Peloni: It would seem that this would be an obvious priority, seeing the target of this “concluence of variables” is now POTUS…and yet this is oddly being ignored.
Mariane Angela | Daily Caller |
Former State Department official Mike Benz raised serious concerns on Fox News Monday about the events surrounding the shooting in Butler, Pa., asking whether federal law enforcement played a more significant role than originally reported.
It’s been a year since the shooting of President Donald Trump at his rally in Butler, and while investigations have shed light on the incident, several critical questions remain unanswered. During an appearance on “The Will Cain Show,” Benz said he believes the lack of transparency in the case has led to many critical questions remaining unanswered.
“So the question is, if Crooks was cultivated or if he was being monitored or potentially interacted with by federal law enforcement agents who put him onto that? And I think that the total lack of transparency, it’s sort of defying the laws of surveillance state physics,” Benz said. “I think most people believe that if federal law enforcement were to get ahold of their phone, that pretty much everything could be scraped from it. You don’t know if, for example, in this case, he was communicating with a foreign government.”
Benz then raised concerns that the investigation into the Butler shooting could extend beyond the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), suggesting that agencies like the National Security Agency (NSA) might be involved in cracking encrypted communications.
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“This, to me, may go beyond, you know, FBI, DHS. We know that the NSA is able to crack these sorts of things. And so it’s all very strange to me,” Benz said. “But, again, there’s another whistleblower report that I believe Josh Hawley’s whistleblower mentioned, which was that HSI [Homeland Security Investigation] agents kind of mysteriously replaced a fair number of Secret Service agents that day because Secret Service was said to be split between the NATO summit and Jill Biden being away.”
Benz referred to what he called a troubling series of events leading up to the Butler shooting.
“And that Secret Service had denied, I think, about 10 requests for additional security from the Trump campaign prior to the shooting. And so it is just a strange confluence of variables that just do not sit well for the American public,” Benz said. “And I think that there should be a sort of transparency task force so that these specific questions about HSI and the potential recruiting as an informant about the contents of the phone and the like can be answered.”
A report released Sept. 2024 uncovered whistleblower allegations about the Secret Service’s security failures during the attempted assassination of Trump in Butler. The office of Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri published the whistleblower report and revealed previously undisclosed claims about the DHS and Secret Service committing multiple failures.
Whistleblowers allege that the agent in charge of the Butler rally failed a key examination during federal training and was considered “low-caliber.” The report also said that the Secret Service’s intelligence units were absent from the rally, which contributed to communication failures between law enforcement agencies.
Senior U.S. Secret Service officials were aware of a “classified threat” to Trump’s life 10 days before the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt but failed to inform the agents protecting him. A report from the Government Accountability Office said Sunday that the intelligence, presented to Secret Service leadership, never reached the field team due to a “siloed practice for sharing classified information.”
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Huckabee taking a hostile turn toward Israel.
https://x.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/1946567451879034971
I’ve never before heard of any animosity between the Jews and Christians in Judea and Samaria. Now suddenly this? It seems suspicious and I’m guessing a false flag operation by muslims and leftist agitators to blame Israeli “settlers”. Does anyone have any info on this situation?
@Laura That’s two in a row, now, within a week, I’m sure he’s acting as Trump’s hatchet man. Before he was ambassador, he never said anything like this. What’s going on? Is this retaliation for Syria?
Sebastien yes he is now his hatchet man as you clearly say. It shows 2 things. Such people are wimps. And don’t fall for this other line of “poor” Trump
Trump is at the centre of the tricks and he ran everything connected to the “shootings” based on the Sopranos episode
The Flesh of the Thigh
It still for Israel means to expose the role of Netanyahu
Hopeless toeing of the Donald line as the chief lapdog of America
And the judiciary enemies and creators of the October 7 pogrom should have been in jail as a result of a Democratic Jewish Inquiry set up with full plenipotentiary powers to ACT within weeks of that great tragedy
@Laura
Eastern Christians stand as pawns to their local masters, much as the Jews of Iran stand today condemning Israel and America for their actions in Iran. And notably, the anti-Israeli and anti-American sentiments of these captured Christians remains a continuous and useful tool of the foes of both Israel and America when Western Christians/politicians pretend that the Eastern Christians could possibly be honest about anything which does not support their local master’s interests. In the current scenario, those masters are the PA, led by the terror cabal known as Fatah and its illegitimate leadership headed by Abu Mazen.
So the animosity of Eastern Christians in the PA controlled territories for both Jews and Americans should be understood to be both real and significant to the degree it advantages the anti-Israeli, anti-American interests of the PA terrorists.
The fact that Huckabee is giving support to the claims of these captured anti-Western Christians is both disturbing and unique among Huckabee’s previous commentaries, suggesting as Sebastien wisely challenges a source above Huckabee’s pay-grade. While the obvious conclusion is that it is coming from Trump, I would argue that it is more likely sourced to someone close to Trump with an interest in damaging both the US-Israeli bond, but so too, the Settler movement as well. I would speculate that the most likely character to be able to influence Trump and to have such sentiments as supported in this scenario would be Masoud Boulos, as his Hezbollah connections and mechutanim relationship to Trump would seem to square this knot quite nicely.