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BAD NEWS: THE FBI IS INVESTIGATING John is right that early reports after a shooting are often wrong, and Steve is right that the establishment media are worthless. Fox News and CNN reported “loud bangs” at the Trump rally on Saturday, doubtless the same sort of loud bangs as on November 22, 1963, or June 6, 1968. Or were they “possible shots,” as CBS News reported? And check out the Sacramento Bee: “Trump ‘fine’ after shots fired at stage during Pennsylvania campaign rally; 2 dead.” That shooter drew a bead on the stage, just as Oswald targeted that Lincoln convertible and Sirhan Sirhan fired at the wall in the Ambassador Hotel. About an hour after the assassination attempt on Trump, the FBI joined the investigation but some realities were already clear. The FBI did nothing to prevent the shooting, perhaps because the bureau’s current priority is followers of Donald Trump, not those who might want to kill him. In similar style in 2017, the FBI did nothing to prevent Bernie Sanders supporter James Hodgkinson from shooting at congressional Republicans as they practiced for a baseball game, nearly killed Steve Scalise and wounded several others. The FBI played no role in the takedown of the shooter and claimed it was a case of “suicide by cop,” as absurd as the “workplace violence” designation for Nidal Hasan’s mass murder at Fort Hood in 2009. In that case, the FBI knew Hasan was communicating with al Qaeda terrorist Nidal Hasan but dropped the surveillance. If the FBI knew about the potential Trump shooter and looked the other way it would be no surprise. Neither would hiding evidence about the shooter and his motive, as in the murders of DNC operative Seth Rich and DNC whistleblower Philip Haney. Last August, an FBI swat team shot dead Craig Robertson, a 75-year-old woodworker, based on threats against Joe Biden he allegedly made online. Back in 1992, FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shot dead Vicki Weaver as she held her infant child. Snipers are taught carefully to “acquire” the target, so there is little chance the killing was accidental, as the FBI claims. The would-be assassin of Trump, at this writing identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, nearly killed the former president. The Secret Service is investigating how the gunman was able to get so close. In May, House Oversight and Accountability chairman James Comer wrote to Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle about “potential vulnerabilities within the Secret Service preventing it from fulfilling its mission to ensure the safety and security of its protectees.” The committee has launched an investigation into the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and requests Cheatle’s “voluntary appearance” at a hearing on July 22. Share Tweet MORE FROM POWER LINE ABOUT THE ASSASSIN [UPDATED] TRUMP’S TRIUMPH TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT [MULTIPLE UPDATES, SHOOTER IDENTIFIED? EYEWITNESS INTERVIEW] HEALTH OFFICIALS STRIKE AGAIN PODCAST: THE 3WHH ON RIFTS, RIFTS EVERYWHERE! Notice: All comments are subject to moderation. Our comments are intended to be a forum for civil discourse bearing on the subject under discussion. Commenters who stray beyond the bounds of civility or employ what we deem gratuitous vulgarity in a comment — including, but not limited to, “s***,” “f***,” “a*******,” or one of their many variants — will be banned without further notice in the sole discretion of the site moderator. 239 Responses Show/Post Comments Subscribe now!... GET RID OF ADS!SUPPORT POWER LINE...VIP MEMBERSHIPPRESENTSPower Line Donate to PL Donate with PayPal button Our Favorites American Greatness American Mind American Story American Thinker Aspen beat Babylon Bee Belmont Club Churchill Project Claremont Institute Daily Torch Federalist Gatestone Institute Hollywood in Toto Hoover Institution Hot Air Hugh Hewitt InstaPundit Jewish World Review Law & Liberty Legal Insurrection Liberty Daily Lileks Lucianne Michael Ramirez Cartoons Michelle Malkin Pipeline RealClearPolitics Ricochet Steyn Online Tim Blair Media American Spectator Breitbart City Journal Claremont Review of Books Commentary Daily Caller Fox News FrontPage Mag Memeorandum MEMRI National Review New Criterion New York Post Spectator World TownHall Wall Street Journal Washington Free Beacon Weekly Standard Subscribe to Power Line by Email Temporarily disabled NAVIGATION Home About Us Advertise Privacy Policy Economics by Publir SPECIALS Specials Select Category AUTHORS John H. Hinderaker Scott W. Johnson Paul Mirengoff Steven Hayward POWER LINE DAILY DIGEST YOUR EMAIL Power LineCopyright © 2020 by Power Line and respective authors.