'What is the point of a raised fist with blood running down your face
shouting “fight, fight, fight” if you are going to compromise?'
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: “The fact that [the Secret Service] allowed a rifle armed shooter
within 150 yds to a preplanned event is either malice or massive
incompetence.” — Security expert Erik Prince, Navy Seal and founder of
Blackwater
One of the most puzzling aspects of the near assassination of Donald
Trump on the Secret Service’s watch is the shooter’s expectation to find
the buildings within the protected area unoccupied by Secret Service
and no agents guarding the sniper positions on the buildings.
It is very unusual that an intended assassin would expect to be able
to appear with a rifle in a protected area and not be accosted. In
other words, it reeks of the smell of a stand down.
Here is the Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti’s comment:
“The assassination attempt on Donald Trump is surprising only because
it happened on July 13, and not earlier — a year, three or eight years
ago. The upstart, who challenged not only most of the American
establishment, but also the ‘Washington swamp’ as such, has risked his
head very much all these years… It is clear that now the ‘swamp
denizens’ are biting their elbows because they did not think to kill
Trump before November 2016: they underestimated the threat, did not
believe in the reality of his victory.”
