The events of July 13

The events of July 13th are literal history. The attempted assassination of a former President at a packed campaign event, the killing of a supporter who died protecting his family, and another two supporters seriously wounded. Trump is alive by the literal Grace of God, as had his head been turned more to the front, exposing the side of his head, he would not be with us.

The shooter was killed almost immediately, but not after he had murdered one innocent and seriously wounded two others, and shot a former President. He managed to access and crawl along a roof on a building giving a clear field of fire approximately 125 yards away from the speaker’s dais. While the shooter was still crawling to his shooting position, several went to LE near the building where the shooter was to report his presence. Just before the shots were fired by the shooter, people can be heard screaming “He has a gun!”

As reported in the Gateway Pundit and WPXI-11, Pittsburgh, a police officer of Beaver County’s Emergency Services Unit (ESU–SWAT) had seen, taken pictures of and reported the shooter on the roof a good 30 minutes before the assassination attempt. Prior to that, another police officer allegedly saw the shooter on the ground and reported him as a ‘suspicious person’. No action was taken in either case. A third police officer climbed up to the roof after being told by attendees of the presence of a man with a rifle, but had retreated when the shooter pointed his rifle at the officer. The shooter immediately started shooting upon the retreat of the officer.

I think that it will be determined that the attempted intercession of the third police officer caused the shooter to shoot quickly, before he had a solid head shot.

The shooter’s unfettered access with a rifle to that roof in view of attendees, some of whom alerted law enforcement, law enforcement that failed to take aggressive action says that either this was the luckiest fool in the world, or that his access was set up ahead of time.

Surely, the shooter knew that his was a one way trip–too close, no exit after the shot, or was he promised that he would survive? Did he think that he could just stand up and put his hands up and not be shot?

The 300Win mag to the head by the Secret Service sniper was the answer to that, and the end to “loose ends”.

To the Secret Service’s credit, for months prior, the campaign and the Secret Service assigned to Trump had asked for additional manpower for these events. Each request had been denied by DHS Secretary Mayorkas and/or Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle. Congress has already called for appearances by both and the FBI to explain why the failures in security.

The Secret Service had identified in their planning stage for the campaign event that the building roof that the shooter was on was a threat location that needed security. The Secret Service now says that local law enforcement had that responsibility.

The big question is, why were there no armed law enforcement on that roof and adjacent buildings, and around the perimeter of that area to deny access? How was the shooter seen and not acted upon aggressively by the Secret Service and PA state and local law enforcement?

Had they done so, Saturday would have just been another peaceful, awesome, packed MAGA event.

Now comes the micro-examination of the shooter’s life, family, medical and mental health histories to try to figure out what motivated a 20 year old American to act as he did.

Those in influential positions cannot continually yell “fire” in a crowded room, call for outright violence against the opposition and not have a deluded acolyte step up to get their few minutes of notoriety.

I guess we will see how all of this develops over the next few weeks. One thing is sure, the opposition to Trump is willing to commit murder to stop his run for the presidency.

Today, the 15th of July, there was also very good news. Federal Judge Eileen Cannon dismissed the lawfare documents case against Trump. It seems that she found the law and facts demonstrated that ‘special prosecutor’ Jack Smith was not lawfully appointed and used federal funds without the authority to do so in his prosecution of Trump and others. About time.

Almost $1M had been raised by Trump since Saturday night for the families of the man killed and the two wounded.

Larry Wood is a 70-year Alaskan living on Lazy Mountain.