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“I have one job and that’s to beat Donald Trump,” Joe Biden told Democrat donors on July 8. We’re done talking about the debate. It’s time to put Trump in the bullseye.” Five days later at a rally in Pennsylvania, a roof-top gunman – undetected by the Secret Service – fired a shot that wounded presidential candidate Donald Trump and would have killed the former president if he had not suddenly turned his head.
Democrats had previously attempted to imprison Trump, drive him into bankruptcy, and have his name removed from state ballots. The Democrats also compared Trump to Hitler, portrayed him as an existential threat to democracy, and attempted to deny him Secret Service protection. According to coincidence theory, there could be no progression from these hostile measures to the assassination attempt on July 13. From the start, establishment media played it down.
Fox News and CNN reported “loud bangs” at the Trump rally, and according to CBS News Trump “says bullet struck his ear,” so the shot was just another Trump claim to “fact check.” For the Sacramento Bee, Trump was “fine” after “shots fired at stage during Pennsylvania campaign rally.” So the stage was the target, not the former president of the United States. It was as though Lee Harvey Oswald had targeted the Lincoln convertible, not president JFK in particular.
For the Associated Press, Trump was “injured,” as though some accident had occurred, and it was only an “apparent assassination attempt.” The FBI joined the investigation, and according to the New York Times, the bureau was trying to determine “whether an assassin’s bullet — or potential debris — grazed former President Donald J. Trump’s head, bloodying his ear.” In all the confusion, the House Judiciary Committee requested testimony from FBI director Christopher Wray.
“With respect to former President Trump, there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,” testified Wray, who was never an FBI agent. No word whether any shrapnel was involved in the death of Corey Comperatore, or “potential debris” in the wounds to David Dutch and James Copenhaver. According to coincidence theorists, this was not an attempt to downplay what was clearly an assassination attempt.
Wray’s “shrapnel” statement was hard to top but FBI deputy director Paul Abbate said the shooter’s motive was “still not clear.” This was not an attempt to minimize the reality that, to all but the willfully blind, the shooter’s motive was to kill Donald Trump.
The FBI bosses brought along no ballistics or firearms experts and no profiler revealed whether Thomas Matthew Crooks had been on their radar. According to coincidence theory, the secrecy had nothing to do with the FBI hiding evidence about the shooter, as in the murders of DNC operative Seth Rich and DNC whistleblower Philip Haney. In those cases, the FBI has yet to announce suspects.
Biden Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle was unable to explain how a 20-year-old with no tactical experience was able to gain a clear shot at Trump. Cheatle claimed the gently sloped roof so easily accessed by the shooter was a “safety factor” and wanted a 60-day investigation before revealing any details. Cheatle knew how many shell casings were found on the roof, but would not reveal the number. For coincidence theorists, this stonewalling could not be an attempt to hide the truth about the assassination attempt.
Cheatle resigned and acting SS director Ronald Rowe told a Senate panel he wanted to determine “if there was more than one person who perhaps exercised bad judgment,” but no agent should be “unfairly persecuted.” Sen. Josh Hawley wanted to know how many people Rowe had fired. Rowe wasn’t saying, and he wouldn’t provide names of SS agents in key posts on July 13. According to the prevailing theory, this was all coincidental and could have nothing to do with any coverup.
Joe Biden, who said it was time to “put Trump in the bull’s eye,” directed Department of Homeland Security boss Alejandro Mayorkas to assemble an “independent security review” of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on July 13. The reviewers included Janet Napolitano, a curious choice.
During her stint as Obama’s Department of Homeland Security boss, Napolitano expunged the word “terrorism” from the DHS lexicon and purged experts showing the connection between terrorism and Islamic jihad. On Napolitano’s watch, the DHS put out Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment, a sweeping indictment of those who champion limited government, individual rights and the Constitution.
Napolitano claimed that the border was more secure than ever when it wasn’t, attacked state efforts to step up enforcement, and ridiculed the idea of a border wall. Her tenure at DHS, said Sen. Jeff Sessions, was “defined by a consistent disrespect for the rule of law.” For coincidence theorists, Mayorkas’ inclusion of this partisan Democrat signaled no intent to downplay or cover up the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. The inclusion of Bush officials Frances Townsend and Mark Filip, along with Maryland State Police superintendent David Mitchell, supposedly makes for a bipartisan review but the people have cause to wonder.
A congressional task force has been assembled to understand what went wrong, ensure accountability, and “prevent such an agency failure from happening again.” In the meantime, it’s all about memory against forgetting.