Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt

Rogan rejects claims that the Butler shooting was staged, arguing no shooter could deliberately nick an ear at that distance.

“there's not a fucking chance in hell that you can nick someone's ear with a bullet at that distance and be that accurate”

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Rogan speculates that someone groomed and directed Thomas Crooks to attempt to shoot Trump, without asserting it was U.S. intelligence.

“someone talked that young kid into getting on that roof and trying to shoot Trump”

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Rogan says people who believe the Butler shooting was staged know nothing about guns.

“the people that thought that the Butler, Pennsylvania one was staged don't know anything about guns”

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Rogan argues the Butler shooting could not have been staged because no one could reliably nick an ear at that distance.

“there is not a person on earth that could nick your ear at 140 yards reliably”

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Frisella believes the Butler shooter did not act alone and was manipulated.

“But I agree that it wasn't just some dork with a rifle, and he was somehow, you know, MKUltra-ed”

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Frisella believes the Butler shooter was manipulated in the manner he attributes to many mass shooters.

“I believe that the person who did that in Butler was a product of the MKUltra manipulation like a lot of these mass shooters are”

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Jiang argues the Butler shooting was a staged Leviticus-style anointing ritual, citing the wounded right ear and removed left shoe.

“So I think that's what happened at Butler. I think it was a staged event in order to anoint Trump for the special mission ahead of him”

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Carolla argues that given the government's efforts against Trump, a government-sponsored assassination attempt should be open for discussion.

“Why is an assassination attempt sponsored by the government? Why is that not a conversation we can have if”

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Kelly notes that the Secret Service reportedly did not speak with Helen Comperatore until about a year after the shooting.

“the Secret Service didn't even come to talk to her until something like a year after the events at Butler, Pennsylvania”

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Owens called for the Butler investigation to be reopened and characterized Corey Comparatore's death as a successful assassination.

“It should be reopened. And I think it was a successful assassination of Corey Comparatore”

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Carlson relays Joe Kent's view that the Butler shooting investigation was closed prematurely and that Crooks may not have acted alone.

“We can be fairly confident that Thomas Crooks pulled the trigger. We cannot be confident at all that he acted alone”

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Kent says NCTC was blocked from examining possible links between the Asif Merchant plot and the Butler shooting.

“I wanted to look for potential linkage between those events, was completely shut off and blocked from that”

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