In assessing whether there was an “inside job” to kill Trump, many have naturally focused on the federal agencies, including the Secret Service and the FBI. But what if Trump was set up by someone inside his campaign? This does not seem far-fetched now that we know that someone in the campaign had been begging the Secret Service for additional security. We now understand that additional security was not forthcoming and Trump was nevertheless sent out to the Butler rally on July 13 and exposed to gunfire from a roof that was not being monitored.
Clearly, this was a set-up.
The conclusion is inescapable: somebody in the campaign knew there was a risk to Trump’s life because federal agencies were unwilling to protect him. Or perhaps several people knew about the risk. Who are these people? And shouldn’t Trump immediately fire them?
These are troubling conclusions to make, but that is where the evidence leads.
Looking back at the situation, Rep. Mike Waltz said, “I have very reliable sources telling me there have been repeated requests for stronger secret service protection for President Trump.”
Those “reliable sources” must be in the Secret Service and the Trump campaign. They must be in the Trump campaign since Waltz said some of the requests were made in writing. That means that Trump’s people knew of the risk to the president but sent him out to be in front of the crowds anyway. They knew the security was insufficient.
But the risk was not just to the president but members of the crowd, as we saw in Butler.
So this “security failure,” if that’s what you want to call it, was on both ends – in the Secret Service and in the Trump campaign.
This dramatic conclusion puts a new perspective on things.
Let us understand the real dimensions of the “inside job” theory.
The issue becomes not whether a series of flubs, failures, and breakdowns occurred. And the claims about a second shooter divert attention away from the main issue.
The basic problem is why, knowing the security was not good enough, Trump’s advisers decided to proceed with these dangerous rallies and put Trump’s life in danger. And that indicates the Trump campaign has been infiltrated by people willing to risk the life of the former president.
Whether it was one shooter or more, Trump’s life was in danger in part because of decisions made by his own campaign!
Does Trump trust those around him? Perhaps he should take a second look.
After initial denials, the Secret Service admits the Trump campaign was requesting additional security. At the same time, there is no evidence the campaign procured additional security from private sources, as I had been arguing BEFORE the assassination attempt. That means his advisers were content to have Trump appear out in the open before massive crowds without adequate protection.
In other words, all the blame doesn’t rest on the Secret Service. And the Trump people who proceeded with the Butler rally knew his life would be in danger as a result.
Put another way, the Secret Service is certainly to blame for not providing that extra protection. But the Trump people knew the protection was inadequate.
If we think back, consider the fact that the Secret Service had coordinated with the FBI to stage its armed raid on Trump’s home on August 8, 2022. That should have set off alarm bells among Trump’s people about whether the Secret Service could be trusted to protect Trump.
The inescapable conclusion is that while there was a federal plot to kill Trump, it was aided and abetted by people in the Trump campaign who knew or had to know the Secret Service could not be trusted to protect the president.
The point is that nothing was done to beef up security for Trump, even though his people had to know his life was in danger.
As such, with federal agencies determined to eliminate him from the race, and Trump’s people refusing to go public about the dangers, the inevitable happened – an assassination attempt was made.
What I find interesting is that Trump’s people have moved on, blaming the Secret Service for failures, when they are directly implicated in the plot.
These campaign aides were grossly negligent and they should be held accountable. Their negligence almost cost the life of their boss, the former president and current presidential candidate.
Instead, to my knowledge, nobody has been fired from the campaign. And nothing has been done to procure private security services.
What the Trump campaign also ought to be doing is instituting additional screening and vetting for all Secret Service personnel guarding the president.
Trump has always had a problem with loyalty. He still has a problem.
His own family members, especially his sons, should immediately halt all of Trump’s personal appearances until additional security is obtained either from trustworthy federal personnel or private security guards judged to be loyal to the former president.
I’m sure Eric and Don Jr. want their father to win a decisive victory against the Deep State forces out to get him. They want him to continue to campaign.
But if my father were targeted for murder, I would stop his public appearances until I was sure he could be protected. And I would look inside the Trump campaign for problems.
They should look to the example of what happened after Pope John Paul II was the target of an assassination plot engineered by the Russian KGB.
In major public appearances, current popes tend to use the so-called “Popemobile,” which is surrounded by bullet proof glass and armor.
Trump needs something like that. It would dramatically illustrate the state of our political system today, in which the leading opponent of the Deep State shows his determination to survive everything they throw at him. It would also result in more protection for his physical safety, a growing concern for his millions of supporters.
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