Secret Service huddled photographers into the ideal angle.

SS violated its own protocol, allowing the target to return to vulnerability.

A flag on a crane was lowered AFTER the first shot.

Multiple folks informed security of the guy on the roof. They ignored the information.

The blood streak on Trump's right cheek isn't blood spatter, it's an arc made by a human hand.

No attending physician has ever made any statement on the record, ever. That's NEVER HAPPENED in our lifetimes.

Workers at the hospital, already under HIPPA rules, had to sign an additional NDA.

Ear cartilage was either undamaged, or miraculous regrew for the first time in recorded history.

NONE of these issues have been addressed, much less resolved.

" Killing the shooter was staged?"

Why would it need to be staged?

It's just collateral damage as far as Trump is concerned. If somebody has to die, fine. Heck, he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue; why not in Butler?

" If you actually believe what you wrote, you're in bad shape."

Feel free to explain the half dozen or so inconsistencies nobody has been able to explain. I posted them upthread.

Start with the attending physicians never making a public statement.

How many times has that happened in your life after assassination attempts?

" Maybe he was asked not to?"

When has that ever happened before in your life? That was my question.

"Why is he obligated to talk to reporters?"

AFTER an assassination attempt on the President of the United States?!? You're joking, right???

" Ever heard of HIPAA?"

Of course. I spent two decades on health committees, and was a Trustee of a Health and Pension Fund. Hence my unease when protocols are ignored.

"A doctor doesn't run to the media just because the patient is important."

I'll ask the central question again: How many assassination attempts in our lifetimes ended up with radio silence from the attending doctors?

The real reason? Trump wasn't hit. Cartilage doesn't regrow. And blood doesn't spatter in an arc.

"This would be an awful lot of trouble to stage."

Nonsense. Things like that are staged every day of the year in theatrical productions all across the country.

I was in a production one time where, at the top of the show, I played a character who'd just slashed his own wrists to get out of the service. His buddies were trying to calm him down when one of them says how bad can it be, and he takes the towel off my slashed wrist.

As soon as he did, blood started spurting out of my wrist, in the direction of the folks sitting in the front row.

What they didn't know, is the guy pulling off the towel was the same guy grabbing my arm and squeezing the bladder nestled there.

Stagecraft.

Meanwhile, there are still a half dozen unanswered questions about Butler.

" What exactly is your point?"

It doesn't pass the smell test.

Look at the list I provided. NONE of it passes the smell test.

Cartilage doesn't regrow. Trump had no damage when the pad was taken off. Blood doesn't spatter in an arc. Attending doctors hold press conferences after Presidential assassination attempts. The Secret Service would NEVER HAVE ALLOWED their protectee back in range.

It has all the earmarks (see what I did there?) of a photo-op.

"So why kill the shooter?"

You're joking, right??? Dead men tell no tales.

" Your post reads like this is all staged."

The photographers were huddled in one specific area, at the prime angle, and an American flag was lowered into the frame AFTER the shot rang out.

How does any of this pass the smell test???

"Staged"

" I made a joke about just that. Maybe they killed the guy so he wouldn't talk..I said."

You'd put that past Trump???

JFC, you're gullible.

" Trump is an opportunist."

You're missing the point.

Why did the flag come into the frame after the shot rang out ... right after photographers were huddled to the prime photo position?

Look at that picture again ... it's not composed that way by accident.