{"id":292238,"date":"2024-08-01T05:58:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T05:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=292238"},"modified":"2024-08-03T05:31:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T05:31:36","slug":"sifting-and-winnowing-evidence-in-the-false-flag-trump-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=292238","title":{"rendered":"“Sifting and Winnowing”: Evidence in the False Flag Trump Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Barrett \u2013 The Unz Review July 25, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

In 2006 I was forced out of the University of Wisconsin for researching 9\/11 and drawing politically-incorrect conclusions.<\/a>* Ironically, the University\u2019s unofficial motto is \u201cfearless sifting and winnowing<\/a>.\u201d That expression is drawn from a famous plaque on Bascom Hill:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever may be the limitations which trammel inquiry elsewhere, we believe that the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.\u201d<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s break down that motto.<\/p>\n

\u201cFearless\u201d<\/strong> means overcoming fear of finding truths that you aren\u2019t going to like, and that may even damage your career and reputation. It\u2019s always better to set partisan emotions aside and dispassionately seek the truth, then let that truth form the basis of your emotional reaction, rather than let your emotional reaction dictate what you think is the truth. As scripture says, always \u201cascertain the truth<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSifting and winnowing\u201d<\/strong> implies looking through all the evidence and context in search of the most relevant items, discarding the ones that turn out to be weak, and highlighting what\u2019s important. It\u2019s an archaic \u201cwheat from the chaff\u201d metaphor from an age in which most people were familiar with agricultural work. Today, an honest and dispassionate search for truth may be as obsolete as sifting and winnowing grain by hand. But since I\u2019m an epistemological Luddite, I\u2019m still doing it that way. Your paid subscriptions to this Substack<\/a> make that possible.<\/p>\n

The July 13th \u201cTrump shooting\u201d is obviously the kind of event that requires fearless sifting and winnowing. The official story is brilliantly summarized<\/a> by the inimitable James \u201c9\/11 in 5 minutes<\/a>\u201d Corbett:<\/p>\n

On July 13, 2024, former US President Donald Trump was giving a speech at a (s)election campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania, when a 20-year-old who was kicked out of his high school rifle club for being a dangerously bad shot climbed up on the completely unsecured roof of a building being used as a police staging area within 150 metres of the former president. Before shooting, that you man spent minutes fumbling around on the roof while concerned onlookers desperately tried to warn law enforcement officials of a man with a gun. The counter-snipers at the rally, perched on a sloped roof behind the president, scoped out the man (who had already been spotted by police and even confronted by one police officer) on the roof (a roof that couldn\u2019t be secured because it was sloped) and waited until he successfully fired on Trump before they fired back at him. The would-be assassin died, as did a 50-year-old fire chief in the crowd. Trump, only grazed in the ear, boldly climbed to his feet just in time for a picture-perfect publicity stunt. Then he shouted \u201cFight! Fight! Fight!\u201d before being led off stage by his valiant Secret Service detail.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the official story of the attempted Trump assassination, and if you question any part of it then . . . congratulations. You\u2019re a conspiracy realist whose head is screwed on straight and who knows even a little bit about actual history.<\/p>\n

Since the official story obviously lies somewhere between wildly improbable<\/em> and a complete joke<\/em>, we need to start fearlessly sifting and winnowing, beginning by asking the million dollar question: cui bono<\/em>? Who gains? Since we know the American oligarchy includes both pro-Trump and anti-Trump factions, the obvious possibilities are (1) a botched assassination attempt by the anti-Trump faction, or (2) a fake assassination attempt by the pro-Trump faction. As my regular readers know, I think the preponderance of evidence favors alternative #2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t mean that all of the evidence for that hypothesis is what it seems. Two items of evidence I had cited in previous articles have turned out to be weak.<\/p>\n

First, and most importantly, the claim by an anonymous \u201cSecret Service ballistics expert\u201d reported by the AP<\/a>\u2014that an actual 5.56 round would have likely ripped Trump\u2019s ear off and caused a huge concussion\u2014has turned out to be false or at least exaggerated<\/a>. How exaggerated? Can gun expert readers help me clear this up? The AP expert suggested that even a smaller, less powerful handgun bullet that nicked an ear would likely cause a serious concussion, due to its shockwave, and that a much higher-energy assault rifle bullet like the 5.556 one that supposedly hit Trump\u2019s ear would presumably cause an even worse one. Yet there is no evidence that Trump suffered a concussion.<\/p>\n

I wonder if my gun-savvy expert readers can convince me that the \u201cSecret Service ballistics expert\u201d was totally wrong, and that bullets can graze a person\u2019s head without their shockwave doing any damage whatsoever. Would you, dear reader, volunteer to have a handgun bullet whiz less than an inch by the side of your head, and expect to suffer no concussion? If so, would you also volunteer for the same experiment with an 5.56 round from an AR-15 at 400 feet? (Assuming, of course, that you could be assured that the bullet would pass within an inch of your skull, but not hit it.) These are real, honest questions. I don\u2019t know the answer, nor am I assuming anything. The bullet that once whizzed by my head didn\u2019t come close enough to settle the issue from personal experience.**<\/p>\n

Another seemingly damning but deceptive item of evidence is the video<\/a> that appears to show a Secret Service sniper firing the first three shots, the second of which allegedly struck Trump\u2019s ear. I have been convinced by several astute commenters that the Secret Service sniper is probably reacting to shots, not taking them. If I\u2019m wrong, drop a comment explaining why.<\/p>\n

And speaking of astute comments, here is one that offers a seemingly plausible scenario explaining what really happened in Butler<\/a>.<\/strong> It hinges on an aspect of the event that I haven\u2019t yet written about: the evidence for a second shooter on the water tower. Is this scenario plausible? Why or why not? If you can find convincing evidence for or against it, please drop the links in the comments section.***<\/p>\n

Another issue I didn\u2019t address in previous articles is Trump\u2019s apparent lie that \u201cmy hand was covered with blood<\/a>.\u201d Is this relevant? Why or why not?<\/p>\n

And how about the Secret Service \u201cdog that didn\u2019t bark\u201d? Letting a bumbling, autistic 20 year old amateur scope out the site with a drone, bring a gun and a ladder, and spend at least a few minutes getting into firing position in full view of witnesses <\/a>who fruitlessly kept pointing and screaming at the Secret Service \u201cthere\u2019s a guy with a gun on that roof\u201d seems a tad odd. Even odder is the Secret Service\u2019s willingness to let Trump get his fist-pump photo op, which exposed the former president to more potential shots. So who\u2019s crazy: people who explain it away as incompetence, or those who doubt that Trump or any other Secret Service protectee would still be alive if the world\u2019s premier protective detail were really the Keystone Cops?<\/p>\n

And then there is the issue of the \u201cmagic bullet\u201d allegedly photographed by Doug Mills. Were the odds against Mills getting this iconic photo, worth millions in publicity and even more as \u201cproof\u201d of the official story, really one in a million<\/a>? If not, what were the actual approximate odds? And does the bullet path in the photo fail to line up with Trump\u2019s ear<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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There are undoubtedly more questions about the spectacular and spectacularly dubious 7\/13 \u201cmagic ear shot\u201d event that deserve to be sifted and winnowed. What, in your opinion, are the most important ones?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll conclude with the words of Barrie Zwicker, a mainstream Canadian journalist who was marginalized after 9\/11 due to his excellent work exposing the absurdity of that official story. I sought Barrie\u2019s opinion thanks to another of my many astute commenters. Barrie replied to my email:<\/p>\n

\u201cLike Kevin, it took my skeptically-inclined mind really just minutes to spot the signs of a false flag op in the alleged assassination attempt on Trump. Besides multiple one-in-a-million odds regarding Trump being \u201cnicked in the ear\u201d by a bullet from an AR15, how about the timing? Much too convenient. Major red flag there. Alleged shooter promptly dispatched. So can\u2019t testify, no kidding. The raised fist. The American flag as backdrop, Iwo Jima style. \u201cGod saved me,\u201d declares one of the most God-forsaken sinners history has ever produced. Trump even sounded <\/em>scripted, and we know he hates teleprompters. He hates anyone<\/em> telling him to do anything. <\/em>But he grudgingly goes along with the plotters and performed his role in the theatrical details. He is <\/em>a performer, after all. A bad actor, in every way. Then there\u2019s the key and central question: cui bono<\/em>\u2013who benefits? And the obvious answer: Trump and his deceitful far right wing movement are the beneficiaries. It was a psyop alright. Although, as Kevin points out, so many people have lost their minds already<\/a> that also constitutes piling-on. I hold the faint hope that this particular deception will be exposed, and fainter still that if it is, that it will be in time to expose the plotters. My hopes are up against the record: false flag ops always go investigation-free.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is Barrie\u2019s distaste for Trump misleading him? Or is it, in this instance, serving him well\u2014like his distaste for Bush and Cheney helped him quickly get 9\/11 mostly right? Let me know what you think.<\/p>\n

*Prior to being blacklisted for my 9\/11 scholarship I was never turned down for any of the many temporary teaching positions I had applied for at UW-Madison. My late friend and \u201cIslam and literary studies\u201d mentor Muhammad Umar Memon<\/a> was a member of the first UW-Madison hiring committee that ever turned me down. That position was the spring 2007 \u201cIslam: Religion and Culture\u201d class. Dr. Memon privately said he and other members of the hiring committee were told by the university administration that I must not be hired due to my 9\/11 notoriety. Meanwhile another insider, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Humanities Dean Howard Ross, became a whistleblower by publicly stating that I had already been selected for a heavily-federally-funded tenure-track Islam and Humanities position at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater when a member of the hiring committee with administration connections forced the committee to withdraw the prepared offer \u201cbecause Barrett has screwy views on 9\/11.\u201d Ross alerted me to the situation with an email headed: \u201cYou were discriminated against.\u201d (Unfortunately, discrimination on the basis of political views is legal in Wisconsin.) Rather than hire me, the university returned the money to the feds and closed the position. It was re-opened a few years after that, and a less-controversial friend of mine ended up getting the job.<\/p>\n

**In February 2021 I was cross country skiing in the forest between Long Lake and the Wisconsin River when I felt the buzzing shockwave of a bullet at the exact instant a thick tree branch five feet from my head splintered with a tremendous bang, followed by a different, thunderously loud bang of a gunshot from off in the distance. Hoping it was a mistake by some lunatic hunting out of season, I yelled several times at the top of my lungs: \u201cDon\u2019t shoot!\u201d Then I skied home and called the police. They spent several hours doing an investigation that consisted of knocking on neighbors\u2019 doors and chatting. Late that night they returned to my house saying that they had identified the likely shooter as one of my neighbors. They said the shooting was a reckless mistake, that they had put the fear of God into the guy, and that he almost certainly wouldn\u2019t do it again, but that if I wanted to press charges they could return the next day to search for the bullet and build a case. Since I knew the likely identity of the shooter\u2014an ex-military neighbor with PTSD who occasionally annoyed other neighbors by firing heavy weapons in his yard\u2014and since I had heard from my wife and son who knew him and his family that he was a good guy and even a supporter of my \u201cconspiracy theories\u201d\u2014I declined to press charges. Later I befriended K-, who turned out to be an alright guy who will, I trust, have learned enough from the experience to stop taking careless potshots at shadows in the woods.<\/p>\n

***Audio forensics evidence ought to shed light on the issue of how many shots came from where and when.<\/p>\n

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