The Young Man Was 'The Patsy'

Besides not being able to kill the president, the other thing that went very wrong for the killers is that the young man did not climb to the highest point of the roof, as he would have had to do for the official narrative to have a basis.  At the spot in which the young man died, he was in fact more than one yard away from the uppermost point of the roof and unable to even see the campaign rally.  He would have had to climb to the very top, to the apex of the roof, to be in a position to commit the crime he is accused of.

There is a TMZ video that surfaced today (7/19/24).  He is looking forward in it and gunfire is heard; the crowd is screaming because of the shots while he is still looking forward.  His arms are to his side.  The video shows that he had no rifle.  Just before the camera breaks away from him, in the last instant he is seen, his face moves rightward in the video.  It could be that it is the moment he was killed.  Right after it, the second barrage of shots is recorded; the fact that his face turns rightward after the first barrage has begun, shows that he is not the assassin.  The TMZ video shows that he was either killed in the last instant we see him in their video, or else in the second barrage of gunfire.

Watching the video of the “shooter” moving on the roof, published by The New York Times on 7/17/24, it does not appear he had a rifle.  This not just because we don’t see it in the video, but also from the way he climbed.  We don’t see the rifle either in witness video images or in the picture of him dead shown by the NYT, but the crucial fact is that even if a video or a picture were to appear showing him with a rifle on the roof, he still could not be the real assassin because he never reached high enough in the roof to be able to be the shooter.  There is a government picture (taken from high above) that shows him dead on the roof, with a rifle a few yards to his left, but we also see him there too far below the highest point of the roof.

In the NYT published video, we see the young man climbing too slowly, too tentatively.  It almost looks like he might not reach the top, as if he believed nobody had seen him yet.  It’s obvious that he was not in a normal state of mind.  From where he died, he couldn’t see the stage, the crowd, or anything there; he could see the roof, the sky beyond, or the people to his right.  The New York Times circled the location of the “gunman’s body” (fourth link), and it’s where we also see him in the pictures.  From the spot in which he was killed, we learn that he was “the patsy” not the assassin.

The bullet that slightly wounded our former president exposed the intent of the assassins beyond question, as does also the fact that the young man stopped crawling about three-fourths up the roof.  It follows that the shooters didn’t wait for him to reach the spot from where he could be in position to shoot (and be the killer theoretically), and that they started shooting and missing their target, apparently in a state of nervousness and pressured by time due to the witnesses who could see and film the young man.

A witness reported seeing him climb up with a rifle clearly visible to the witness, but the video (first link) does not show that at all and his movement wasn’t like that of someone carrying a rifle.  There’s also the late story that some agent went up a ladder to the roof and the young man saw him and “pointed his rifle” at him, which made him go back down seeking protection, but that he sure saw the rifle.  I don’t believe it.  The unseen rifle loses its significance once we know that the young man could not even look to the other side from the spot he was killed at.  Someone could argue that the TMZ video shows him looking at the rally below, but that is the video which shows him without a rifle while the first barrage of shots was being fired, so it’s a mute point.  It’s a video that proves most conclusively that he was innocent and used as a patsy by the assassins.

In the second link, at its start, you can see a vertical object on the right side of the roof, and that’s the apex level of the roof – the height level at which he would have had to be killed for the official narrative to make any sense; we can all see that he died below the point he needed to reach to look to the other side, etc.

This is a young person who reportedly asked for permission at his job to be absent on just this day.  Why would he ask his boss for just one day’s permission to go do what he is accused of?  Someone who went without a rifle might, or one who thinks he can come back to work.  Good that the images available make us witnesses too.

Thus, someone else tried to kill the president and make the young man guilty of it.  He was also a kid at twenty years of age.  The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) published the following key things about this young man:

“In his well-to-do hometown, however, neighbours are in shock, seemingly unable to grasp how a quiet young man is now accused in the shooting.”

“He was from Bethel Park in Pennsylvania, about 70km (43 miles) from the site of the attempted assassination, and graduated in 2022 from Bethel Park High School with a $500 (£385) prize for maths and science, according to a local newspaper.”

“Crooks worked in a local nursing home kitchen just a short drive away from his home, where staff members have said that he passed a background check and raised no concerns.”

“The Community College of Allegheny, or CCAC, has confirmed that Crooks attended the school between September 2021 and May 2024. He graduated with an associate degree in engineering science.”

“In a statement sent to the BBC, the college noted that he graduated “with high honours” and that a review of his records turned up no disciplinary, student conduct or security-related incidents.”

“Speaking to CNN, Crooks’ father, Matthew Crooks, said he was trying to figure out “what the hell is going on” but would “wait until I talk to law enforcement” before speaking about his son.”  (7/17/24)

He exposed the terrorists by not reaching the point the deception required.  By stopping his climb where he did, the whole deception was/is fully exposed.  The BBC report shows a promising young man, rather.  It looks like the investigators should check for the possibility of shooters in the trees seen in the video published by the NYT (link 1).

There are news reports that he “hid the weapon in advance, according to a Secret Service source” (FOX 2 Detroit).  It was “not immediately clear where he hid it, however.”  They say he was seen holding a ”range finder” one hour before the shooting.  He could not forget that again, but, in the context of the thoughtless narrative,  he might as well have.

Link 1: “Bystanders Warned Law Enforcement of the Gunman Two Minutes Before He Began Shooting, Video Shows”

Link 2: “Videos Show Suspect Lying Motionless on Nearby Rooftop After Shooting”

Link 3: “What we know about the Trump attacker”  – BBC

Link 4: Here you see where the NYT locates the body of the dead gunman.

“A Visual Timeline of the Trump Rally Shooting”

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