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July 2024.
As part of the program Regional Initiative for combating disinformation “Western Balkans Combatting disinformation Center: Exposing malicious influences through fact-checking and Analytical Journalism“, we present you a new analysis of fake news and disinformation narratives.
Was this an attempt by the state security services to kill Trump?
https://srbin.info/svet/je-li-ovo-bio-pokusaj-sluzbi-drzavne-bezbjednosti-da-ubiju-trampa/?lang=lat
The attempted assassination of former U.S. President and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, which occurred on July 13th, has been a major topic in global media in recent weeks.
Twenty-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at Donald Trump during a campaign rally in the town of Butler, Pennsylvania, causing minor injuries. The attacker was swiftly killed by U.S. Secret Service agents. Despite strong condemnation of the attack and political violence from leading politicians, and calls for restraint and reducing the “political temperature,” including from figures close to Trump’s campaign, various (unsubstantiated) speculations and claims of a “conspiracy” against the current leading candidate in this year’s presidential election have spread across numerous media outlets and social networks in recent times.
In this context, an illustrative analysis written by American political commentator Paul Craig Roberts on his own blog, and republished in the domestic media Srbin.info under the title “Was this an attempt by the state security services to kill Trump?,” stands out. The author argues that security lapses at Donald Trump’s campaign rally were so serious that they suggest intentional incompetence or even a “conspiracy” within the U.S. state security apparatus. “Several independent security experts noted several unprecedented security lapses at Trump’s rally by the secret services,” the text on Srbin.info portal states.
Paul Craig Roberts believes that possible explanations for these lapses lie in the incompetence or intention of the security services. It is emphasized that “in all federal government services, including the military, ability and merit have been sidelined to appoint people based on race and gender.” Nevertheless, the author’s claim focuses on the possibility that the lapses could have been deliberate, given the “hostility and hatred of the ruling elite and the Democratic Party towards Trump,” with the suggestion that secret services had previously been involved in attempts to assassinate Kennedy family members during the 1960s.
It is noted that the CIA director has previously referred to Donald Trump as “America’s traitor,” and that “the FBI hates Trump and for the past eight years has been trying to destroy him and his supporters.” It is also added that Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security in the U.S. government, has repeatedly rejected requests from Trump’s presidential campaign to increase security measures against potential incidents incited by “levels of hatred… generated by the Democratic Party and ‘press-titutes’ like CNN towards Trump.”
The fact remains that members of the U.S. Secret Service made certain security mistakes at the rally in Pennsylvania, which led to political pressure and the resignation of the organization’s director, Kimberly Cheatle. The Biden administration has ordered an independent investigation into these failures. On the other hand, preliminary FBI findings suggest that the assailant of Donald Trump acted alone, with motivations that are still not fully clear.
However, Paul Craig Roberts’ analysis contains highly speculative claims without presenting solid evidence, which rapidly spread in the “post-truth” era. The author is known for his controversial views, often unsupported by facts, against the current U.S. administration and its foreign policy, leading to his statements being frequently disseminated on domestic pro-Russian media portals.
Author: Igor Mirosavljević
