Basically put the chances at zero that Crooks and Routh were able to get as close as they did, without some sort of help.
Maybe... This time we have a healthy Routh to question. It'll be interesting what, if any, information we get from him on any of this.
The dude is a convicted felon and broke multiple laws to get to the fence with a rifle. Your logic is that we're just 1 law short of stopping someone like him?
The ex MAGA weirdo didn't fire his weapon. There were no shots taken by the would be assassin.
If a would-be assassin fires a shot, the Secret Service is either incompetent or part of a conspiracy.
That's exactly how you deal with fascist pigs.
To me it smacks of Epstein “committing suicide”.
Modern day jackboots. Seriously messed up. Happening in our country.
They were coming from across the street. Could be they were checking out what might have been considered a threat of some sort. Who knows without seeing the post. If they truly wanted to intimidate him they sure were wimpy about it.
Appears they had the wrong house at first (classic FBI incompetence).
They were coming to talk to him because he posted on Twitter that anyone who killed Kamala Harris would be an "American hero." That seems like the kind of thing the FBI might want to look into. Doesn't sound extraconstitutional at all.
No it doesn’t. That’s not within their purview at all.
She's a sitting Vice President. There are special laws about threats made against her, aren't there?
He didn’t make a threat against her. There is the law and then there is what you wish the law would be.
No, but what he posted was at least threat-adjacent enough that I understand why the FBI might send a couple of guys to follow up.
That kind of latitude is the death of law enforcement and the legal system to boot.
Seems like if that’s the standard, they’re gonna be visiting a whole hell of a lot of people.
Fair point. It's probably because he posted it under the banner of an actual political party, rather than as some online rando.
If some of the leftists on this board haven't been paid a visit by the FBI, then this guy sure as hell shouldn't have been.
Wonder if FBI visited Biden when he talked about putting Trump in the bullseye?
There are special laws against protestors on private property of Supreme Court members like Brett Kavanaugh that were ignored.
There are? Which laws? I don't disbelieve you, just don't know which laws you're talking about.
It falls under “limits of free speech”. I found this through “Hey, Siri, is it illegal to protest on the private property of a Supreme Court justice?” - There is a federal law that prohibits the attempt to interfere with the administration of justice or attempt to influence the outcome of a particular case either by protesting in or near a courthouse or the residence of a judge or by using some form of sound amplification.
Walking across the lawn of a judge’s private residence is not, but protesting a case the judge is involved in while walking across his grass is.
Freedom of speech has its limitations when it comes to crowd safety.
