It's not that complicated

When it comes to the assassination attempt on Trump, the facts speak for themselves

In what shall (likely) be my last piece on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on Saturday, July 13th, I wish simply to emphasize a basic principle that I believe ought to be operational to anyone looking at the “facts on the ground,” as I have discussed them briefly— albeit not exhaustively— in these virtual pages in recent days.

It is this: one needn’t complicate matters. The simplest explanation is typically the most likely one. A straight line is the most sensible way to connect two or more dots, all of which line up quite neatly in a row. Contrary to what some may think, the principle of Occom’s razor can as easily detect the likelihood of a conspiracy as refute the existence of one.

Put another way, if a creature looks, smells, shakes its tail feathers, glides through the water, and quacks like a duck, one is not out of line to suspect that it is indeed a duck.

It might, of course, be an entirely different entity, heretofore unknown to mankind— a kind of cryptozoological anomaly which is easily taken for a duck when it is in fact something altogether more exotic. That said, it is probably— nay, almost certainly— simply a duck.

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The “facts on the ground” regarding the horrific turn of events in Butler, Pennsylvania last weekend, as I laid them out recently (with useful input from readers using the comment section, who added other facts which I hadn’t mentioned or of which I had been unaware), lead one to suspect at best gross incompetence on the part of the Secret Service, a body which has long enjoyed the reputation of providing the best security in the world to the world’s most high-profile clients (presidents prime ministers, kings, and the like).

Last Saturday, however, the representatives of this august, storied organization looked like Keystone cops, or worse.

There is of course talk of the talent pool of the SS being diluted due to recently-mandated DEI “reforms,” which appear to put more of a premium on “diversity” than effectiveness. And maybe all that happened at the ill-fated Trump rally in Butler last Saturday was a “perfect storm” of pathetic awfulness: to wit, the “diverse” SS team on the job abysmally failing to secure an area, including a quite conspicuously sniper-friendly roof (“sloped” or otherwise), for a high-profile client (a former president, no less), while at the same time a would-be assassin just happened to choose that very day to climb atop that selfsame “sloped” roof, right under the noses of those supposedly “watchful” agents, and make his way to a spot where he had a clear shot of the very former president the Secret Service had been assigned to protect; that this would-be assassin was permitted to climb to this vantage point— with the help of a conveniently-placed ladder!— and shimmy to his position atop the roof, rifle in hand, and that he was seen by numerous bystanders who screamed for the security forces to take action, but he remained unmolested until he actually fired four or five shots at his target, critically injuring two rally-goers and killing another, while only narrowly missing Trump himself, before the Secret Service counter-snipers returned fire and neutralized the threat by finally taking out the shooter.

Secret Service director Kim Cheadle said that agents weren’t placed on the assassin’s perch due to the fact that its “sloped roof” created a “safety hazard”

Perhaps, that is, all we had was a “perfect storm” of a certain SS team rendered incompetent by DEI mandates sent to “protect” a former president, met by the unfortunate fluke of an actual would-be assassin just happening to show up on that very day, intending to murder that same former president.

But what is the likelihood of the confluence of these two scenarios happening at once? And how much of what was allowed by Secret Service agents to take place in Butler, Pennsylvania— namely, giving a man with a rifle and clearly malign intentions access to a perfect sniper spot in plain sight of numerous people, then permitting him to take several shots at his intended target— can truly be chalked up to anything so pedestrian as mere incompetence?

Andy Nowicki is the author of several books, most recently The Insurrectionist, Muze, and Love and Hidden Agendas, as well as the just-published The Rule of Wrath. Visit his YouTube channel.