Mike Adams on the Acoustic Evidence

July 25, 2024

Mike Adams reports he has acquired 5 other recordings of the shooting taken from different locations. It is not clear by who and what the chain of custody has been. The one he first reported on is the Fox News recording from the podium where Trump was speaking.

Adams now says he can’t sustain the more than one shooter hypothesis. He now finds possible Secret Service complicity in the long time–a quarter of a minute–for the Secret Service to eliminate Crooks after the firing stopped. It is suspicious. But I find it difficult to believe that if the attempt on Trump was a deep state plot, an inexperienced kid would be relied on as the assassin. If there was a plot, the kid seems to be the patsy that covers up the plot.

I haven’t heard whether the additional audios have caused Martenson to modify his conclusion. I have heard no mention of Martenson’s point that the bullet that hit the man in the top corner of the stand a good distance above Trump must have had an upward trajectory. How do we account for this if Crooks elevation on the building top was above Trump’s? Crooks firing would have had downward trajectory.

My position remains the same. The acoustic evidence and the trajectory question must be analyzed by independent credentialed forensic experts. Mike Adams is a smart person, and he is approaching the issue in a sound way but he does not make his living analyzing acoustic evidence. Such fierce Trump opponents as the FBI and Homeland Security cannot be relied on for an honest analysis. It is such a dangerous and sensitive undertaking that no expert might be found to undertake it, just as few scientists were willing to analyze the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings. The expert who concludes more than one shooter would be denounced and demonized. It might be that the evidence simply cannot be confronted. Even people convinced that the attack on Trump was a deep state plot will argue that a coverup in necessary so that the American people do not lose confidence in their government.

We cannot risk yet another non-investigation like the two Kennedy assassinations and 9/11, but that is likely what we are going to get. The assassination attempt will become an internet issue, and as we know the internet is the realm of “conspiracy theories.”

The Best of Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, associate editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week’s first outside columnist, columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service, contributor to the editorial page of the Los Angeles Times, and columnist for the main French and Italian newspapers, and for Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles. He served in numerous academic appointments in US universities and was  appointed to the William E. Simon Chair for Political Economy at Georgetown University’s Center for Strategic and International Studies where his colleagues were Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, James R. Schlesinger (one of his former professors), and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Thomas Moorer. His article, “How the Law Was Lost,” was published in the January 1999 Cardozo Law Review.