For those who believe Butler PA was "staged" or false flag...

[flashman13]

99. See my later post.

I've been a sport shooter for 60+ years and I consider myself a fair marksman.

Everything about the shooting is problematic. An AR 15 style rifle is the last thing anyone intent on making a kill shot would use. The weapon used had no bi-pod and had a very poor non-magnified optical sight. Note the difference between Crooks' weapon and the government sharp shooters. A capable shooter could have made the shot, but even then some luck would have been necessary. We know Crooks practiced the day before, but if that was his total experience, he was hardly a capable shooter.

Crooks was laying on his stomach, cradling the weapon in his hand on a hot tin roof. That is hardly the ideal shooting platform. The only shot that had any real chance of hitting Trump (discounting pure blind luck) would have been the first shot. That is the one time at which Crooks could have taken deliberate aim and slowly squeezed off at shot when he was sure he was on target. Even for a good marksman, under those circumstances, reacquiring the target for a second and subsequent shots, would be difficult. We also know Crooks had to have felt rushed because he knew he had been spotted. None of this contributes to any sort of marksmanship. After the first shot Crooks just keep pulling the trigger rapidly with little chance of hitting Trump.

Having said all that, maybe it was a real assassination attempt by a gross amateur and Trump just got lucky that Crooks was a poor shot. At a minimum, security was very lax and the fact that he could have been in a position to shoot doesn't speak very highly of the Secret Service.