Gerald Posner & Mark Zaid make a formidable duo. 100% Agreed.
“Without such an independent inquiry and report, however, history will be left to unqualified social media influencers and malicious actors, whether governments or individuals, who intentionally spread disinformation for their own purposes. That is a surefire recipe for ensuring the country stays divided forever about what happened.”
Do we want to keep repeating the conspiracist’s playbook or do it rightly & throughly this time?
Watch 4-5 min's of Chris Wray's hearing Wed, and it'll feel harder to hope that the truth will ever be unveiled eventually line we need, just thru persistent effort, gumption, and gritty questions in hearings... given . Assume there exists a set actual facts about what (wtf) just happened in Butler. Of course. Now assume that some person or persons know all if them (they do). The horror is how that's not enough to give them to a needy public that needs them (has right to know them).
But there's this person(s) then assume, that hss them, can give them to us, but has chosen not to. So we cant get whats required to fill in the screaming explanatory gap that lingers still at 15 days out. Then why not at 15 yrs. 150 yrs. We have a problem
I lean towards incompetence. From employees on the Boeing assembly line to Secret Service agents to our own coworkers (nurses for me). There’s a cultural pessimism that we’re underpaid, overworked, and being an overachieving employee goes unnoticed. Just do the bare minimum (even less if you can get away with it) and you’re beating the system. A random sampling of any work place has a few people on drugs (alcohol, opiates, THC, benzos) or playing on their phone instead of doing their job. The old assumption that everyone else is doing their job has become the exception, Most aren’t.
There is a lot of fodder here for all kinds of speculation. The complete lack of credibility within the government and the MSM doesn't help. Unlike with JFK, RFK, and MLK there is a plethora of independent news sources now so truth may possibly prevail after all.
I suggest checking out this 90-second video on the YouTube channel Storyful News & Weather: “Trump’s Motorcade, Ambulance Speed Away After Shooting at Rally.” I am struck by how that motorcade is far smaller than what I (a DC resident) have seen going to/from the White House. I’d say it’s 1/3 the size—and it’s only SUVs and motorcycles. I don’t see the military-type vehicles or weapons that I’ve seen in presidential motorcades.
Is there a security reason not to do a "release of files that might show the preparations for securing vulnerable locations from which an assassin might strike"? I thought there would be?
As usual Gerald POSNER offers a well reasoned and researched analysis about the attempted assassination. Unfortunately, his solution to have a non-political 9/11 type of commission makes too much sense and has no chance in an election year.
I am sure someone knows more about why. Like his parents! Why is there silence there? Do they have a very good lawyer who tells them about all the shit that happens to Trump critics? Were they part of the problem? Were they bankrupted by an old Trump scam? I think it likely their story will be told when it's safe for them to do so. And their silence is perfectly legitimate.
Excellent view. So it seems not only did the USSS repeat the errors of past assassination attempts when it comes to dealing with the media and the public, they made new ones while not adapting to the social media climate of today.
That a former President who showed enormous disrespect and contempt for the proper rule of government law in office would not only allow but endorse these sorts of conspiracy beliefs is absolutely not a surprise.
Gerald Posner & Mark Zaid make a formidable duo. 100% Agreed.
“Without such an independent inquiry and report, however, history will be left to unqualified social media influencers and malicious actors, whether governments or individuals, who intentionally spread disinformation for their own purposes. That is a surefire recipe for ensuring the country stays divided forever about what happened.”
Do we want to keep repeating the conspiracist’s playbook or do it rightly & throughly this time?
Watch 4-5 min's of Chris Wray's hearing Wed, and it'll feel harder to hope that the truth will ever be unveiled eventually line we need, just thru persistent effort, gumption, and gritty questions in hearings... given . Assume there exists a set actual facts about what (wtf) just happened in Butler. Of course. Now assume that some person or persons know all if them (they do). The horror is how that's not enough to give them to a needy public that needs them (has right to know them).
But there's this person(s) then assume, that hss them, can give them to us, but has chosen not to. So we cant get whats required to fill in the screaming explanatory gap that lingers still at 15 days out. Then why not at 15 yrs. 150 yrs. We have a problem
I lean towards incompetence. From employees on the Boeing assembly line to Secret Service agents to our own coworkers (nurses for me). There’s a cultural pessimism that we’re underpaid, overworked, and being an overachieving employee goes unnoticed. Just do the bare minimum (even less if you can get away with it) and you’re beating the system. A random sampling of any work place has a few people on drugs (alcohol, opiates, THC, benzos) or playing on their phone instead of doing their job. The old assumption that everyone else is doing their job has become the exception, Most aren’t.
This is a " I'm so superior to mortals" Approach. Since according to Posners approach, we can't draw any conclusions yet but that is bs.
There is a lot of fodder here for all kinds of speculation. The complete lack of credibility within the government and the MSM doesn't help. Unlike with JFK, RFK, and MLK there is a plethora of independent news sources now so truth may possibly prevail after all.
It's just what the left continues to give us; an undivided nation🥲
I suggest checking out this 90-second video on the YouTube channel Storyful News & Weather: “Trump’s Motorcade, Ambulance Speed Away After Shooting at Rally.” I am struck by how that motorcade is far smaller than what I (a DC resident) have seen going to/from the White House. I’d say it’s 1/3 the size—and it’s only SUVs and motorcycles. I don’t see the military-type vehicles or weapons that I’ve seen in presidential motorcades.
Thank you!
Is there a security reason not to do a "release of files that might show the preparations for securing vulnerable locations from which an assassin might strike"? I thought there would be?
As usual Gerald POSNER offers a well reasoned and researched analysis about the attempted assassination. Unfortunately, his solution to have a non-political 9/11 type of commission makes too much sense and has no chance in an election year.
I am sure someone knows more about why. Like his parents! Why is there silence there? Do they have a very good lawyer who tells them about all the shit that happens to Trump critics? Were they part of the problem? Were they bankrupted by an old Trump scam? I think it likely their story will be told when it's safe for them to do so. And their silence is perfectly legitimate.
Excellent view. So it seems not only did the USSS repeat the errors of past assassination attempts when it comes to dealing with the media and the public, they made new ones while not adapting to the social media climate of today.
That a former President who showed enormous disrespect and contempt for the proper rule of government law in office would not only allow but endorse these sorts of conspiracy beliefs is absolutely not a surprise.