@dangillmor I was questioning this shortly after the shooting and complaining about the lack of press analysis. The press is failing to due diligence of the truth. I have always called this an alleged shooting.
@tmstreet @dangillmor I mean, it's absolutely a shooting, and appears to be a legitimate assassination attempt, but shrapnel doesn't make his survival seem nearly as lucky/miraculous, so he lied.
I mean, the fact that I also can't reject the idea that he had a razor blade in his pocket and bladed himself for the sudden photo op is also a reason that something more official should be said.
@foxxtrot @tmstreet @dangillmor Captain Bonespurs wouldn't have the guts to cut himself, or the competence to do without either being obvious about it or, I dunno, cutting open his eye or something.
@draeath @tmstreet @dangillmor I dunno, dude spent some time around professional wrestling and REALLY loves to put on a show.
@draeath @foxxtrot @tmstreet @dangillmor But it was obvious! No blood as he ducked, blood when he came back up. And his ear is perfectly fine in close up, a day later. (photo is from a few days ago)
@Dss @foxxtrot @tmstreet @dangillmor heads up: this is disinformation. Check this post from 2017, the same photo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/08/04/trump-says-hes-been-working-hard-heres-the-current-status-on-things/
@foxxtrot @tmstreet @dangillmor that is the key "appears to be a legitimate assassination attempt"
Sometimes the razor doesn't cut it.
There are numerous scenarios that could be conjectured. The fact that Crooks searched on the Kennedy assassination defuzes most of them, to be fair.
The that first occured to me was that Crooks was supposed to have shot over the heads. USSS was in on it and only shot him when it was clear that he was such a bad shot he was shooting people.
The second was that the stories that he was bullied all the way through high school and he know many of his adversaries would be in the crowd and he was shooting it up to get at them.
All we have is the assumption it was an assassination attempt. Until we know his motive and if he was working alone, we know nothing...we are assuming.
One thing that I've seen in a couple of overseas articles is that acoustical data shows that there was a third gun. Who were they shooting at?
@Ralph058 @foxxtrot @tmstreet @dangillmor
There were two SS snipers on the roof. Both took shots, one from prone and one from a knee. They're visible in some of the footage.