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John is right that early reports after a shooting are often wrong, and Steve is right that the establishment media are worthless. Fox News and CNN reported “loud bangs” at the Trump rally on Saturday, doubtless the same sort of loud bangs as on November 22, 1963, or June 6, 1968. Or were they “possible shots,” as CBS News reported? And check out the Sacramento Bee: “Trump ‘fine’ after shots fired at stage during Pennsylvania campaign rally; 2 dead.” That shooter drew a bead on the stage, just as Oswald targeted that Lincoln convertible and Sirhan Sirhan fired at the wall in the Ambassador Hotel.

About an hour after the assassination attempt on Trump, the FBI joined the investigation but some realities were already clear. The FBI did nothing to prevent the shooting, perhaps because the bureau’s current priority is followers of Donald Trump, not those who might want to kill him. In similar style in 2017, the FBI did nothing to prevent Bernie Sanders supporter James Hodgkinson from shooting at congressional Republicans as they practiced for a baseball game, nearly killed Steve Scalise and wounded several others. The FBI played no role in the takedown of the shooter and claimed it was a case of “suicide by cop,” as absurd as the “workplace violence” designation for Nidal Hasan’s mass murder at Fort Hood in 2009. In that case, the FBI knew Hasan was communicating with al Qaeda terrorist Nidal Hasan but dropped the surveillance.

If the FBI knew about the potential Trump shooter and looked the other way it would be no surprise. Neither would hiding evidence about the shooter and his motive, as in the murders of DNC operative Seth Rich and DNC whistleblower Philip Haney.

Last August, an FBI swat team shot dead Craig Robertson, a 75-year-old woodworker, based on threats against Joe Biden he allegedly made online. Back in 1992, FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shot dead Vicki Weaver as she held her infant child. Snipers are taught carefully to “acquire” the target, so there is little chance the killing was accidental, as the FBI claims.

The would-be assassin of Trump, at this writing identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, nearly killed the former president. The Secret Service is investigating how the gunman was able to get so close. In May, House Oversight and Accountability chairman James Comer wrote to Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle about “potential vulnerabilities within the Secret Service preventing it from fulfilling its mission to ensure the safety and security of its protectees.” The committee has launched an investigation into the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and requests Cheatle’s “voluntary appearance” at a hearing on July 22.