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[Gwin Ru]

...

... thinking, over, under, around, out of... :

... so, why would Trump's "associates" get rid of a professional security detail and replace them with CentralCasting "amateurs"?

My guess is that a professional security detail, at the first sign of threat, Trump would have been hogtied to the ground and quickly shoved horizontally into his armored SUV... no negotiation, no discussion, no "Wait, wait, wait!"... zoom you go! That's their Pavlov's hound training.

Instead we have these absolutely, totally, 100% incongruent argument about shoes and climbing up of the melée to clamor a "Fight, fight, fight!" on sales as sneakers less than 24 hours later... as directed by the movie director himself.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Gwin Ru (here)
... so, why would Trump's "associates" get rid of a professional security detail and replace them with CentralCasting "amateurs"?

My guess is that a professional security detail, at the first sign of threat, Trump would have been hogtied to the ground and quickly shoved horizontally into his armored SUV... no negotiation, no discussion, no "Wait, wait, wait!"... zoom you go! That's their Pavlov's hound training.

Instead we have these absolutely, totally, 100% incongruent argument about shoes and climbing up of the melée to clamor a "Fight, fight, fight!" on sales as sneakers less than 24 hours later... as directed by the movie director himself.

All except Trump, the "real" sniper, who made the "better deal" with Trump to miss, and a couple of Trump's closest Secret Service body guards, were doing what the Deep State planned, with the ordinary, trained and equipped Secret Service security removed from Trump, replaced by a mixed bag of agents from several local, country, state and federal agencies, who had inadequate coordination, planning, communication, or mission specific training.

This was the usual Deep State operation, with one (or a few) "good" snipers taking shots from hidden locations, and one brain washed "patsy" sniper taking shots from a prominent location, while ordinary proper security was pulled back from the protectee.

Meanwhile Trump, his couple of closest security agents, and (also unbeknownst to the Deep State) the assigned "real, professional" sniper were working a different script.

Trump found out about the assassination plot ahead of time and made a "deal" with the real sniper: "You kill Trump; you die. You miss Trump, and we'll protect you.". Meanwhile Trump had a little blister of stage blood behind his right ear, and his closest security agent had a sharp tool to more prominently damage Trump's ear with real injury, shedding more, real, blood.

Thus Trump turned (a long anticipated) assassination attempt into a sting operation on the Deep State operatives who were trying to run yet another such operation.

Trump and his closest agents knew that it was absolutely vital, after the shooting, as soon as the roof patsy was known to be down, that Trump demonstrate to the public that he was alive and vigorous, before being hustled off. It's all too easy for a protectee to die later, behind closed hospital doors, whether or not he actually incurred fatal wounds.

Both sides needed a strong and conclusive display of results. One wanted an exploding head on live TV. The other wanted a vigorous fist pump in the air and a "Fight, fight, fight" shout. Both sides were determined that there be zero doubt, by the time that the ambulance left the scene, what the outcome was.

Trump, in particular, absolutely could not trust the main stream media to honestly report his condition, or even if he was still alive, once he had left the scene. There must already be zero doubt in the public mind.

[SilentFeathers]

Posted by T Smith (here)

Posted by SilentFeathers (here)
Even after Trump was almost recently killed due to Secret Service's blatant failures, they don't seem to be protecting him any better.

https://x.com/susancrabtree/status/

EXCLUSIVE and BREAKING: During a Donald Trump visit to North Carolina yesterday, a woman Secret Service special agent abandoned her post to breastfeed with no permission/warning to the event site agent, according to three sources in the Secret Service community.

Shortly before Trump's motorcade arrival -- I'm told five minutes beforehand -- the site agent was getting ready for the arrival. (The site agent is the person in charge of the entire event's security.)

The site agent went to do one final sweep of the walking route and found the agent breast-feeding her child in a room that is supposed to be set aside for important Secret Service official work, i.e. a potential emergency related to the president.

A working agent on duty cannot bring a child to a protective assignment. The woman was out of the Atlanta Field Office.

The woman agent was in the room with two other family members.

The agent and her family members bypassed the Uniformed Division checkpoint and were escorted by an unpinned event staff into the room to breastfeed, the sources said. Unpinned means they have not been cleared by the Secret Service to be there.

When contacted about the incident, Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the incident did not have an impact on the event. and it's under review.

"All employees of the U.S. Secret Service are held to the highest standards," he said. "While there was no impact to the North Carolina event, the specifics of this incident are being examined. Given this is a personnel matter, we are not in a position to comment further."

I'm curious how something like this gets reported. If I am reading this story right, the site-agent caught one of their own out of protocol, away from her post and breast-feeding her child? This seems almost unbelievable, if not surreal. I wouldn't expect this degree of incompetence from employees at a fast food restaurant. But if it really happened, what happens next after the site agent in charge discovers this breech? I'm assuming the SS agent is reprimanded, relieved of duty, or fired, but how does the incident get leaked? With all the hot water the SS is in these days, it seems like they would put a lid on an incident like this and button it up air tight to avoid the embarrassing scrutiny. Or is this kind of information a false story leaked deliberately to prepare the public for "another incident?"

Sometimes it seems like the information itself is part of the psyop.

in any case, if I were Donald Trump I would be beefing up my own private security.

I thought at first this was satire or just fake news. But, Susan Crabtree has a good reputation for being quite honest and thorough with her reporting.

As for the breastfeeding agent in question? Hell, she probably got promoted to lead agent for the advance team.

[Hermoor]

This screenshot was taken from Odysee's footage of the train wreck Mills/Goodman interview. The timeline is very similar to that of the interview footage on BitChute.



If you're really keen on photography and/or researching the Butler rally, then Mills' purported RAW files are an intriguing rarity. The files may be everything he has in his archive folder (every single image he took) or the files may have been edited down selectively into contact sheet format. That's another potential avenue of research in itself.

The RAW files shown by Mills in the interview run from 00972 to 01307. There are hundreds of them. A RAW file is like an original film negative. In theory they are totally unedited.

Pretty much every image we see from the media is in JPEG/JPG or PNG format. This means they have been edited from an original RAW file. It is rare for pros to shoot in anything other than RAW. Sometimes they might use RAW and JPEG, but the RAW file is a given constant. RAW files can be edited in many ways. You're essentially taking the whole photo all over again with a computer instead of a camera. JPEGs can only be edited in a few ways.

.arw files are Sony's proprietary RAW files. Nikon's, for example, are .nef. Mills' shared files run from DSM00972.ARW (at 6:02:38 PM) to DSM01307.ARW (at 6:10:39 PM).

According to Mills this is the RAW file we've all seen the image from:



Give or take, this is the highest resolution of the edited image we've all seen in the media:

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PP...Df3hq7H82h.jpg

Hmmm. There's an awful lot going on in this interview. Lots of awful is just the start of a long trail.

The original media image is purported to be at a resolution of 2474 x 1474. So it's heavily cropped down from the original 50MP resolution of 8640 x 5760.

This is an important point. The crop totally changes the intended composition and framing of the original image. Arguably it totally changes the intended meaning Mills was endeavouring to capture and convey.

Mills was using a state of the art Sony 24mm f/1.4 fast prime wide angle lens. This one:

https://www.kenrockwell.com/sony/len...-f14.htm#intro

The RAW original aspect ratio was 3:2. Mills uses it as such (horizontally/landscape) before the incident started. Just before the incident started Mills changed to a vertical/portrait/ 2:3 aspect ratio.

If he was genuinely in on capturing a bullet/contrail/Trump's head taking a gory wound, then he's done a very good job of disguising it. His entire set up was wrong for it.

His entire set up seems best suited to an image that would please a lot of freemasons. His original composition and framing wasn't very square, so to speak, but it went heavy on the compasses. The symbolism is obvious for those with eyes to see. The all seeing eye of the world is on the American flag. Boaz and Jachin are even getting a prominent showing.

Arguably from the distance Mills was at a standard lens or a telephoto lens would have been used if he was expecting Trump to take a gory head wound from a bullet. The composition and framing would have been significantly different without telegraphing the fact that he was expecting it.

I've barely scratched the surface in this post.

For now I'll just leave you with a couple of little curiosities. The first one might not amount to a hill of beans, but the number 777 featured very heavily in Mills' RAW archives.

The second one is quite funny, at least for me. Behind Jason Goodman is a framed, wall mounted piece of sh*te, ahem, "art" featuring Bill Clinton.



The image was owned by Jeffrey Epstein. Doug Mills won his second Pulitzer prize for Associated Press's coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.

These turds all swim in the same toilet bowl. It's really something.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=P7SFyHoS7Ik

Several of the many comments on this Youtube video speak of one of the vents, above the windows, in the side of AGR Bldg #6 facing Trump, being awry at the time of the shooting, then being closed properly shortly thereafter.

The way those comments are written, I'm pretty sure their authors really did see such an awry vent there, though I've yet to notice and find such an image or video myself.

If that is so ... that one of those two vents above those Bldg #6 windows was open during the shooting and closed right after ... then that fits my current working hypothesis quite well and adds more credibility to it.

And if that "second" (actually, "first") shooter was Greg Nicol, he wouldn't even have to hide or sneak his rifle out, after shooting towards (give or take) Trump, for Greg was a Beaver County sniper assigned to be in those buildings with his sniper rifle at that time.

[SilentFeathers]

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=P7SFyHoS7Ik

Several of the many comments on this Youtube video speak of one of the vents, above the windows, in the side of AGR Bldg #6 facing Trump, being awry at the time of the shooting, then being closed properly shortly thereafter.

The way those comments are written, I'm pretty sure their authors really did see such an awry vent there, though I've yet to notice and find such an image or video myself.

If that is so ... that one of those two vents above those Bldg #6 windows was open during the shooting and closed right after ... then that fits my current working hypothesis quite well and adds more credibility to it.

And if that "second" (actually, "first") shooter was Greg Nicol, he wouldn't even have to hide or sneak his rifle out, after shooting towards (give or take) Trump, for Greg was a Beaver County sniper assigned to be in those buildings with his sniper rifle at that time.

The Stewart video does show those vents right before the shooting and they appear closed. He kind of shows them when the woman on the horse walks by and then pans them again right around the time bullets start flying. One of them does appear to be slightly cracked open a bit but it may just be a shadow.

Also, there is a photo that's been shown several times of one of the sniper rifles on the second floor that appears to have its barrel removed. Oddly, a little while after the shooting a LE officer looks to carry a rifle barrel out of building 6 and leans it against the rail and then another operator strolls along in a very suspicious manner and takes the rifle barrel and walks away with it. This is highly weird and suspicious looking in my opinion. This whole ordeal with a rifle missing a barrel in one building and then what appears to be a rifle barrel being removed from another building absolutely has me puzzled.

Greg Nichol does seem very suspicious and has extremely weird behavior from right before the shooting and after the shooting. Something is definitely off with this dude. If he actually is the 2nd shooter it may be possible that he never went through with it for some reason. I just don't see any where he could of took the first 3 shots from. I'm still thinking its quite possible Crooks was going off script and possibly compromised the whole plan without even knowing it. Could be why Greg was acting so weird.

More of my "just speculating" of course but the more time goes by the more videos and other information is being released for us to chew on.

It almost seems like even the coverup is being extremely poorly handled. I suppose when you have a bunch of deranged idiots trying to pull off something like this and fail, all your left with is a bunch of deranged idiots trying to cover it up.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by SilentFeathers (here)
It almost seems like even the coverup is being extremely poorly handled. I suppose when you have a bunch of deranged idiots trying to pull off something like this and fail, all your left with is a bunch of deranged idiots trying to cover it up.

Good point.

[mountain_jim]

https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/1824306115209056260

BREAKING: Trump Shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks’ Body is GONE — the Body Was CREMATED Just 10 Days After Trump’s Assassination Attempt

— Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) August 16, 2024



https://x.com/MJTruthUltra/status/1824232140600496342

MJTruthUltra
@MJTruthUltra
UPDATE: Trump Assassination Attempt

Disturbing Facts Revealed in a 6 Page Investigative Report which Found Crooks Body was Cremated — And Nobody knew he was Gone!

• Rep Higgins tried to examine crooks body on August 5, and was surprised to learn the FBI released the body back to the parents.
—— Nobody Knew he was gone until August 5, Including the County Coroner, law enforcement, and the Sheriff.
—— he was cremated on July 23, just 10 days after the Assassination Attempt

The Coroner technically had custody over the body and denies ever giving the FBI the authority to release the body.

Now, “we will never actually know”

This is suspicious as hell!

https://clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-con...rt-8.12.24.pdf

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by mountain_jim (here)
This is suspicious as hell!

Yes.

And by the way, we do not suspect hell. We know.

[Gwin Ru]

...

... question for the ballistic savvy peeps:

Mike Adams and others determined the time gap between the "crack" and the "thump" at stage microphone to average at around 0.22 second for the first three shots. Then he/they take 3000 f/s for an average velocity of an AR 15 bullet, therefore:

(3000f/s = 914.4 m/s = 1000 y/s) X 0.22 ===> 660 feet = 201.17 meters = 220 yards radius for the location of the gun's muzzle from the microphone.

So, how do these people [CNN] can settle for this:

As can be noted, the fudging of numbers and ascertained culprit was already well on their way by the following day.

And, according to Cullen, Crooks was pinned at 475 feet away from the stage.

Me think that approximating that sharp closing of the vacuum created by the bullet to the sudden filling in of the vacuum generated by a lightning bolt remains fairly accurate when one counts the seconds it takes to hear the thunder for an estimation of how far that lightning struck...

[mountain_jim]

Believe this is an updated version of part of my post above

https://x.com/MJTruthUltra/status/1824451919357567309

MJTruthUltra
@MJTruthUltra
BOMBSHELL: Trump Assassination Attempt

10 Shots were Fired in Total and the FBI Cleaned up Biological Evidence from the Crime Scene — “COPS DON’T DO THAT EVER!”

• According to rep Higgins, Shot 9 was taken by a ‘Swat Operator’ 100 Yards away
—— when he saw Crook’s moving on the AGR rooftop, mostly obscured by foliage, he immediately left his post and ran towards the threat, to a clear shot position… “on his own… this ESU Swat Operator took a very hard shot, one shot.”

• Crooks was believed to be down, but a few seconds later, Crooks recovered and “popped back up”.

• the 10th and final shot was taken by a Secret Service Sniper by the “Southern Sniper Team”

🔴 THE FBI RELEASED THE CRIME SCENE PREMATURELY

• the FBI prematurely released first responders that evening

• the FBI prematurely released the crime scene after only 3 days

• MOST DISTURBING— the FBI cleaned up Biological Evidence from the Crime Scene — “Which is unheard of. Cops don’t do that EVER!”

[mountain_jim]

https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1824484881382117874

Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
BREAKING: Newly released bodycam footage from the Butler, PA rally shows police officers losing it, slamming the Secret Service for ignoring their requests.

Holy sh*t.

"I f**king told them they needed to post the guys f**king over here... the Secret Service... I told them to post f**king guys over here," an officer was heard saying.

"What the f**k? I wasn't even concerned about it because I thought someone was on the roof," another officer said.

"Why were we not on the roof?"

The newly released footage also showed a new angle of Crooks' body on the roof.

The USSS is a total joke.


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roons
@YeohKengJee
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1h
WARNING: Gets graphic at about the 5:00 mark.
I don't know which is worse. That #CommieKamala can't s#00+ a man under 200 yards away, or that they can't cover it up any better than this. #InsideJob

[mountain_jim]

Discusses how HSI within DHS, which provided help at this event due to Secret Service staffing issues, could have recruited the shooter at the gun range where DHS was known to train, and set him up with the knowledge and tech for the communications, drone, pipe bomb manufacturing, etc.

How HSI could have conducted the whole inside job themselves.

https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1824514887533686891

Kyle Becker
@kylenabecker
This is a GREAT supplement to the points raised in this article. I highly recommend the watch, if you haven't seen it yet.

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Kyle Becker
@kylenabecker
·
Aug 14
The Trump assassination rabbit hole goes deeper than you think.



https://x.com/SaveUSAKitty/status/1824475034703868322

Dan Bongino @dbongino asks Whistleblowers to find him with any information they may have in the President Trump assassination plot:
💥 “Here’s the question…keep it real simple…who the hell was Crooks working with⁉️ Who⁉️ Maybe he wasn’t working with anybody…I doubt that‼️who the hell was he working with and why is everybody hiding⁉️Folks…sh*t is getting weird, OK. REALLY weird. And I’m going to be the one to first call this out. I’ve got people talking to me left and right…there is something going on here…Find me, Whistleblowers…FIND ME‼️” 💥

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by SilentFeathers (here)

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)
Several of the many comments on this Youtube video speak of one of the vents, above the windows, in the side of AGR Bldg #6 facing Trump, being awry at the time of the shooting, then being closed properly shortly thereafter.

The way those comments are written, I'm pretty sure their authors really did see such an awry vent there, though I've yet to notice and find such an image or video myself.

The Stewart video does show those vents right before the shooting and they appear closed. He kind of shows them when the woman on the horse walks by and then pans them again right around the time bullets start flying. One of them does appear to be slightly cracked open a bit but it may just be a shadow.

Also, there is a photo that's been shown several times of one of the sniper rifles on the second floor that appears to have its barrel removed. Oddly, a little while after the shooting a LE officer looks to carry a rifle barrel out of building 6 and leans it against the rail and then another operator strolls along in a very suspicious manner and takes the rifle barrel and walks away with it. This is highly weird and suspicious looking in my opinion. This whole ordeal with a rifle missing a barrel in one building and then what appears to be a rifle barrel being removed from another building absolutely has me puzzled.

Greg Nichol does seem very suspicious and has extremely weird behavior from right before the shooting and after the shooting. Something is definitely off with this dude.

I was just listening to a two week old video from Tore, of ForbiddenKnowledge.tv, on the failed assassination attempt on Trump.

When I watched the videos, weeks ago now, of people yelling that there was a shooter on the roof, just before the shooting began, I didn't have a solid map of the area hot wired in my brain.

Now I have far too many neurons devoted to that map ... and it's rather obvious to me that the shooter on the roof (Crooks or whomever) they are seeing is more on the west side of Bldg #6's roof, not on the east side where his famous bloody corpse was located, afterwards.

There was one window that was open in the AGR buildings facing Trump's rally ... the second story window in the two story AGR building, just to the north and west of Bldg #6. Greg Nicol and whomever his erstwhile sniper partner were setup, as snipers, in that window.

We're told that first Nicol's (not yet publicly named) partner left their sniper overwatch position, and then that Greg himself left it, just before the shooting began.

What if Greg didn't leave it? What if he used his already setup sniper rifle to get off those first three shots, that would sound more muffled (from being shot inside a room) to a recording taken outside that building, in the field just west of that two story building?

That would make the "crack-boom" delays of those first three shots, when recorded at Trump's microphone, just a wee bit longer (given same bullet muzzle velocity) than the next five rapid shots, if those five shots came from the patsy (Crooks or whomever) on the roof.

Indeed, those first crack-boom delays were a wee bit longer, 0.22 versus 0.216 seconds, as carefully analyzed earlier on after the assassination attempt. That discrepancy in delays, showing whether the first three, or second five, shots were closer to Trump's microphone, has been a key discrepancy that I've been unable to make sense of, while I've been looking for an open window or vent, in Bldg #6, beneath and in front of, the patsy's corpse on the eastern part of that roof.

If it was Greg (or his partner, I have no way of guessing which at this point) who shot those first three shots, at or in the direction of Trump, perhaps deliberately missing a kill shot, perhaps unintentionally missing such, from their already setup sniper position from the open window of the two story AGR building, then that might also explain the strange exchange of rifle barrels, later on ... removing some hot evidence.

Such a scenario seems to imply a bit of patsy corpse shuffling or moving about, right after the shooting, before the local/county/state law enforcement gets on the roof to be recorded by one of their helmet mounted cameras. There were already hints of such shuffling on the roof, earlier in this analysis, but insufficient evidence ever arose to nail anything down. Rather the crime scene on the roof was carefully hosed down, and the patsy corpse (Crooks?) was quickly cremated by FBI direction. We'll almost certainly never know; but we'll almost certainly always suspect.

In any case, I'm modifying my scenario:

The "real" (skilled professional) shooter of the first three shots shot from the already setup snipers nest through a well known open window in the second story of the two story AGR building behind (a wee bit further from Trump) the infamous patsy (Crooks or whomever) on the roof of Bldg #6, and that "real" sniper was either Greg Nicol or his partner.

[SilentFeathers]

This report has a bunch of crucial info in it.

About the video;

Jeff Ostroff Analyzes this bombshell congressional report issued August 15th, 2024, by Congressman Clay Higgins who is part of the Donald Trump shooting task force that has a lot of valuable details related to the shooting of Donald Trump at his rally in Butler PA on July 13th 2024. This report also talks about other issues such as the Secret Service not picking up the radios at a meeting that would have allowed them to communicate to the local Butler command police departments and swat teams. This devastating oversight may have helped prevent any lives from being lost if they had radios in their hands and they would have heard about the suspicious person on the roof sooner. The Secret Service Hercules 1 Snipers would have had time to react and possibly even prevent Trump from coming out on the stage. At least the Secret Service detail could have surrounded Trump and removed him from the stage once they found out there was an armed shooter on the roof of the AGR building, but there wasn't enough time they did not get enough advanced notice.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=af_K1oGfljM

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by SilentFeathers (here)
This report has a bunch of crucial info in it.

About the video;

Jeff Ostroff Analyzes this bombshell congressional report ...

The cover-up continues. The Congressional Task Force on the Attempted Assassination with which Jeff opens his report subsumes and replaces any and all other Congressional investigations into this attempted assassination.

Step one in any cover-up -- concentrate all investigation and collect all evidence in a single place, the better to control it.

Step two -- in line with the "accepted public narrative" (a single patsy shooter from the roof, in this case), present evidence of sufficient incompetence, negligence and "dog at my homework" excuses to explain what happened and to distract any independent investigations and considerations, while keeping the lime light off any of the serious perpetrators and their masters.

[Bill Ryan]

Live right now, Chris Martenson is going through the explosive report by Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) which was referenced by Jeff Ostroff just above. A link to the whole (preliminary) report is here:

• https://clayhiggins.house.gov/2024/0...igative-report

The Top Four Inexcusable Investigation 'Errors' by The FBI

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8mJ84w5Itks

Edit to add:

MUST SEE, guys — there's new information here.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by SilentFeathers (here)
Jeff Ostroff Analyzes this bombshell congressional report issued August 15th, 2024, by Congressman Clay Higgins

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Live right now, Chris Martenson is going through an explosive report by Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA).

Looks like Clay Higgins is getting plenty of press coverage.

[SilentFeathers]

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)

Posted by SilentFeathers (here)
This report has a bunch of crucial info in it.

About the video;

Jeff Ostroff Analyzes this bombshell congressional report ...

The cover-up continues. The Congressional Task Force on the Attempted Assassination with which Jeff opens his report subsumes and replaces any and all other Congressional investigations into this attempted assassination.

Step one in any cover-up -- concentrate all investigation and collect all evidence in a single place, the better to control it.

Step two -- in line with the "accepted public narrative" (a single patsy shooter from the roof, in this case), present evidence of sufficient incompetence, negligence and "dog at my homework" excuses to explain what happened and to distract any independent investigations and considerations, while keeping the lime light off any of the serious perpetrators and their masters.

They're having a difficult time covering their tracks. Like I said earlier, deranged idiots are hard at work. This report does have some damning evidence and info in it pertaining to "cracks in the coverup".

[SilentFeathers]

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)

Posted by SilentFeathers (here)

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)
Several of the many comments on this Youtube video speak of one of the vents, above the windows, in the side of AGR Bldg #6 facing Trump, being awry at the time of the shooting, then being closed properly shortly thereafter.

The way those comments are written, I'm pretty sure their authors really did see such an awry vent there, though I've yet to notice and find such an image or video myself.

The Stewart video does show those vents right before the shooting and they appear closed. He kind of shows them when the woman on the horse walks by and then pans them again right around the time bullets start flying. One of them does appear to be slightly cracked open a bit but it may just be a shadow.

Also, there is a photo that's been shown several times of one of the sniper rifles on the second floor that appears to have its barrel removed. Oddly, a little while after the shooting a LE officer looks to carry a rifle barrel out of building 6 and leans it against the rail and then another operator strolls along in a very suspicious manner and takes the rifle barrel and walks away with it. This is highly weird and suspicious looking in my opinion. This whole ordeal with a rifle missing a barrel in one building and then what appears to be a rifle barrel being removed from another building absolutely has me puzzled.

Greg Nichol does seem very suspicious and has extremely weird behavior from right before the shooting and after the shooting. Something is definitely off with this dude.

I was just listening to a two week old video from Tore, of ForbiddenKnowledge.tv, on the failed assassination attempt on Trump.

When I watched the videos, weeks ago now, of people yelling that there was a shooter on the roof, just before the shooting began, I didn't have a solid map of the area hot wired in my brain.

Now I have far too many neurons devoted to that map ... and it's rather obvious to me that the shooter on the roof (Crooks or whomever) they are seeing is more on the west side of Bldg #6's roof, not on the east side where his famous bloody corpse was located, afterwards.

There was one window that was open in the AGR buildings facing Trump's rally ... the second story window in the two story AGR building, just to the north and west of Bldg #6. Greg Nicol and whomever his erstwhile sniper partner were setup, as snipers, in that window.

We're told that first Nicol's (not yet publicly named) partner left their sniper overwatch position, and then that Greg himself left it, just before the shooting began.

What if Greg didn't leave it? What if he used his already setup sniper rifle to get off those first three shots, that would sound more muffled (from being shot inside a room) to a recording taken outside that building, in the field just west of that two story building?

That would make the "crack-boom" delays of those first three shots, when recorded at Trump's microphone, just a wee bit longer (given same bullet muzzle velocity) than the next five rapid shots, if those five shots came from the patsy (Crooks or whomever) on the roof.

Indeed, those first crack-boom delays were a wee bit longer, 0.22 versus 0.216 seconds, as carefully analyzed earlier on after the assassination attempt. That discrepancy in delays, showing whether the first three, or second five, shots were closer to Trump's microphone, has been a key discrepancy that I've been unable to make sense of, while I've been looking for an open window or vent, in Bldg #6, beneath and in front of, the patsy's corpse on the eastern part of that roof.

If it was Greg (or his partner, I have no way of guessing which at this point) who shot those first three shots, at or in the direction of Trump, perhaps deliberately missing a kill shot, perhaps unintentionally missing such, from their already setup sniper position from the open window of the two story AGR building, then that might also explain the strange exchange of rifle barrels, later on ... removing some hot evidence.

Such a scenario seems to imply a bit of patsy corpse shuffling or moving about, right after the shooting, before the local/county/state law enforcement gets on the roof to be recorded by one of their helmet mounted cameras. There were already hints of such shuffling on the roof, earlier in this analysis, but insufficient evidence ever arose to nail anything down. Rather the crime scene on the roof was carefully hosed down, and the patsy corpse (Crooks?) was quickly cremated by FBI direction. We'll almost certainly never know; but we'll almost certainly always suspect.

In any case, I'm modifying my scenario:

The "real" (skilled professional) shooter of the first three shots shot from the already setup snipers nest through a well known open window in the second story of the two story AGR building behind (a wee bit further from Trump) the infamous patsy (Crooks or whomever) on the roof of Bldg #6, and that "real" sniper was either Greg Nicol or his partner.

This is possible. Greg's behavior is beyond strange considering what was going on and all.

Also to note, Greg did not have to go outside to get from the second story window room to walking out the front door of building 6 as these buildings are connected.

What's odd though is with all those people down on the ground near those open 2nd story windows, not one of them claim to hear shots coming from one of those windows. The first 3 shots sounded unsuppressed to me but slightly muffled as possibly being shot through a window. I think the sound would of been quite obvious to those on the ground to be coming from that window instead of from Crooks position. Perhaps no one noticed though.

The musical chairs with the rifle barrels does seem odd and somewhat criminal when it comes to "tampering with a crime scene" IMO. There's no logical reason for a sniper rifle in the 2nd story window position to be missing a barrel and also no reason for a rifle barrel only to be removed from the scene right after the shooting.

I'm still leaning towards Crooks firing all 8 shots. But, if there was a 2nd shooter regardless if he fired or not, I would bet money that Greg Nichol is somehow involved in knowing about this 2nd shooter or actually being the 2nd shooter.