By Mike Huckabee
September 24, 2024
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“It’s time for private security, Mr. President.”
That was Tyrus on Monday’s THE FIVE, talking directly to President Trump, and let’s hope Trump was listening (Tyrus is a former bodyguard for numerous celebrities and knows whereof he speaks.) This is what we said immediately after the first attempt on his life, when it seemed clear that, for whatever reason, the Secret Service hadn’t done its job.
“The President’s fight is inspiring,” Tyrus said, “but at this point, the gatekeeper is the one who won’t lock the gate...How many times have all these mistakes [seemed] to keep happening over and over again?...How many times are you gonna stand in the same house you’re getting shot [in]?...The Secret Service is not gonna protect him. These ‘mistakes’ --- I don’t believe in coincidence. These ‘mistakes’ keep happening. And then, lo and behold, his information’s getting out. Get private security…”
Judge Jeanine Pirro pointed out one challenge: that the President’s bodyguards need national security clearance, since “half” of these threats, she said, are coming from places like Iran. But Tyrus didn’t see a problem if Trump’s private protection team is in addition to the Secret Service. That’s the way to go. We see them as another level of security, to carefully assess vulnerabilities and fill in where needed --- and also to write appropriately scathing reports on what those vulnerabilities were.
Just as yesterday’s newsletter was being posted, the news broke about the “Justice” Department releasing a photo of the first page of a letter allegedly written by the more recent gunman in case his assassination attempt failed. It was to meant to apologize for his failure to get it done. It said he had tried to kill Trump because he was “unfit” and “destructive to America’s moral fabric.”
Like Tyrus, we’re hesitant to believe in coincidence, so we were fascinated by this series of video clips of President Biden played on Jesse Watters’ Monday night show. They say essentially the same thing the gunman did...
July 1: “The American people must decide whether Donald Trump’s assault on our democracy on January 6 makes him unfit for public office.”
January 8, 2021: “I’ve been saying for now well over a year, he’s not fit to serve.”
September 4, 2020: “Donald Trump is not fit to be the job of President be the Commander-in-Chief.” (I didn’t say they’d all be grammatical.)
February 7, 2018: “And he is literally putting to the test this invisible moral fabric…”
Gosh, wonder where the gunman was getting his talking points?
This guy had planned ahead; it’s reported that he left the handwritten letter, addressed “Dear World,” months ago in a box at a friend’s house. According to the federal court filing, the box also contained four cell phones, ammo, tools, “metal material,” pipe, and a series of letters, all similarly handwritten.
So, how did the FBI find out about the box? The person who was keeping it for the gunman, referred to in the court document as “civilian witness,” opened the box a few days after the assassination attempt, took a photo of that page of the letter and sent it to them.
It’s amazing how quickly the DOJ acted to release this letter, unredacted, considering it literally places a price on Trump’s head, offering a $150,000 bounty to the person who can “complete the job.” So, we join the many others who are now asking, WHY would the DOJ choose to release this inflammatory letter so soon after the event --- and, it must be noted, before the election --- when they typically take many months to release other so-called manifestos, if they ever release them at all?
Recall that they were claiming they held onto the manifesto of the shooter in Nashville because they didn’t want to inspire copycats. So, this screed by a wannabe Trump assassin WAS released because they DID...(we’ll let you finish that sentence)?
As Matt Margolis says at PJ MEDIA, by releasing this letter it’s almost as if the current administration was itself putting a bounty on Trump’s head. (Note: we don’t yet know if the $150,000 is real or if the gunman just said that.) As Don Trump, Jr., posted on X: “WTF!? Why is Kamala’s DOJ publicizing [the shooter] putting a bounty on my dad’s head??”
Former Attorney General Bill Barr is “dumbfounded” that the DOJ would release this letter with that part unredacted. He called the decision “rash,” adding that it “served no purpose other than to risk inciting further violence.”
It would be very hard to make the case that this wasn’t the purpose.
Former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker agreed, telling FOX NEWS’ Laura Ingraham Monday night that releasing this letter was “incredibly dangerous, irresponsible and shows a really poor judgment being exercised by, at least, the U.S. attorney’s office but most likely all the Department of Justice.” That part of the letter, he said, could have been redacted for the public. He believes that releasing this information was “purposeful” and done “recklessly.” Whatever decision is made, he observed, is “always the decision that harms President Trump the most.” It’s “so outrageous that it’s incomprehensible to me.”
Retired FBI criminal profiler James R. Fitzgerald said that because of the internet, there aren’t too many so-called “lone wolves” out there, that the Unabomber might have been “truly the last one.” Like Whitaker, he also didn’t understand why those particular words from the affidavit should have been made public. Normally, he said, threats to any specific person would have been redacted.
Follow the money, Fitzgerald said, when it comes to this suspect, who’d been traveling the world on someone else’s dime and reportedly had $68 in his account. (We’re wondering: does he have his own Kevin Morris?) With the contacts the gunman has, he must be a wellspring of information. For that reason, it’s good they got him alive, but Fitzgerald is concerned about a possible “Lee Harvey Oswald situation” (he means with a Jack Ruby 2.0) or an “Epstein situation.”
Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino began his Monday podcast just after the DOJ released the letter and spent about the first 30 minutes talking about this. His main point: “Folks, there’s something really sinister going on.” By “really sinister,” he meant “maybe beyond even the realm of fake collusion hoaxes, fake impeachment hoaxes, Spygate.” Like us, he’s concerned that with the way this is looking, Trump’s biggest challenge might be to survive until Election Day.
“Trump is being hunted,” he said, “by professionals who know exactly what they’re doing. And he thinks the golf course shooter, with his GoPro camera and ability to evade surveillance for weeks, was working with someone else.
A trusted source told Bongino at the end of last week that the Secret Service’s communication system may be almost entirely compromised. And “the people in charge of the Secret Service right now are not serious people,” so don’t expect them to fix it. He says they all need to be polygraphed. For now, expect them to dodge blame while Trump dodges bullets.
https://bongino.com/ep-2334-
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is asking the FBI for an unclassified briefing by Thursday on the Iranian hack of the Trump campaign. They demand to know, among other things:
--- What material did Iran obtain from the Trump campaign?
--- To whom at the Biden and/or Harris campaigns did the hackers send info?
--- (the big one) What actions did the Biden and Harris campaigns take?
https://justthenews.com/sites/
Monday morning, the gunman appeared in court, smiling intermittently, with DOJ prosecutors saying they’ll ask a federal grand jury to indict him on a formal charge of attempting to assassinate former President Trump. This could carry a maximum sentence of life in prison, but since it’s Trump, maybe the DOJ will ask for a few months. (Kidding, but with the understanding that the best comedy is based on truth.)
Specifics of what investigators found belonging to him are in the detention memo. These include six cell phones (!), one of which had Googled an escape route from Palm Beach to Mexico, and two sets of license plates. There are also details of phone calls the suspect made from jail that appear to admit what he had done. (Unless such calls are with his attorney, they are not private.) Next Monday, the gunman will be back in court for a “probable cause” hearing.
The court memo also says that the gunman traveled from Greensboro, North Carolina, to West Palm Beach a full month before the attempted shooting, and that he may have cased both the golf course and Mar-A-Lago multiple times during that month. Cell phone records show one of his phones “pinging” cell towers multiple times near both locations. Of course, we know that the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooter also cased his venue.
RELATED: Speaking of bounties on someone’s head, here are details from 2022 on the OTHER Iranian assassination plots, against former White House security adviser John Bolton and former CIA Director Mike Pompeo. A member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) allegedly used encrypted messaging apps to offer $300,000 for the death of Bolton and a reported $1 million for Pompeo.
Like the Iranian threat to assassinate Trump, these killings were called for in retribution for the drone strike in 2020 that killed Iranian General Kasem Soleimani, commander of the IRGC. Pompeo is reportedly getting security, but it’s hard to know what to think of that in light of the recent attempts on his former boss that were so very nearly successful.
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