Speaker Johnson’s Phony Task Force

By Cliff Kincaid

July 29, 2024

“I don’t think there was any big conspiracy” said Speaker Mike Johnson on the Kudlow show on Wednesday, regarding the attempt on the life of President Trump. How does he know? He made this statement without the benefit of the findings of his so-called bipartisan “task force” to investigate the mass shooting.

President Trump was almost murdered after a coordinated effort to jail and bankrupt him, which is still ongoing, and when that stalled, they tried to kill him. Johnson’s response is to ask House Democrat Leader Hakim Jeffries to join a bipartisan effort to get to the bottom of the incident, when the Democrats’ attacks on Trump as a dictator and Hitler inspired the attack.

This is another whitewash, much like so many other efforts to stonewall and cover-up the truth when federal agencies engage in “failures” and “incompetence.”

“I don’t think there was a big conspiracy,” said Johnson. “I think it was utter incompetence at the highest levels.”

Again, without the benefit of the facts, how does he know?

Perhaps Johnson is too young to have any knowledge of Ruby Ridge or Waco, in which federal agents murdered innocent people. Perhaps he doesn’t remember the FBI “failures” in the cases of the Atlanta Olympic Park bombing and the post-9/11 anthrax attacks, in which the agency fingered the wrong people.

But he must have some knowledge of the Capitol Police murder of Trump supporter Ashli Babbit on January 6 and the armed FBI raid on Trump’s Florida home. Still, he calls federal involvement in the July 13 assassination attempt “utter incompetence.”

No, Mr. Speaker, you are the utterly incompetent one. You are also naïve and ignorant.

Consider FBI Director Christopher Wray declaring during the hearing that he didn’t know if a bullet hit the president, only to backtrack when even the New York Times was able to analyze the sequence of events and determine that a bullet did, in fact, hit his ear.

A liberal newspaper that hates Trump apparently has more resources than the FBI.

This isn’t true, of course. The FBI knows what happened, and the director was lying about it.

“The FBI on Friday confirmed that Trump was struck on his right ear by a bullet,” reported the Reuters news agency, after Wray had issued official misinformation.

It’s clear that Wray, nominated by Trump, hates Trump, too. He ran the Russia-gate hoax, to benefit Trump’s opponents — Obama, Hillary, and Biden and the entire Democratic Party.

The difference now is that he is willing to lie under oath, as he did with his “shrapnel” comments. There is only one explanation for his now-retracted comments about Trump not getting hit by the bullet. He realizes Trump’s reaction to the assassination attempt has made him look like a real leader and therefore tougher to defeat in November. Hence, Wray wanted to play down Trump’s injuries by suggesting the bullet missed him.

This is the same Christopher Wray, during the same hearing, who said he found Joe Biden to be mentally alert and in control.

Another lie, possibly, is that the FBI was not aware of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the shooter, before July 13. I find it plausible, as Fred Gielow argues, that a federal agency, the Secret Service or the FBI, recruited Crooks at the local gun club.

He argues, “The plan could be presented to the shooter like this: Look, you can set up one or two accounts in Europe. We’ll deposit five million dollars in the accounts if you’re successful. We’ll guarantee that the FBI, Secret Service, and other law enforcement agencies will not bother you on the day of the shooting. We can take care of that. You don’t have to worry. And after you kill President Trump, we’ll guarantee you won’t be harmed and you can escape unscathed. If you carefully scout out the area beforehand, you’ll be able to easily get off a kill shot. We’ve seen you shoot. We know you can do this.”

This would explain Crooks’ intended use of explosives in his car, to be a diversion while he escaped on his bicycle, and his encrypted overseas accounts. His bicycle was left at the scene.

What this means is that federal agencies absolutely cannot be trusted.

The Democrats can’t be trusted, either, since they made Trump into a target, what Biden called a “bullseye.”

Therefore, the House Resolution “Establishing the Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump,” is a whitewash in the making. It passed 416-0.

On Kudlow, Johnson said the buck stopped at the desk of Alejandro Mayorkas of Homeland Security. False. It stops with Biden/Harris and the federal agencies supposedly charged with protecting their leading political opponent. We already know enough to implicate them in the plot.

The deadline for their “final report” is December, after the election. It really doesn’t matter, since the end result will be a cover-up of complicity by the federal agencies and the Democratic Party in the conspiracy to kill Trump.

After announcing this “task force,” Johnson announced the House was going on its August recess, August 2-September 8.

It’s business as usual on Capitol Hill, as Trump promises to return to outdoor rallies, to risk his life once again.

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