Things that don’t add up to me


I’m not a fan of conspiracy theories. I still believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman. I still believe that Saddam Hussain had nothing to do with 9/11 and had zero nuclear weapons, zero chemical weapons and zero biological weapons at the time of the US invasion and military occupation of Iraq.

Nevertheless, there’s something fishy about this latest “assassination attempt” on Trump.

• First were the words of Acting Secret Service acting director Ronald Rowe on Monday afternoon at press conference about the incident. Rowe stated that Trump’s trip to golf course on Sunday was not on his schedule and bluntly that Trump "wasn't supposed to have gone there in the first place." In fact, Rowe repeated that four times in a short press conference including with the comment, “The president wasn’t even really supposed to go there.”

That raises the question of how the gunman knew Trump would be there? Reporters asked Rowe this twice yet he had no definitive answer. Did someone tip the gunman off making this a criminal conspiracy? Did he just luckily pick the day, time and course Trump would play at?


• But what caught everyone’s attention is that authorities note the gunman appears to have waited 12 hours in the tree line of Trump’s exclusive club. That means he went unnoticed from 1:59 a.m. to when he was seen by Secret Service at 1:30PMET. And his detection came after this 12 hour wait when for some reason he pointed the muzzle of his AR-type gun through the trees for all to see despite Trump not being in sight at the time.

• How [did he get]  to the area from Hawaii? How did he acquire the gun despite being a convicted felon? Was he in the area for a period of time before investigating Trump’s movements?  Adding to the questions are that CNN reported the gunman told the judge at his arraignment that he had “zero funds” in his own savings. If he had no funds, how did he afford the truck he was driving, the weapon, the camera? Where was he staying?

Inquiring minds want to know. People are saying. 

https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/the-more-facts-we-learn-the-more

 

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