I keep thinking about the counter sniper's reaction where he obviously jumped back from his scope in surprise and surveyed the situation without the scope. What would he have seen to make him jump back like that? He wouldn't have been surprised like that over a view of trees.
I think he saw that Crooks was already dead. That would have been a WTF moment that would have caused that reaction. Maybe he even saw Crooks killed... from an angle that wasn't one of the known counter sniper positions.... like the water tower.
I saw that, too. For the counter-sniper to be that startled, it tells me they were told nothing about a possible suspicious person wandering the grounds - never mind about people yelling that they saw somebody on the roof with a rifle.
Those two counter-snipers, and the USSS agents immediately around Trump, were all behaving like they were just at a normal level of readiness as the rally began and they allowed Trump to walk out onto the stage.
I cannot believe they knew about the threat. Somebody made the decision to keep that info off their radios.
I keep thinking about the counter sniper's reaction where he obviously jumped back from his scope in surprise and surveyed the situation without the scope. What would he have seen to make him jump back like that? He wouldn't have been surprised like that over a view of trees.
I think he saw that Crooks was already dead. That would have been a WTF moment that would have caused that reaction. Maybe he even saw Crooks killed... from an angle that wasn't one of the known counter sniper positions.... like the water tower.
I saw that, too. For the counter-sniper to be that startled, it tells me they were told nothing about a possible suspicious person wandering the grounds - never mind about people yelling that they saw somebody on the roof with a rifle.
Those two counter-snipers, and the USSS agents immediately around Trump, were all behaving like they were just at a normal level of readiness as the rally began and they allowed Trump to walk out onto the stage.
I cannot believe they knew about the threat. Somebody made the decision to keep that info off their radios.