Speaking to Fox News following the attempted assassination Saturday of former President Donald Trump, Israeli Special Ops veteran Aaron Cohen may have said it best.
“God must have been watching down on the president,” he said. “Snipers are typically trained to shoot into the cerebral cortex of the cerebellum at the top of the brain stem. It incapacitates you; it keeps your hands from moving… It’s about the distance of the shot. One hundred-thirty yards. That’s a putt. Anyone can put a two, two, three (.223), optic on a target from that distance and hit it. It’s not a difficult shot to make…”
Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, has been identified by law enforcement authoritiesas the attempted assassin. Since last evening, his home has been raided and already federal law enforcement and the media are doing a deep dive on who this misfit is, whose bullets grazed the president’s right ear, killed an innocent rally attendee and wounded two others, before Secret Service snipers took him out with a shot to the head.
Crooks had apparently crawled on top of a manufacturing plant an estimated 130 yards away from where Trump was speaking, a situation that has many security experts baffled as to how a man with a rifle could have openly crawled atop a building, got in position to shoot, and fired four to five shots at a crowded presidential rally before security neutralized the threat.
One self-described eyewitness interviewed by the BBC said he and his friends saw the man climb on top of the building, rifle visible, and tried to alert police who seemed “like they didn’t know what was going on” according to the man.
“We could clearly see the rifle,” the unidentified man said. “I was like, why is Trump still speaking why have they not pulled him off the state, I’m standing there pointing at him for like two or three minutes, Secret Service is looking at us from on top of the barn. I’m pointing at that roof, just standing there like this, and next thing you know, five shots ring out.”
He suggested Secret Service snipers may not have been able to see the shooter initially from the angle of the roof, but added, “Why is there not Secret Service on all of these roofs here? I mean this is not a big place.”
That’s a question a lot of people are asking and some important people are going to be asking. Crime scene investigators were still on the ground in Butler, Pennsylvania, where the assassination attempt took place and already a congressional oversight committee was demanding a hearing with Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle.
And already, conspiracy theories were flying on both sides of the political spectrum—left-leaning voices suggesting the assassination attempt was part of a right-wing plot to make Trump a hero, right-leaning voices alleging Biden had Trump’s security detail reduced to allow something like this to happen. None of the allegations have been founded in any way and for his part, President Joe Biden spoke with Trump in a conversation that was said to be one of concern and respect and then publicly decried the violence and said he was glad Trump was okay. World leaders were also quick to denounce the violence and wish Trump well.
Trump, miraculously, turned his head as he spoke as one of the would-be assassin’s bullets grazed his head when it struck his hear. Trump seemed to swat at his head, note the blood on his hand and dropped to a squat as Secret Service agents swarmed him. Then, in what has already become the most iconic image in election season history, as agents whisked a bloodied Trump off stage, he raised his fist to the crowd and mouthed the words, “fight, fight.” The images captured of the moment have the U.S. flag waving in the background.
Wall Street already says the incident has raised Trump’s chances of winning the presidency, while entrepreneurs on social media were quick to capitalize on the moment and were already selling t-shirts with the image on various platforms.
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