The Trump Assassination Attempt Was a Conspiracy

I'm growing a beard, but I still use Hanlon's Razor: "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

I prefer to end the [other] Scrantonian’s quote with the word "incompetence."

Smart people also do stupid things, thanks to their own or others' incompetence, rather than a lack of intellectual firepower.

But wait! There's more!

While German polymath Goethe didn't get a razor, he birthed a similar sentiment.

"Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness."

And there you have it: stupidity, incompetence, misunderstanding and neglect.

Why the United States Secret Service failed to stop a shooter from winging former President Trump, killing one spectator and wounding two others.

Or is it?

Unbelievable Lapses

Normally, the mainstream media immediately focuses its coverage on a high profile killer's motives, looking to score political points by emphasizing or de-emphasizing the shooter's party affiliation.

This time, the MSM has zeroed-in on the numerous security failures that led to eight bullets whizzing into the Trump rally.

Here are some of the key revelations, via The New York Post.

The Secret Service blamed local police for failing to secure the rooftop from which gunman NAME REDACTED attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump, insisting it was outside the perimeter the federal agency was tasked with protecting...

Neighbors living near Butler Farm Show Grounds told The Post they were never visited by any law enforcement agencies — local or federal — in the days before or during the rally...

Attendees reported seeing 20-year-old Thomas Crooks acting suspiciously near rally metal detectors, according to CNN, with local law enforcement being notified and broadcasting warnings over their radios to the Secret Service to be on the lookout for him.

He was also reportedly seen with a rifle outside a security checkpoint to gain entrance into the rally, and later spotted jumping “roof to roof” before settling on the AGR factory.

Those are just the failures we know about, now. That point to a scarcely credible cascade of failures.

Yes, there is that.

What are the odds of so many failures by so many "security professionals" in one place and time?

[Update: Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle claims that the sloped roof (used by the shooter) was too dangerous to deploy an agent.]

The Fish Stinks From the Head Down

In the aviation world, one person is responsible for handling failures: the Pilot in Command. A responsibility that starts before the plane takes off.

The same is true in the security business: there is always a designated decision maker. A leader.

In all the reports on the Trump rally, none has revealed the name of the Secret Service Agent in charge at the Trump rally.

Was anyone fully in charge? Was it the same person before and during the event?

While the name(s) will emerge, there's plenty of blame to go around. Including the agents who failed to remove the former President effectively or efficiently from the kill zone.

Meanwhile, lest we forget, the Secret Service falls under the Executive Branch, run by the [current] President of The United States.

News flash! President Biden will not take responsibility for any part of the attempted assassination of his political rival.

Not for his inflammatory rhetoric. Not for his choice for the head of the Secret Service. Not for the Agency's performance under his watch.

Instead, get ready for a parade of public prevarication, stonewalling, blame shifting and spin doctoring.

Like Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle's post-shooting statement assertion that "protecting the current and former leaders of our democracy... is a responsibility that I take incredibly seriously."

"Incredibly" being the operative word.

Conspiracy Revealed!

All this mendacious mishegas will fuel the conspiracy theorists who believe Donald Trump was targeted for assassination by more than one person. And rightfully so!

What happened on the fateful day in Butler, Pennsylvania was a conspiracy. With apologies to John Kennedy Toole, it was a conspiracy of dunces.

Most people define a conspiracy as a secret coordinated effort to commit an evil and/or illegal act.

But groups can also secretly conspire to commit a well-intentioned, legal act. Like, say, guarding a former U.S. President against assassination.

The Secret Service and their subcontractors worked undercover to create layers of presidential protection – that turned out to be both disconnected and tissue-thin.

Clearly, unavoidably, inarguably, the Secret Service Et al. proved themselves massively, stupidly incompetent.

Not to mention unforgivably lax and lazy; slow to react before, during and after the first shots were fired.

So yes, by their stupidity and (I’m thinking arrogance), the Secret Service Et al. conspired to get Donald Trump killed.

To close the door on something darker we need to move...

From One Razor to Another

Occam's Razor states that the simplest explanation for an event is most likely to be true.

A conspiracy to commission NAME REDACTED to shoot President Trump would be a complicated business, requiring a lot of failure-prone logistical planning and a highly coordinated, air-tight, ongoing cover-up.

An assassination attempt as a result of a conspiracy of dunces failing to do their job would be... business as usual for any government agency. Especially one that's proven itself so good at being so bad for so long.

Bottom line I'm with Hanlon and Occam. You?

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