and Whitecotton (archived here), told Lead Stories in an email received on July 15, 2024, that they "never claimed that the victim was shot with three different weapons" and that their work "just reported on how many acoustic impulses were present in the audio we analyzed." They added:

There are nine acoustic impulses, allegedly gunshots, that are grouped as follows:
1) Impulses 1-3 consistent with a source A (allegedly weapon A)
2) Impulses 4-8 consistent with a source B (allegedly weapon B)
3) Impulse 9 consistent probably with a source C (potential weapon C)

In the rest of the article they cite some further known facts, including this one:

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle stated in a news release published on July 15, 2024 (archived here) that the agency's counter-sniper team neutralized the shooter during the incident, which could explain why multiple weapons were reportedly heard in the audio recording.

Funny how the "fact checkers" allow themselves "coulds" when it fits them. :-D No hard data here, just an assumption on their part that "it could explain" why multiple weapons were supposedly heard, without having access to the acoustic findings and what kind of video the experts analyzed.

And also this one:

On July 13, 2024, the FBI and Pennsylvania State Police held a news conference (archived here) on the shooting, during which federal and state officials confirmed that multiple shots were fired during the rally. At the 26:05 minute mark, Kevin Rojeck (archived here), FBI special agent charge of the FBI's Pittsburgh Field Office, responded to a reporter's comment about several shots being fired, noting that it was "surprising."

But if this communication with the researchers is legit, they didn't share any data of the analysis beside further clarification on the "acoustic impulses". One would expect that they at least would mention on what video exactly they based their findings, or were these several videos? Hopefully at some point they will be questioned in public regarding their findings, and this is when they will share more hardcore data.

I also had no idea what "acoustic impulse" is, so did a Google search. Based on the information here, acoustic impulse response is:

The impulse response is in essence a recording of what it would sound like in the room if you played an extremely loud, extremely short click - something like the crack of a pistol shot. The reason for measuring the impulse response (by more subtle means than firing a gun in the room) is that it completely characterises the behaviour of the system consisting of the speaker(s) that were measured and the room they are in, at the point where the measurement microphone is placed.

There is a very detailed explanation about it in the link, and I don't fully understand it, but the article also says this:

Reflections from the room's boundaries add to the initial response at times that correspond to how much further they had to travel to reach the microphone - for example, if the microphone were 10 feet from the speaker and a sound reflection from a wall had to travel 15 feet to reach the microphone, that reflection would contribute a spike (smeared out depending on the nature of the reflection) about 5 ms after the initial peak, because sound takes about 5 ms to travel that extra 5 feet.

Ok, so considering the above, and if I understand it correctly, the same noise would sound differently from a different location. Meaning, that it could be problematic to ascertain how many different weapons were fired if listening to different recordings, because the videos or recording were taken from different locations and distances to the shots fired, right? Unless similar pattern of acoustic differences could be heard in different videos?

I mean, if in one video you stand in location x and record the sound of different bullets firing, they would sound differently if you were standing in location y. But the difference in the pattern of how different they sound would be the same, no? And if it is so, it is even more interesting to know on what kind of videos and recording the forensic experts based their findings. But maybe I am missing something?

If they compared several recordings and were able to hear a similar pattern, then this looks like a pretty good evidence. Then it would probably be a matter of establishing an exact timeline (if it would ever be possible) and know exactly when the snipers fired. And any shots that weren't fired by the police or secret service would be suspect.

Again, apologies if all of this was already discussed. I am a tad late to the "event". :-)

Added: I just saw the following article that says:

The gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania fired eight bullets in under six seconds before he was shot and killed by a U.S. Secret Service sniper, according to an analysis of footage from the event by two audio experts, video analysis by CBS News and sworn statements from Pennsylvania State Police.

In testimony on Tuesday at a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing about the assassination attempt, Pennsylvania State Police Col. Christopher L. Paris told lawmakers that eight casings were recovered from the gunman's location.

The only word I have to say is "fascinating"! :-D There is really a need for a detailed analysis by the researches that identified acoustic impulses from 3 sources.
 
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Could be, if it is not "free will" violation. But, what we don't know too much about free will parameters.

What if it's got something to do with knowledge protects and without anticipation? Trump has to have known that there was a good chance that someone would try to assassinate him given his stance and popularity, he probably also knows the ways that can happen including having a dodgy security detail. However, despite all that his free will choice is to hang around and MAGA. Without anticipation could be reflected by not getting hung up on the details of how or when the attempt might happen or how he will survive it. It seems to me that anticipation enters when there is fear - either fear of something happening or something not happening. So no matter the details that arise that might trigger fear, he just has to hang on to the choice that he's made. Or something like that.
 

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