Agent 76
Agent Hotshot
Rolling in 3…2…1. (sound is off for much of this, observe our characters)
“She's making movies on location…She don't know what it means…”
Agent 76
Agent Hotshot
Rolling in 3…2…1. (sound is off for much of this, observe our characters)
“She's making movies on location…She don't know what it means…”
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Sage, looking at this as the staged production that it was, I finally figured out what went wrong, and they had a HUGE problem.
The shooter was not shooting.
For whatever reason, the shooter was not shooting when he was supposed to. Which is why the Secret Service stood around for 5 minutes pretending NOT to hear the crowd shouting "THERE'S A SHOOTER ON THE ROOF!" while no one attempted to arrest or disarm the guy.
Because the shooter was not shooting.
So instead, they shot the shooter.
Trump's cue was to drop on the first shot. Which he did. Except as the videos show, the first shots were now going from the Secret Service sniper firing in the OPPOSITE DIRECTION from the stage.
After that everything went as planned, the makeup artist disguised as a Secret Service agent got the blood on (albeit poorly). The Secret Service moved the photographers from the back of the stage to the front so they could get the photos. And then the Secret Service broke protocol and staged Trump so he could fist-pump the audience and get The Money Shot.
If the shooter HAD shot when he was supposed to, it would have gone off perfectly. The shooter would shoot his blanks, the sniper would shoot the shooter, and Trump would triumphantly stand and fist-pump the crowd.
But for whatever reason, the shooter was not shooting, so they were forced to adjust, and that's where I think it went sideways. And that's why the first shots come from the Secret Service sniper, NOT the shooter, as scripted.
A HUGE screwup.
There are so many anomolies- and in general the acting is so poor all you have to do to realize it is total bullshit is watch any one of the actors through the sequence start to finish.