on Donning a three-layered tin foil hat August 7th, 2024. Bottom line first. We are three-week-a-talk. We are three weeks out from the assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life, and I think we are now

presented with two reasonable possibilities, two reasonable interpretations at a most general

level.

The first is that high-ranking federal officials wanted

Donald Trump dead and arranged for a set of circumstances that would make that

end result possible, likely, or certain. This could range from a sloppy and loose, let's look the other way and hope

for the best approach to an active and overt conspiracy to assassinate the former president.

Let us even grant such persons the narrative that they no doubt have going on in their very own heads,

which would be them believing that history will treat them as a slightly more successful Bonn offer.

That's one option. The second possibility is that they are covering something else up, with that something else being big enough in their eyes, that they don't really care if this makes it look like they were complicit in the assassination attempt itself. I say this because everything they are currently

doing sure makes it look like they were part of a conspiracy to kill the former president.

The thing they are covering up need not be an actual big deal. It just has to be a really big deal in their own imagination.

Now I'm using the term cover-up very broadly here, including activities that don't actually cover

anything up, but rather just stall or slow walk any true accountability.

I may have used this illustration before, but back when my father was a boy,

back when Major League Baseball only had one umpire,

there was a player who would run from first to third

whenever the ball was hit to the outfield.

The one umpire would run out to see the play in the outfield

and the cheater man would run behind him straight to third.

Everybody in the stadium could see it, of course, but the umpire didn't. This is like that. Everybody in the

country can see what is happening, but their hope is that come November we will still have the same crooked

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