To date, the explanations about the assassination from the Secret Service and the FBI smell like a cover-up. We need to know more.
“Thinking about the Unthinkable” is the title of a once famous 1962 book by Herman Kahn imagining scenarios for an all-out nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia. Perhaps it helped to prevent a nuclear war from occurring.
“Thinking the unthinkable” has become a trope. A Google search for the phrase will turn up dozens of books in various fields. Sometimes contemplating something so repulsive is necessary because the unthinkable does happen. We are not well-positioned to prevent the unthinkable from happening, or recurring, if we are unwilling to even imagine it. That was the premise for Herman Kahn’s book.
It is time to think the unthinkable about the assassination attempt on the life of presidential candidate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. Everyone knows it failed by less than an inch. What we do not know, and perhaps may never know, is how it was allowed to happen.What We Know Now of the Assassination Attempt
The latest is that a local cop warned the Secret Service days before the shooting that they should station someone on that fateful roof that was within easy shooting range of where the former President and leading presidential candidate was going to speak.
Plus the people supposedly guarding the former president saw a suspicious guy with a range finder near the roof. That’s the last straw for me. It is time to start thinking about the possibility that the shooter did not act alone and that someone somewhere wanted that roof to be left unprotected for some reason.
Yes, I served in government and I do know that the feds probably think the local cops are fools and would ignore their advice about how to do their job. That is certainly a possibility. And it also certainly is possible that the shooter acted alone and was enabled by gross bureaucratic incompetence. That happens.
But there are also more sinister possibilities that should be thoroughly investigated, and I am dubious that even a “bipartisan” congressional investigation will get to the bottom of it.
