It is still hard to grasp the reality of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. It is clearly a miracle that he was not killed. No one is even pretending that this is an acceptable result.

Predictably the Biden Administration rushed to the microphone saying: “Trust us, we will investigate this.” However, the weaponization of the DOJ and the FBI makes it impossible to trust anyone connected to the Biden administration.

We already know things about this incident that are impossible to reconcile. We are told this was a one off, this 20-year-old disturbed man got his hands on an AR15 and took a shot at Trump. Nothing to see here. Just this guy and he is dead. End of story.

One of the most important considerations in investigating is to pay attention to people who lie. In this case we already know the Secret Service has lied. We were told that local law enforcement was responsible for security in the area where the gun man was located. That was not true. Local law enforcement was assigned to traffic control.

We were told that the roof was too steep to allow Secret Service agents access. This roof is so flat that Joe Biden could probably manage it.

How did this young man pull this off? This is about sixty miles from his home. How would he know where to set up for his kill shot. Incredibly, there is video of him walking around, with a backpack and a range finder, about an hour before Trump took the stage. He bought a five ft ladder from Home Depot on his way to the scene. How did he know he would need that? Is it possible that this untrailed youth managed to scout out the area, in less than an hour, identify a potential sniper nest ignored by the Secret Service and get a shot off at Donald Trump? Seriously?

Yet so far there is no evidence of him having any help. And we are reminded not to assume malice when mere incompetence is a satisfactory explanation.

There reports of a man, on that roof, with a rifle, but the only response was for a Secret Service shooter to take a picture of him. Local law enforcement tried to take a look. Not with a ladder, but rather with one officer standing on another officer and trying to pull himself with his fingertips so he could see over the edge. What he saw was a gun pointing at him. He then, predictably, fell and hurt himself. Is this how the Secret Service responds to reports of a man with a gun? They didn’t necessarily need to kill him but they absolutely should have removed Trump from that stage.

There are reports of Secret Service assets withdrawn from Trump to support Jill Biden and Kamala Harris. Who made that decision? Is our Secret Service really this inept, was this just all the protection they felt Trump needed or deserved or was it something more sinister. By any measure, this isn’t even close to being acceptable.

All we know so far is that we don’t know. In the meantime, regardless of why this happened, the result was to elevate Donald Trump to a whole new level. The problem for Democrats was that people can’t get over the sight of Joe Biden during that debate. A new and bigger problem is that people can’t get over the sight of Donald Trump, standing there with his fist raised, with a bright blue sky behind him and an American Flag completing the scene. Good luck with convincing people that this is an existential threat to our democracy.

TDM