Dr. Alan Sabrosky returns for another “first Friday of the month”appearance. He emailed me:

“Let’s do three themes from FFWN:

1. Candace Owens and the primacy of Jews to Trump

2. Trump & Harris: Fallout of the Butler faux “assassination” attempt

3, Middle East tensions grow (how could they not with asymmetrical assassination as a weapon?)”

Dr. Alan Sabrosky is the former Head of Strategic Studies at the US Army War College. He expresses his Jewish heritage via cuisine, not foreign policy.

Excerpt from the interview:

This is indeed the first Friday of the month, which is the day that Dr. Alan Sabrosky comes on to talk about: How can things get any crazier than they were last month? And I’m afraid I can’t imagine what it’s going to be like next month, because this last month was as nutty as it gets. Where do we even start, Alan?

That’s a really good question. Just when you think things can’t get any worse, they do. Which is one of those intriguing things that makes Murphy’s Law seem like the 11th Commandment.

I guess there’s a couple of things, just a couple of observations, and then I’d like to get into Candace Owens, because I reread the article on her. And I had an odd reaction on the second reading.

I guess there are two things from last month. One is the assassination (attempt). I’m very much with Mike Walsh on this, it just doesn’t make any sense. None of the official details make any sense. It’s almost like it was staged by a grade B studio on a very tight budget, with the keystone cops in attendance who just happened to be (firing) live ammunition and (causing) fatalities.

It doesn’t make any sense in some very elementary ways. I mean, forget the idea that they saw this guy climbing up on a roof and they didn’t do anything for a while.  On the rest of it, the notion that someone’s ear is nipped—now that’s the Hollywood technique (from a) 19th century western… it’s not a high velocity bullet. You you tap an ear with a round and it’ll take most of the year off. There’ll be blood spattered everywhere. Facial and head wounds bleed copiously. Ever cut yourself shaving? I have. You know what the effect of it is. There’s blood everywhere, fast, all the way on the side of the head, down the shirt, on the collar. It would be all over. (It’s) not there.

Yeah, but he had some really nice warpaint.

Yeah. On this side. Not on the side where the bullet hit. Supposedly on the right here. This guy supposedly got off his (8) shots. Now if the first one didn’t do the job, why did the other seven just spray around the crowd instead of continuing to shoot at the target, which by then was almost stationary. And the upper part of the chest and the head were fully exposed. I mean, if I were up there… I certainly wouldn’t be negotiating my surrender. That’s not going to happen.

The thing that struck me immediately after that was that…Sort of like Lee Harvey Oswald . And it was really, really intriguing. And maybe it’s real. I don’t know. But I can’t imagine anyone on the Democrat side seriously wanting him dead. They want him in jail. They want him ruined. They want him off the election trail. Sure, there’s that much.

But the one thing that could actually incite his base and send them back to their homes to get their ARs and shotguns over the mantelpiece and out of the closet would be to have their Messiah, as it were, the secular Messiah, Donald Trump, be shot and killed by a Democrat agent. That’s the one thing that would do it. And so they weren’t going to do it. They simply weren’t going to do it. And I can’t think of anyone else who would.

The whole establishment might actually unite on what they don’t want. Nobody really wants Trump dead, except for maybe some idiots. But the establishment insiders know that the Democrats don’t want Trump dead.

Because it would destabilize the country and they would be in Syria.

They would be hated.

They would be more than hated. More than hate. They would be removed.

Right. And the Republican insiders, presumably, at least the Trump loyalists—most of them obviously don’t want Trump dead either. At this point, they’re just riding their horse, and Trump is the horse. So since both sides don’t want Trump dead…

Right, but to have him be very, very, very slightly injured and give your company a fist on it, and his anointment guaranteed…Whoever would want that could do it. One of the things is, they let him climb on the roof, they let him take his shots, they killed him so he couldn’t talk.

Yeah, and I agree, Alan. I think that’s the most likely explanation for these bizarre facts that don’t really line up any other way.

I kept thinking about these things don’t make any sense. They simply don’t make any sense. I’ve been through these a number of times before. I was 22 years old when JFK was assassinated. And I remember all of the details that came up at that time, and what we knew at that time and how people reacted to it. And absolutely none of them afterwards ever showed anyone pointing up at the book (depository) building. None. They’re all pointing ahead to a grassy knoll.

And a lot of these people were combat veterans. This was just after Korea and World War II.

There were combat vets under every bush. But they weren’t looking up. They were looking out. That’s where they heard the shots from. And I immediately hit that. I said, this doesn’t make any sense at all.

Now, if Trump looked like he was going to beat Hillary Clinton and she was already anointed as the Democrat candidate, I could see Hillary Clinton with her past record figuring, “well, cool, won’t miss another one.” But other than that, it’s not likely to have happened—not as a planned, hostile act from anyone outside of the Trump camp seriously intending to kill him. I can’t believe that.

Yeah, I agree. Now, getting back to that alleged ear wound, which many of us suspect is kayfabe—kayfabe is is a professional wrestling term for “fake.” In a fake fight in professional wrestling if they need blood they take a blood capsule and smear it on their ear or whatever…

There was something I saw not not a month before about an assassination attempt, and they said that there’s something like that that that actors also used…they would have it between their fingers or in the palm of their hand and whatever was supposed to be hit you know they would hit with it and there’d be a spattering of blood…

So Trump hits the deck. He comes up with streaks of blood on the wrong side of his face. And we see a picture of blood on his ear, but we don’t see any wound on the ear. And then two weeks later, he finally takes off his bandage at his meeting with Netanyahu. And there’s no visible damage to the ear. So to me, that makes it more likely that there was some kind of fake blood stunt than anything else.

Now, you said that if there was a wound, a real wound from that caliber bullet, that it would have been a lot worse. And there’s a big discussion about this on the Internet. Some people disagree. A Secret Service ballistics expert was quoted by the Associated Press saying what you just said, which is that even a handgun bullet would probably risk a concussion coming that close.

Some handgun bullets, a .40 or .41 caliber, a very high-velocity weapon, a .357 Magnum or .44 Magnum, or in this case a .223.

You said that it might even rip the year off. And that’s what the (AP-cited Secret Service) expert said.

Part at least, part of the ear. Part of the year up in there, depending on where it hit. These things are are intended…as soon as there’s even a slight impact they start tumbling and they tumble, they tear…It’s instantaneous. How much damage is actually done depends on the precise point of impact. If it hit here for example inside the lobe of the ear there’d be more damage than if it just hit up on the side.

You don’t have to give a live demonstration with live rounds.

Sorry, just getting my earphones okay. So…Depending on where the where it hit there would be a different degree of damage, of course. But you couldn’t hit anywhere and not cause substantial damage and spattering of blood.

Right. And so why would Trump not show off his wound if he’d really been hit by a bullet in the ear? That’s like PR gold. He should have been flashing that wound everywhere. It should have been on all the front pages. It should have been all over the Internet. But…nothing. He just covered it up with a bandage.

If he had been a little more ballsy and less of a showman, he would have gone back home and had someone with a pistol shoot off that part of the ear.

Apparently he didn’t feel the need to do that, which tells you something about the degree of control of our media these days.

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