July 13, 2024 will go down in the history books for a number of reasons, among them that a single inch in a bullet’s trajectory may have altered the course of the entire world. Had the assassin’s bullet been one inch to Donald Trump’s left, instead of grazing his right ear it likely would have killed or gravely wounded him. And in that event, the man who may ultimately prove to be the greatest United States president since Abraham Lincoln would not have had the opportunity to reverse the great damage to this country that began with the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Because that’s what’s really at stake here. Since FDR we’ve seen: (1) the endless promulgation of federal regulation after federal regulation, crippling small businesses and the small businessman (who is the modern counterpart of Thomas Jefferson’s yeoman farmer) and hugely favoring large corporations that possess the resources to spread the cost of compliance over hundreds of stores, outlets, manufacturing plants, etc.; (2) crushing taxation of all classes, but especially of working class men and women who barely can make ends meet; (3) deficit spending in gigantic amounts; (4) the loss of American manufacturing jobs by the millions; (5) the importation of millions of serfs — also known as illegal aliens — for purpose of driving down salaries and wages of working men and women and thereby keeping them subservient to their Democratic and Progressive masters for things like food stamps, section 8 housing, child care credits, student loans, etc. and for the purpose of increasing the portion of the populace that votes Democrat (in addition to the dead people who always seem to vote Democrat).
Donald Trump makes no secret of the fact that he intends to reverse most of these trends, and this absolutely terrifies the Left. He has said he is going to “obliterate” (his term, not mine) the Deep State. Let’s pray that he succeeds. Happiness is millions of regulation-writing and regulation-enforcing government bureaucrats and apparatchiks being cashiered and forced to earn an honest living doing something productive in the private sector economy. The gain to America of this would exceed all bounds.
Getting back to the assassination attempt itself, the brave actions of the Secret Service agents at the scene of the crime were unfortunately overshadowed by the incompetence at the Secret Service’s highest level. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was appointed to that position around September 2022 by President Biden. Like so many other of Biden’s high-level appointments, she may have been a diversity hire (see where this is going?). Her qualifications for the job: she previously worked as the senior director in Global Security for Pepsi (congratulations to Breitbart News for ferreting this out). Prior to joining Pepsi, she was a Secret Service agent for 27 years, most recently as Assistant Director of the Office of Protective Operations.
But guarding cans of Pepsi Cola does not present quite the same challenges as guarding the President of the United States and former Presidents of the United States. So perhaps it’s no great surprise that a most obvious position for a sniper assassin on a rooftop only about 130 yards from Donald Trump’s podium wasn’t secured at all. In any world of rational Presidential candidate protection, there would have been Secret Service agents or local police stationed on that rooftop and on all other rooftops with a clear line of shooting sight to the podium Donald Trump would be using. This isn’t rocket science, folks, it’s merely common sense.
According to the FBI, the shooter was a 20-year-old named Thomas Matthew Crooks from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. As the authorities delve into Crooks’s background, it wouldn’t be surprising to find he was one of the millions of Americans who was gaslighted by the constant stream of vilification, lies, abuse, and filth emanating from the Mainstream Media against Donald Trump. Of course, the Mainstream Media can be counted upon to suppress this information if it does turn out to be the case, just like information about the Nashville shooter who shot up a Christian school has been kept hidden.
The now-famous photograph of a bloody but unbowed President Trump raising his fist in defiance of the shooter will take its place in history along with other iconic photographs, such as the photograph showing the raising of the U.S. flag over Mount Suribachi in the battle for Iwo Jima in World War Two.
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The attempted assassination will itself become another iconic moment in U.S. history, along with General Anthony McAuliffe’s refusal to surrender the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 (his response to the German commander was a single word: “Nuts”) and that great moment in which General George Washington, alone and bareheaded, knelt at night in the snow at Valley Forge and prayed to the Almighty for deliverance of the American cause in the Revolutionary War.
