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by RON PAUL
Just days after the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump, theories are flying from all directions. Many who ridiculed the “conspiracy theories” of conservatives are now suggesting the whole event was a set-up to boost Trump in the polls ahead of the election. Others suggest it was the “deep state” or even foreign actors who organized it.
Former US Navy Seal and founder of Blackwater, Erik Prince, claims that “The fact that [the Secret Service] allowed a rifle armed shooter within 150 yards to a preplanned event is either malice or massive incompetence.” He went on to observe that, “unaccountable bloated bureaucracies continue to fail us as Americans,” adding that “unserious and unworthy people in positions of authority got us to this near disaster. Merit and execution must be the only deciding factors in hiring and leadership, not the social engineering priority of the day.”
Video has emerged showing that for at least two minutes law enforcement knew someone with a gun was on a roof aiming at the former President and no one communicated the need to pull Trump from the stage. You can clearly hear the crowd warning law enforcement that someone was on the roof. Yet he was unhindered until the first shots rang out.
Considering this fact, Erik Prince has a point.
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If this is like any previous governmental foul-ups, we can expect hearings, investigations, and commissions that will actually serve to hide the official errors or even malicious intent by some in the government. That’s what government does no matter who is in office: protect itself from actual scrutiny and resist being exposed as incompetent or worse.
But what if there was a genuine investigation that actually revealed the truth about what happened at the Trump rally over the weekend? Could we rely on the mainstream media to even report it? This is the same media that, after Trump was clearly shot on live television, reported “Trump escorted away after loud noises at PA rally.” (Washington Post). And “Secret Service rushes Trump offstage after he falls at rally.” (CNN).
This is the same mainstream media that has been comparing Donald Trump to Hitler for years, and now pretends to be shocked that their vile rhetoric ended up in violence. There is a good reason why the mainstream media is regarded by the American public with record levels of contempt.
The current director of the Secret Service has been interviewed expressing her dedication to “diversity” in hiring agents. What if her dedication to DEI goals led to an agency that is more “diverse” but fails at its core mission? Can we rely on the media to inform us of this? Or will they, as usual, just blame it all on the Second Amendment?
What if the problem with the Secret Service is that it was moved into the bloated, incompetent, and menacing Department of Homeland Security, the creation of which I strongly opposed when I was in Congress?
We shouldn’t count on hearing the truth about the attempted assassination from the mainstream media. No wonder the elites remain determined to censor social media sites like Twitter/X and TikTok. We live in an empire of lies, propped up by the mainstream media. And seeking the truth in this empire of lies is the greatest challenge for us in the moral bankruptcy in which we live.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR …
Ron Paul is a former U.S. Congressman from Texas and the leader of the pro-liberty, pro-free market movement in the United States. His weekly column – reprinted with permission – can be found here.
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4 comments
Crooks really, really comes across as an alt-right loon. Who knows, maybe he saw what he was doing as both pushing like minded wingnuts to further acts of political violence – starting the “civil war” so many on the right crave – as well as turning his hero cult leader into a martyr.
The one I wouldn’t trust to report on what really went wrong that day is wRong Paul though. Dude wants to talk about not being able to trust the media. Has anyone read his newsletters?
“Crooks really, really comes across as an alt-right loon.” I guess you’re entitled to your opinion but I see some anarchist strains in this dude….and anarchists have been historically been the far left fringe. His parents are both career professional counsellors for their state’s equivalent of the department of social services…those types of orgs are bastions of the left, and those types of people are very rarely ever on the right. But hey, at this point I’m still gonna withhold judgement and repeat what I’ve said elsewhere on this site:
People on the left and right need to remember that there are some people out there who are just crazy…or have personal, nonpolitical reasons for their actions. Ronald Reagan’s shooter for example just wanted to impress an actress that he was obsessed with. The guy that shot Teddy Roosevelt thought that President McKinley’s ghost was telling him to do it. McKinley was shot by a guy who had lost his job in a prior national financial crisis and had turned to being an anarchist (so it was kind of both personal and political). The bottom line is we are only getting bits and pieces of this and proclaiming the shooter’s true motivations at this point is premature. Hopefully this guy left a manifesto around somewhere- that seems to be their preferred delusional, grandious way of leaving this world.
Whether or not you believe it was the driving cause behind this incident, there is no arguing against the fact that this has gained Trump more votes from undecided fence sitters, than a billion dollars in radio and TV ads, billboards, bumper stickers, and yard signs, ever would have gained him. The sympathy vote is a powerful thing. And let us not forget those suspiciously “staged” looking inspiring photos that are similarly inspiring like the flag being raised on Iwo Jima in WWII.
“unserious and unworthy people in positions of authority got us to this near disaster.”
That’s right. Donald Trump is about the most unserious and unworthy people around.
“This is the same mainstream media that has been comparing Donald Trump to Hitler for years”
Hey, Ronnie, it’s potential VP JD “Mandel” Vance who called Trump “America’s Hitler”.
Now eat your soup and go back to bed.