Roger Stone: CNN never covers Trump rallies live — why were they at his assassination attempt?

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There are still far too many unanswered questions surrounding the near-assassination of former President Donald Trump — and Roger Stone has some new questions to add to the pile.

“Why would CNN, which never covers any of his rallies live, why were they there? Why is there a very high-paid freelance photographer shooting with super high-speed film, who ... can see the image of the bullet flying by his head? Why were they there?” Stone asks Alex Stein of “Prime Time with Alex Stein.”

“I find that extraordinarily suspicious,” he continues.

Stein is also especially suspicious of what may happen at Trump’s upcoming events and rallies.

“I think they’re going to try and take out Donald Trump again. So what is he going to do or change if he’s running his campaign knowing that he has a target from, I would say, the Deep State, maybe the Secret Service, maybe CIA, maybe FBI, who knows? But it’s obvious they don’t want him to become president again,” Stein says.

Stone doesn’t have an answer, but he does believe that Trump “might still be a target.”

“I think he’s very stoic about it,” Stone says. “He was spared through the grace of God for a reason. Jesus Christ has a purpose for Donald Trump, and the purpose is to save the country.”

“We have to continue to pray for safety,” he adds.


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JD Vance SLAMS Kamala Harris, demands answers in Trump shooting investigation

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The Democrats claim there’s a “bold vision” for America behind Kamala Harris’ run for the presidency, but Glenn Beck and vice presidential candidate JD Vance don’t think it’s a new, noteworthy, or good one.

“You have the entire Democratic campaign running on a kind of collective amnesia where they say that Kamala Harris will do this thing on day one, or Kamala Harris has a vision to accomplish that thing, and then you realize Kamala Harris has been the vice president for three and a half years,” Vance tells Glenn, adding, “she has affirmatively made all of these problems worse.”

Kamala has overseen the open border, though Democrats claim she’ll secure it. Kamala has overseen the explosive inflation that’s destroying the middle class, yet she claims she’s here to help the middle class.

“This is just not something that the American people buy,” Vance says.

“If you’re an American citizen, you’ve paid attention to this election, you’d be forgiven for having a headache from the ricocheting message of the Democratic Party. A month ago, it was, ‘The Biden economy was great, don’t believe your lying eyes, just vote for Joe Biden,’” he continues.

“Now it’s, ‘Yes the economy is terrible, but Kamala Harris, who’s been vice president for three and a half years, is going to come in and fix the whole thing.’”

Meanwhile, her opponent, former president Donald Trump, narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, and the administration that she is very much a big part of has not done a thorough investigation — as there are still so many questions not answered.

“It’s been a month,” Glenn says to Vance. “Are you and president Trump satisfied with the investigation and the way it’s going and the information that we have and haven’t gotten?”

“No, certainly not,” Vance responds. “This is frankly on Congress, it’s on Chuck Schumer’s United States Senate, and it’s on the Biden administration to get to the bottom of what mistakes were made.”

“If I’m looking at this from the perspective of America’s citizens, I’d be demanding that Kamala Harris, who’s the vice president of the United States, actually gets to the bottom of this and empowers her government to do a real investigation,” Vance continues, adding, “That has just not happened yet.”


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BREAKING: Secret Service FAILED to warn Trump of threat — AGAIN

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An Arizona sex offender who allegedly threatened to assassinate former President Donald Trump was arrested after a three-day manhunt, dangerously close to where Trump was speaking about the border crisis.

The man, Robert Lee Syvrud, is a registered Democrat who had apparently been posting threats on the Republican presidential candidate's life online.

“You would think given the Thomas Crooks fiasco, obviously the Secret Service would have alerted Donald Trump to this particular situation right?” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” asks.

“Not so fast,” she adds.

As Trump addressed reporters at the border in Arizona, one reporter asked if he was aware of the situation.

“In this county, somebody made death threats to you. Did you hear about that before coming, and what are your thoughts coming down here?” the reporter asked.

“I’ve heard it’s dangerous, but I also have a job to do. I heard it’s very dangerous, I haven’t heard about that. They probably want to keep it from me. Thank you for telling me, let’s get out of here right now,” Trump responded, drawing laughs from the crowd.

“He is just so good at this,” Gonzales comments.

Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” isn’t surprised this keeps happening.

“Will this ever be a little clue to the Democrats that maybe you stop demonizing this man as much as you are?” he asks, adding, “I mean the rhetoric that they spew about him, of course there’s crazies looking to do harm to Donald Trump.”


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Would-be Trump assassin's rampage ended when SWAT hit his rifle with a bullet, report says

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Would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks' wild rifle assault on former President Donald J. Trump and a Pennsylvania rally crowd July 13 was ended by a “total badass” SWAT operator who hit Crooks' rifle with a bullet from ground level 100 yards away, U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) said.

Crooks, 20, was “fragged” in the face when a Butler County Emergency Services Unit SWAT operator fired at him from ground level and blew apart his rifle's stock, Higgins said Aug. 15.

In a report to the bipartisan House task force investigating the attempted assassination of former President Trump, Higgins credited the SWAT operator with ending Crooks' attack after eight shots — about 10 seconds before a police counter-sniper shot and killed Crooks. A source earlier told Blaze News the counter-sniper shot was fired from 448 yards southwest of Crooks' position.

“Shot 9 hit Crooks’ rifle stock and fragged his face/neck/right shoulder area from the stock breaking up,” Higgins wrote. “The SWAT operator who took this shot was a total badass. When he had sighted the shooter Crooks as a mostly obscured-by-foliage moving target on the [American Glass Research] rooftop, he immediately left his assigned post and ran towards the threat, running to a clear-shot position directly into the line of fire while Crooks was firing 8 rounds.”

Higgins said his preliminary report was based on about 20 hours of investigative work at the scene in Butler County Aug. 4-6.

“As always, my investigation was focused on hard evidence and facts, specific observations guided by instinct and experience,” he wrote. “My overall mission was to personally observe and investigate the available crime scene site, along with consideration of both anticipated and unanticipated interactions with witnesses, the crime scene landscape, hard evidence, corroborative evidence, and circumstantial evidence.”

Even after being identified by local police 90 minutes before the shooting as a suspicious person, Crooks was able to slip onto the roof of the sprawling AGR complex between 6:06 and 6:08 p.m. and run at least two-thirds the length of the roof to a concealed shooting perch on Building 6, bodycam footage showed.

A Pennsylvania State Police trooper broadcast a warning at 6:08 p.m. that someone was on the roof, but the Secret Service apparently did not hear it. The Secret Service had no personnel in the local police command center and failed to use the special radios provided by police for communicating with the local command center, officials have said.

Crooks shot Trump in the right ear at 6:11:32 p.m. during an initial burst of three rifle shots, followed by a rapid discharge of five more bullets. Killed in the gunfire was volunteer firefighter Corey Comperatore, 50, of Sarver, Pa. The seriously wounded included David Dutch, 57, of New Kensington, Pa., and James Copenhaver, 74, of Moon Township, Pa.

In a briefing last week with U.S. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), local police officials said the U.S. Secret Service has not even acknowledged the heroic action taken by the Butler County SWAT officer in stopping the attack. “That's not being widely reported,” Johnson said Aug. 11.

'This pattern of investigative scorched earth by the FBI is quite troubling.'

Higgins said it is possible that the bullet from the SWAT operator disabled Crooks’ weapon and prevented him from firing a ninth or subsequent time.

“On his own, this ESU SWAT operator took a very hard shot, one shot,” Higgins said. “He stopped Crooks, and importantly, I believe he damaged the buffer tube on Crooks’ AR. … This means that if his AR buffer tube was damaged, Crooks’ rifle would not fire after his eighth shot.”

The buffer tube on an AR-15-style rifle houses a system to control recoil when the weapon is fired.

When the SWAT bullet hit his AR-15, Crooks initially went down from his prone shooting stance, the report said, perhaps stunned by the debris striking his face and neck. After a few seconds, the Butler SWAT operator reported, Crooks “popped back up.”

Video shot from the west side of Building 6 by eyewitness Jon Malis shows Crooks almost sitting up after his rifle was hit. “Then when I looked back later with my video zoomed in,” Malis said. “Sure enough, you could see him sit up and sling his weapon around and aim it right towards us right before the Secret Service shot him.”

Higgins served in a variety of law enforcement roles in Louisiana before first taking office in the House in 2017. Most recently he served as deputy marshal for the city of Lafayette and previously held law enforcement positions at city, town, and parish departments.

FBI releases shooter's body

Higgins said he had planned to examine Crooks’ body on an investigative trip to Butler Aug. 5 but discovered the FBI had released it to the family for cremation on July 23. “Nobody knew this until Monday, August 5,” Higgins said.

“The problem with me not being able to examine the actual body is that I won’t know 100% if the coroner’s report and the autopsy report are accurate. We will actually never know,” Higgins wrote. “Yes, we’ll get the reports and pictures, etc., but I will not ever be able to say with certainty that those reports and pictures are accurate according to my own examination of the body.”

He said the FBI released the crime scene after just three days, harming the efforts of other investigations examining the shooting.

'Cops don't do that, ever.'

“I interviewed several first responders who expressed everything from surprise to dismay to suspicion regarding the fact that the FBI released the crime scene so early after J13,” he said. “It should be noted that the FBI was fully aware of the fact that Congress would be investigating J13. The FBI does not exist in a vacuum. They had to know that releasing the J13 crime scene would injure the immediate observations of any following investigation.”

The FBI also scrubbed the scene before releasing it.

A Beaver County Emergency Services SWAT operator and a medic enter the building from which Thomas Crooks shot former President Donald J. Trump at a rally July 13 in Butler, Pa.Butler Township Police Department via Judicial Watch

“The FBI cleaned up biological evidence from the crime scene, which is unheard of,” he said. “Cops don’t do that, ever.”

Higgins described the actions of the FBI as “obstruction” of congressional and other investigations that were started since the FBI opened its criminal probe of the shooting. The FBI was surely aware of the U.S. House task force appointed by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), he said.

“Why, then, by what measure would the FBI release his body to the family for cremation? This pattern of investigative scorched earth by the FBI is quite troubling,” Higgins said.

Blaze News has contacted the FBI for comment on the Higgins report.

The Higgins report confirmed information published by Blaze News Aug. 12 that indicated Crooks took a path along the roof to his shooting perch that minimized his exposure to the counter-sniper teams. The view of the Secret Service counter-snipers was badly obscured by two large trees just southeast of the building from which Crooks fired. Crooks likely used his drone just before 4 p.m. to confirm the route he would take on the roof, a Blaze source said.

“Crooks’ firing position was also several feet back from the actual peak of the AGR rooftop,” Higgins said. “By choosing this position, Crooks effectively minimized the sky-lined profile of his head and upper body.”

No second shooter

The report discounted widely circulated internet theories that a second gunman was located atop the blue water tower at the edge of the AGR property. Higgins said the tower was checked and cleared using a drone in the morning. The retractable ladder to access the tower was never lowered that day, and local police squads sat underneath the tower much of the day, he said.

To reach the top of the tower, someone would have had to scale the first 25 feet with no ladder, then climb 75 feet to the catwalk, then make it up the “intimidating and precarious” dome vent access ladder.

“I do not believe it was possible for a '2nd shooter' sniper to be on top of that water tower on J13, nor have I seen any evidence that supports the theory of a 2nd shooter. I’m not saying conclusively that there was no other shooter somewhere or that no other conspirators were involved in J13, but I’m saying that based on my investigation thus far, there were 10 shots fired on J13, and all shots are accounted for, and all shots align with their source.”

Higgins also quashed the idea that a muzzle flash was seen in a first-floor window of the AGR building at the time of the shooting. He said he examined the window and determined it does not open.

Higgins gave high marks to the tactical teams and other local police officers who staffed the event and responded to the shooting. “My assessment of the local law enforcement's overall performance on J13 is that the ESU was very professionally deployed and commanded,” he said.

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EXCLUSIVE: Feds caught MANIPULATING images at Trump shooting

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Blaze News investigative reporter Steve Baker is at it again.

However, this time, he’s not focused on revealing the truth about January 6 — but rather the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

Armed with exclusive cellphone video from a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act request, he’s been able to point out some strange details that destroy the entire narrative being sold to the American people.

“I am so fed up with giving the excuse of incompetency after incompetency after incompetency. We’ve seen it so much. We started with the incompetencies of January 6; we’re starting with the incompetencies of J13 now. And the layers are just too deep,” Baker tells Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

Baker pulled screenshots from the videos he obtained, and one of them is incredibly suspicious.

One man is pictured in plain clothes, with a weapon in his hand and a badge around his neck. When Baker zoomed in to see details on the badge, he found it’d been blurred out. Not only that, but the black around the badge had been digitally reshaped.

“Otherwise we would be able to identify what the badge was, just by its shape. Just by the badge,” Baker explains.

The man was also dressed like several other undercover cops — and so was someone else.

“The bottom line is that for some reason, Crooks showed up dressed like undercover cops,” Baker says. “Did he know that he was covered by what he was wearing? I have to ask those questions, right? If I don’t ask those questions, I’m not being honest even with myself.”

Baker also reveals that he has sources that train Secret Service snipers and counterassault teams for a living.

“They’re telling me that the impossibility of him not being groomed exists, but that it is highly improbable to the Nth degree,” Baker says. “Everything that they see in him indicates and shows signs of the type of grooming, and I quote, ‘I recognize my own handiwork.’”

“I just told you about somebody, that’s what they do. Overseas, in dangerous hot spots around the world, when they groom disaffected young men, should an opportunity present itself when they need to activate them,” he adds, noting that while the rally was announced only a few weeks before, Crooks had been training at the rifle range for 10 and a half months.

“And remember, he did have a Discord account,” Gonzales chimes in. “But we’ve been reliably informed that he didn’t use it very often and it’s okay ‘cause they wiped it.”


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Former agent REVEALS FBI ‘playbook’: Grooming the ‘emotionally disturbed’

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Questions surrounding the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump have remained unanswered — but FBI whistleblower and former agent Steve Friend has some theories.

“I’m not hearing anything satisfying coming from the FBI or the Secret Service on the assassination attempt,” Glenn Beck tells Friend, who has an idea of why that is.

“I think one of the most disturbing elements that hasn’t been picked up on was when the deputy director of the FBI, Paul Abbate, said that they were going to investigate it as domestic terrorism,” Friend explains.

While that may seem reasonable to the average American citizen, Friend is well aware of what that means.

“The FBI is now going to slap a classified label on this investigation, and they’re not going to be able to be transparent because you don’t have a need to know,” he tells Glenn, before noting how troubling the new claim of the Pakistani national’s plans to take Trump out is.

“This is what I like to call the ‘playbook’ that the FBI has been running the last two-and-a-half decades, particularly since 9/11,” he explains, adding, “What they do to justify their existence as a bureaucracy, as a self-licking ice cream cone, they will identify a vulnerable person, emotionally disturbed, maybe someone with radical intentions but not capable of carrying forward an actual attack without the involvement of the FBI.”

The FBI will then use confidential human sources and undercover agents to groom these vulnerable individuals for as long as it takes before they’ll engage in an activity that can be labeled as terrorism.

“The added wrinkle here was that they imported this Pakistani through the border, they sponsored him arriving. The FBI Dallas office actually was the signee on him arriving,” Friend tells Glenn, adding, “They followed him and orchestrated this plot that could never have happened without the involvement of the government.”

“We are now running terrorists so that we can justify our existence as an agency,” Friend says, disturbed. Friend also explains that according to the FBI, the Pakistani national just happened to speak to an informant about soliciting a hit man as soon as he arrived in the United States.

“The bottom line is that the FBI is inventing these cases, so that they can go to Congress and say ‘Look at all the good work we have done here, why don’t you give us enhanced funding, why don’t you give us enhanced tools,'” Friend says.




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WAKE UP! Did the FBI Claim Trump Shooter Was...A Far-Right Terrorist?

WAKE UP! Did the FBI Claim Trump Shooter Was...A Far-Right Terrorist?

WAKE UP! Did the FBI claim the Trump shooter was ... a far-right terrorist?

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In a follow-up congressional hearing on the assassination attempt on Trump, the FBI revealed a surprising twist regarding Thomas Crooks’ social media.

That is that he may have been a far-right terrorist.

The update comes after the FBI unearthed a social media account that it claims may be tied to Crooks. The account left around 700 comments between 2019 and 2020 and appeared to reflect “anti-Semitic and anti-immigration themes.”

“Some of these comments, if ultimately attributable to the shooter, appear to reflect antisemitic and anti-immigration themes, to espouse political violence and are described as extreme in nature,” FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate said.

Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” isn’t convinced.

“I’m just wondering, do you trust the FBI?” She asks. “Do you trust the FBI’s anti-Semitism narrative?”

Gonzales then notes that Crooks had donated to ActBlue, an organization that funds Democrats, and was in a BlackRock commercial.

But Crooks' background isn’t the only thing that makes Gonzales skeptical of the narrative the FBI is now attempting to push.

“Do we trust the FBI to not feed us a narrative that they want to use against us, because this is the same FBI who is investigating grandmas who waved their American flags, who [were] led in, sent on a guided tour by Capitol Police on January 6,” Gonzales says.

“This is the same FBI who are calling parents domestic terrorists who show up at school board meetings. This is the same FBI who’s raiding pro-life protesters homes. This is the same FBI who raided Mar-a-Lago over some classified documents,” she continues, adding, “Do you trust them to not just feed you a narrative that is against half of the country?”


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WATCH: FBI whistleblower exposes corruption at shady agency in NEW interview

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It’s been over two weeks since Trump’s near assassination, and we still don’t know how a 20-year-old with no military or law enforcement background was able to weasel his way around the Secret Service.

According to Steve Friend, a former FBI agent who’s now come forth as a whistleblower, the FBI won't produce a result in its Trump Assassination Attempt Probe because that's not the goal of the bureau.

“The FBI loves to hide behind ‘we can't reveal sources and methods,’ ‘it's an ongoing investigation,’ ‘we're just going to drag this out as long as we possibly can until people either lose interest or there's something else that we can get our hooks into that's going to do better for us in the headlines,”’ he tells Jill Savage and the “Blaze News Tonight” panel.

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“I don't have any confidence in them to actually carry forward an honest and forthright investigation of any kind because they've demonstrated themselves to be just a politically partisan organization, particularly as it pertains to Donald Trump,” he continues.

“Director Wray's testimony yesterday ... appeared to be more forthright than he's been in any previous congressional hearings,” says investigative journalist and Blaze Media correspondent Steve Baker. “Did you get that impression, or do you see something else?”

Friend speculates that Wray’s increase in candor is likely due to the fact that the Secret Service is under fire this time rather than the FBI.

“I think there's a lot of attention really being thrown at the Secret Service at this point. I think he, at that point, gave a little bit of an exhale,” he explains. “By and large, Christopher Wray has just done the exact same thing all the time, and I think it's derivative of one, he's a politically partisan guy, but secondly, he's not an outcomes guy.”

The American people “want to see an effective investigation actually transpire, where we get all the answers. [Wray] doesn't see that as success; he's about the process — process itself is success.”

“How do you describe Christopher Wray?” asks Jill.

Wray “made $9.2 million a year before he was brought in as the FBI director, and he gave that up for a $200,000 a year job for a 10-year appointment where he'd have to live apart from his family,” Friend says. “That's what his sacrifice was for — ‘the cause’ — and the cause was bringing cultural Marxism to its full fruition within the FBI.”

“You can see it in the hiring standards. ... They're bringing in people, at this point, who are 50 pounds overweight describing themselves as woke, and then most recently, you had somebody hired by the Washington field office who is an actual heroin addict,” he explains.

“Do you think this is a lost cause at this point?” asks Blaze Media editor in chief Matthew Peterson.

“Well, the agency itself, I think, is a lost cause because the reforms that are necessary to bring it back from the brink are so drastic,” such as “[reducing] its footprint from a headquarter standpoint,” “[getting] rid of the intelligence branch entirely,” “[getting] back to actually doing criminal investigations” and “not [concerning] themselves with intelligence gathering on the American people,” says Friend.

But there’s one simple thing that the federal government could do to make the FBI effective again: “take the guns away.”

“The origin of the FBI was an unarmed investigative agency,” Friend explains. “It can return to that, and it can do what Christopher Wray says that it is always intending to do and that is aid local law enforcement.”

To hear more of the interview, watch the clip above.

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Assassination attempt was allowed to happen, Donald Trump Jr. says

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The conditions that allowed a 20-year-old would-be assassin to get a clear shot at assassinating former President Donald J. Trump didn’t happen by coincidence, Donald Trump Jr. said July 29.

“I don’t honestly think that the guys at the Secret Service — many who I know and respect — magically left an entire roof unguarded where a guy with a rifle could get there for 20 minutes within 150 yards,” Trump Jr. said in an interview with journalist Tucker Carlson.

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“Like, that doesn't happen. That's not being a conspiracy theorist,” Trump Jr. said. "Like, you're a freaking idiot if you think that that just happened by coincidence.”

The junior Trump’s explosive statement raises the public specter of what has been mostly whispered only in private: Were the U.S. Secret Service or others in government somehow complicit in the attempted assassination? Did would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks have help?

J. Michael Waller, senior analyst at the Center for Security Policy and author of the best-selling book “Big Intel: How the CIA Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains,” said the ugliest explanations cannot be ruled out.

“It’s really hard to separate incompetence from willful negligence or even simple negligence or malice," Waller said on the July 19 episode of "Blaze News Tonight." "You can’t rule out malice. You can’t rule out somebody wanted this to happen.”

A top-tier U.S. military special operations expert told Blaze News that after examining all of the evidence to date, the hallmarks are there to suggest that Crooks was groomed and trained for an assassination attempt.

"It’s not in the realm of real possibility for the government to be this incompetent," the special operator said on condition of anonymity. "There is no chance Crooks was not pointed to which building he needed to be on.

"Rank incompetence vs. rank arrogance. I’ve seen a lot of it in my 30 years in government ops. This was neither," the expert said, suggesting that initial clues are visible in Crooks' behavior.

Crooks' 11-minute drone flight two hours before the shooting was likely not for surveillance, the expert said, but for planning his route onto the grounds and up onto the roof. FBI Director Christopher Wray told a U.S. House hearing that Crooks flew the drone some 200 yards from the stage where Trump would speak.

The Oversight Project at the Heritage Foundation said geolocation data from a phone linked to Crooks traveled from the Crooks home in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, to Butler on July 4 and July 8.

Crooks likely knew the grounds would be changed on the day of the event, due to parking, fencing, and vendor parking and setup, the special ops expert said.

"A 20-year-old with no military or government training doing so many things correctly — range finder, drone, recon, turning off his phone — had to have been 'groomed' into this process. He was likely paid by some government or dark money source.

"I don’t think he went rogue or was a rogue operator," the expert said. "I’ve seen and been involved in these types of ops for too many years. He had instructions.

One special operator can train or groom about eight to 12 youths quite easily, the ops expert said, including precision operations, such as the setting of explosive devices for kill operations.

This is not the kind of thing done with only a single recruit; one operative can run up to 12 guys to take advantage of “multiple opportunities” and then "activate" the right emotionally disturbed and loner kid at the right opportunity.

"Depending upon the op, I’d need at least nine months for the source vetting and grooming, but I’ve done it in as little as six months," he said. "Then I’d need as little as three days to prep him for the specific operations, after the requisite number of months of grooming."

The Trump assassination attempt has likely inspired more people to make attempts, the expert said.

"Trump is more at risk now than he ever was before," he said. "His security has been stepped up, but that won’t stop a band of — for instance, and I say this with knowledge and authority — 'Somali immigrants,' who are gung ho for Kamala Harris, to risk a suicide operation to take out Trump."

If the Trump shooting were some kind of deep-state government op that failed, they would typically put other ops on hold and allow more radical groups to take charge, he said.

The mere thought of other operatives primed to try to get at Trump again has already prompted discussion among experts in law enforcement, event security, and even military special operations. Protecting former President Trump until — and beyond — Election Day will require the helping hands of combat-hardened private security contractors, they say.

“Today’s Secret Service doesn’t merely need additional, immediate help from private companies,” Waller wrote in a July 24 Blaze News opinion column.

'It is essential that we have a proper election and that these issues are solved at the ballot box and not with a cartridge box.'

“It’s clear from the attempted murder of Trump that its dysfunctional personnel quality, driven by politicized policy, runs deep,” Waller said. “This is where the privatization of Secret Service functions can help correct the problem quickly.”

Waller said the developments surrounding the assassination attempt now demand bringing in third-party experts for protection details and event security. He suggested that Erik Prince, founder of the security firm Blackwater, be tapped to take charge of Trump's security.

"No one on earth has a better record of protecting their people than Erik Prince," Waller said on the July 19 episode of "Blaze News Tonight." "When he was with Blackwater, he had a 100-percent perfection record of protecting the lives of the Americans whom his people were there to save."

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Waller wrote that today’s Secret Service had its roots in the Civil War era, when President Abraham Lincoln hired the Pinkerton National Detective Agency to provide counterintelligence. Pinkerton private security operatives had uncovered and thwarted a plot to assassinate Lincoln in Baltimore in 1861.

In July 2008, presidential candidate and future President Barack Obama was protected on a trip to Afghanistan by the private security firm Blackwater, Waller said. Blackwater set the standard for protecting Americans in the most dangerous environments, he said.

Prince said integrating private operatives into the existing Secret Service infrastructure would be complicated.

“Integrating private contracted support in with the federal effort would be exceedingly difficult and exceedingly dangerous, especially for the private guys because the federal bureaucracy will always protect itself and will always hang the private guys out to dry,” Prince said on the July 16 episode of "Blaze News Tonight."

“That being said, if the mission required it and if President Trump actually asked for it, I’m sure we can find a way to help him out because it is essential that we have a proper election and that these issues are solved at the ballot box and not with a cartridge box.”

Prince said the stakes could not be higher in finding out what went wrong with security on July 13 and ensuring that it doesn’t happen again.

“It was not Secret Service excellence that saved President Trump,” he said. “It was bad aim, President Trump turning his head, and probably the flap of an angel’s wings. We literally, the nation, dodged a bullet on Saturday.”

Another U.S. special forces operator who trains Secret Service counter-sniper and counter-surveillance teams told Blaze News that outside security help is a must.

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“U.S. Secret Service is not up to the task and will fail on the next attempt, which won't miss,” said the source, speaking on condition of anonymity. “The whisper campaign to provide private security for Trump, based on these facts, is starting.”

Former President Trump and the public need to realize how bad the problem is at the Secret Service, the source indicated.

“Helping the public — and President Trump — understand how negligent [Secret Service personnel] were and will continue to be for the foreseeable future is critical to keeping Trump secure,” the source said. “Otherwise security will continue to be lax.”

Trump's daughter-in-law, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Lara Trump, said she faults the Secret Service leadership for the July 13 failures, not the line agents protecting her father-in-law.

"I don't worry that the people on the ground with my father-in-law because I've seen them," she said on "Blaze News Tonight." "You saw them jump on top of him, literally put themselves between my father-in-law and an assassin. And you didn't know at that moment what else was out there. Was there another shooter out there?

"They risked their lives for him and they were willing to give up their lives for him, so I have no doubt about their capabilities," Lara Trump said. "Those people did their job exactly as they should have."

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