On July 13, 2024, Donald Trump was almost assassinated by a gunman while he was giving a speech. I won't go into more details here because it's trivial to google for it.
There is, however, one thing I would really, really like to know about the whole thing.
The roof where the perpetrator was shooting from, was completely unsecured, both by secret service and the local law enforcement. This even though it's completely standard protocol to secure all building roofs that have such a clear line of sight to the VIP.
As far as I know, the current explanation (or excuse) is that there was a miscommunication between secret service and the police forces. In other words, the secret service thought that securing that particular roof was the task of the police forces (because it was too far from their area), while the police forces thought that it was secured by secret service (because they thought it was within their area). And, thus, nobody secured the roof because everybody thought it was the duty of the other team.
Or something along those lines. I suppose time will tell if that was actually the case. Or most likely not.
Anyway, what I would like to know is how the shooter knew to go to that one particular roof, from all possible.
"Well, maybe he scoped the place slightly before the speech started, noticed that there was nobody on that particular roof, and thus went there?"
Except that he had clearly planned to go to that roof well in advance. That's because he had purchased a ladder well before the event, and knew precisely where to put it in order to get to that roof. He had, quite clearly, planned going to that one particular roof, possibly even days in advance. He knew to bring a ladder, and exactly where to put the ladder and what route to take in order to get to the roof and to that position.
So it's relatively clear that he had planned to go to that particular roof, perhaps even days prior. It was also the only roof in the vicinity that was not secured.
How exactly did he know, in advance, to go to that particular roof?
Maybe it was just sheer luck and coincidence? Maybe he didn't know in advance that the roof would be unsecured, and it just so happened to be on the day of the event?
That would be some astronomical coincidence, I would say.
Heck, the entire thing was full of astronomical coincidences. This isn't the only one. This is just the one that's clearest, and the one I would really, really like to have a good explanation for.
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