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Dan in AZ's avatar

Robert Barnes last night tied together a lot of factors, including the Iran angle, in an "alternative" analysis. Barnes really believes this was a deep state JFK-RFK-MLK-X-Wallace-Nixon take out plot. Crooks is an Oswald-type patsy. We now know there were govt snipers in the same building (concealed and non-elevated, does that make sense?). Plotters would NOT trust the kill shot to a kid who couldn't make the HS rifle club. Does the flat trajectory angle in the now-famous photo showing the bullet wake match the rooftop-podium elevation? As it happened, the non-SS police sniper (not in on it) killed the kid too soon (note, was not given a preemptive green light and claims to have been ordered to wait on his shot). So, no followup shots on Trump. There are already photos of the FBI hosing off the rooftop crime scene (ie, scrubbing). Iran would be implicated as the IC is already doing. If target went down, then plotters would have caused site chaos through explosives (recall there were allegedly detonators on Crooks' body). The main play was to knock off Trump before the VP announcement/nomination, install Haley in a rah-rah moment to rally all-in support for a retaliatory war on Iran. The entire succession process was in place, but all went out of whack because of the head turn. And, true to form, the planners had no Plan B in case of failure.

Trump understands it all, that's why he rushed VP announcement, choosing the neocons' most reviled option, and rushed his own nomination to cement the ticket. Barnes also claims that RFKJ phone call video was deliberately leaked by Trump. Biden asking Trump "Why did I move my head?" which is indeed an interesting question from a certain point of view.

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Jeff Cook-Coyle's avatar

It is starting to feel like the end of the Soviet Union, when the lies couldn't hold up any longer. People now, broadly, have no trouble considering in public that this may be more than incompetence. And if you look at not just the number but the caliber of people (and cases being made). I think that the jig is nearly up. They took their shot, and by the grace of God, they missed.

And also notably like the collapse of the Soviet Union; I believe that it will remain peaceful.

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