If you thought former U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s “roof was too steep for snipers” excuse was a lame one—and it was—you’ll love Biden administration FBI Director Chris Wray’s excuse for how the would-be assassin got up on the roof “unnoticed” prior to shooting former President Donald Trump in the ear.
It seems the reason was that the AR-15 the would-be assassin used had a dreaded collapsible stock, making it easier to get on the roof with a rifle unnoticed.
“I can tell you, which may be relevant to your questions, that, um, and I don’t think this has been reported yet, that the [Trump assassin’s] weapon had a collapsible stock which could explain, uh, why it might have been less easy for people to observe,” Wray said. “Because one of the things that we’re finding is the first people to observe him with the weapon was when he was already on the roof and we haven’t yet found anyone with any first-hand observation of him with the weapon walking around beforehand. So that doesn’t mean he wasn’t, obviously, but the collapsible stock is potentially a very significant feature that might be relevant to that.”
Hmmm, so a man climbing up on a roof 150 yards from the stage where the former president was set to address the rally crowd wasn’t suspicious since all the people who had reported seeing the guy hadn’t actually seen him with a rifle until he was already on the roof? Right. And never mind that one law enforcement official prior to the suspect being spotted on the roof had already reported seeing him ranging the distance to the stage with a rangefinder. That wasn’t suspicious enough?
Nearly anyone with a brain knows that Wray scapegoating the collapsible stock is utter nonsense. When not extended, collapsible stocks on ARs only make the rifles about two inches shorter than when the stocks are extended.
A typical DPMS AR-15 with 16-inch barrel, like what the shooter used, is about 32 inches long. With the stock collapsed, the gun would likely have been 29 to 30 inches in length—not exactly what you’d call easily “concealable” when walking through a crowd and scaling a rooftop.
In truth, Wray was simply playing partisan politics with the shooting, trying to make it look like the Biden/Harris-run Secret Service hadn’t really messed up in letting the shooter get off several shots at Trump. That’s about par for the course for Wray.
In fact, just last week Wray was actually questioning whether Trump was, indeed, hit by a bullet.
“As I said, I think with respect to former President Trump, there’s some question about whether or not it’s bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,” Wray testified before Congress last week.
The FBI later reversed course, saying on Friday: “What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject’s rifle.”
The non-apology acknowledgement was met with a healthy dose of skepticism by the former president. In response to the statement, Trump wrote on Truth Social, “I assume that’s the best apology that we’ll get from Director Wray, but it is fully accepted!”
Fortunately, it’s likely we won’t have to be hearing any other nonsense from Wray come January. If Trump manages to pull out a victory over supposed Democrat nominee Kamala Harris, it’s likely Wray will be one of the first agency heads to go once the new administration gets into place.
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