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There are still way too many unanswered questions about the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt against Trump. But now, more information is coming out about a second would-be assassin. This time, it was a Pakistani man who was arrested after allegedly plotting with Iran. But FBI whistleblower and former agent Steve Friend tells Glenn Beck that everything about this story – and the Pennsylvania attempt – points to FBI grooming. Is the FBI influencing potential assassins just to arrest them and ask Congress for more money? Steve Friend also weighs in on the story of Secret Service agents who broke into a salon during a Kamala Harris event.
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My Opinion:
I agree with Steve Friend’s assessment in this interview: “a Pakistani man who was arrested after allegedly plotting with Iran” to assassinate Trump on 7. 12.24, just one day prior to Butler Farm Show Shooting, and while trying to board the plane to leave the country, looks like the classic FBI setup and one of their happily and crudely manufactured plots.
What is interesting and more important here is that this case, with its very clear anti-Iranian sentiment, points to the Israeli involvement. Was this “lead” initially manufactured by some of their intelligence services, state or “private”, and was it fed to the FBI for “further processing”, possibly with the help of their, Israeli agents, embedded with the FBI?
The goal would be to highlight the dangers coming from Iran to Trump’s personal safety, and to protect the Netanyahu’s political investment, and the Russian Mob’s financial investment in Trump.
Was TM Crooks involvement also a setup, influenced (on line?), manufactured, and processed by the same people who set up the Pakistani man; namely by the Israelis?
Was this done in cooperation with the Russians?
These issues have to be further investigated. But the very notion that the FBI can played with and manipulated in this fashion, is troubling, of course. However, it very well might be the truth.
The FBI should disclose their relationship with TM Crooks, if it was any, in all the details, truthfully. It might hold the key to this investigation.
Michael Novakhov | 8.19.24
a very brave man and a good friend of
the program Steve friend is joining us
he is uh from the center of renewing
America fellow uh he’s a fellow at the
sorry at the center for renewing America
uh he’s also the FBI whistleblower uh
that objected to being you know put on
to duty to investigate grandmothers as
as domestic terrorist he blew the
whistle and uh the rest of it is history
welcome to the program Steve how are you
I’m doing well gr thanks for having me
on today you bet so you were with uh the
FBI um and I know it’s not the same but
I think you probably could comment on
this I’m not hearing anything satisfying
coming from the FBI or the Secret
Service on the assassination attempt
there’s three things assassination
attempt of Donald Trump uh the guy that
they they just leted in they knew he was
was on the terror list and they just let
him in anyway who was coordinating an
assassination on Donald Trump and then
the third comes out of Massachusetts
this weekend where Camala Harris was on
stage someplace at an event and the
Secret Service and local police needed a
bathroom so they covered up somebody’s
private security on their business and
then picked the lock went in used their
bathrooms occupied the space for hours
and then closed back to the shop didn’t
lock it back up but closed it the lady
came on Monday and she’s like what the
here uh that’s against the law isn’t
it oh absolutely it is and I think if
you or I were to engage in any sort of
activity that there would be criminal
charges against us at the very least for
some sort of trespass but I think what
these three elements that you’re talking
about expose more than anything else is
what I’d like to dub the myth of
competence that we all sort of have in
our federal law enforcement agencies
because in pop culture TVs and movies
shows that you consume uh the the uh the
characters in those shows and movies
they’re they’re really sophisticated and
and really great at their job and
they’re hunting down the criminals and
they’re chasing them down the back
alleys and slapping the handcuffs on and
then they just fade to black but in
reality uh these agencies have now
devolved into essentially DMVs with guns
and badges and that’s why it comes to
the the Trump assassination attempt you
know there’s all these theories that are
out there um and you know you can Count
Me sort of in the in the clan of people
that believe that incompetence was
heavily involved in it and I think that
there’s one sort of presupposition that
has gone into that that so many people
have their questions about and
rightfully so but we are presupposing
that the Secret Service is always great
at its job and these failur I think
they’re terrible are explained I and yes
I I think that these failures are
happening at every single event and it’s
just because of the providential nature
of our as a country and then also
because of the myth of confidence that
nobody’s really tried and tested them
which is why going forward I think
there’s probably a heightened risk to
Donald Trump for any of these any of his
events that he’s going to hold um but to
Pivot to the the second issue with the
the FBI and uh investigating this uh
this assassination attempt I think one
of the most disturbing elements and it
hasn’t been picked up on was when the
deputy director of the FBI Paula bate uh
said that they were going to investigate
it as domestic terrorism and that to me
is uh to the lay person seems reasonable
you don’t want to have blinders on but
being a subject matter expert here the
FBI is now going to slap a classified
label on this investigation and they’re
not going to be able to be transparent
because you don’t have a need to know
you don’t have a security I’m sorry I’m
sorry Congressman can’t comment on an
ongoing investigation so that’s that’s
tremendously disturbing and then the
last thing that I I definitely want to
get to is this Pakistani National now
this is what I like to call the Playbook
that the FBI has been running the last
two and a half decades particularly
since 911 where essentially what they do
to justify their existence as a
bureaucracy as a self- looking ice cream
cone they will identify a vulnerable
person an emotionally disturbed maybe
someone with radical intentions but not
capable of carrying forward an actual
attack without the involvement of the
FBI they’ll identify them use
confidential human sources use
Undercovers and then groom them for as
long as it takes to engage or at least
agree to engage in an activity that can
be labeled as terrorism and then they
will arrest them and the added wrinkle
here was that they imported this
Pakistani through the Border they
sponsored him arriving arriving the FBI
Dallas office actually was the S on him
arriving and it wasn’t just to slap the
cuffs on him they followed him and
orchestrated this plot that could never
have happened without the involvement of
the government for three months and then
justify their existence with this big
dismantlement stat which is also tied to
their quotas this is just the the FBI
version of Fast and Furious but except
with the exception of you being guns
with the ATF we are now running
terrorists so that we can justify our
agency so he was supposed to leave right
after he had set something up before the
assassination um so did they because I
don’t even know if I’ve read the what
they had busted other than him did they
up the plot is completely absurd Glenn
I’ve read through the affidavit this is
an individual who was essentially
Indigent didn’t have the finances and
we’re led to believe from the FBI that
he arrived here uh and then just
happened the first person that he had
conversation with was an informant for
the government about soliciting Hit Men
to carry forward not not only
assassinations but he wanted uh dozens
of people to have protests that were
going to be cover while they did
reconnaissance he wanted to get people
that were going to steal documents and
thumb drives from government figures and
all for the low low price of $5,000
which he didn’t actually have and he was
doing things like uh asking the the
informant to put his phone in a drawer
while they had conversations I mean
that’s not a phiraday bag it’s not
really operational security these
illusions of grandeur that he had to me
indicate that he was a prime person that
the FBI likes to target the people who
are vulnerable and and enough for
nothing you know let’s just say he’s a
you know he’s a bad guy um what’s to say
that they don’t import him here and he
just says you know this plot that I have
doesn’t sound like it’s going to be
achievable I’ll just grab a butcher
knife and stab the next Infidel that I
see and then the FBI should be on the
hook for that so this is them believing
in their own competence that certainly
nothing bad will happen while we have
them on the hook for three months and
they’ve been lucky we’ve been lucky that
nothing worse has happened but I think
the bottom line is that the FBI is
inventing these cases so that they can
go to Congress and say look how all the
good work we have done here why don’t
you give us enhanced funding why don’t
you give us enhanced tools think of all
the good work we could do like Lindsey
Graham wants to do now and that is
giving the FBI backdoor access to
encrypted Communications uh because that
way the FBI can circumvent the Fourth
Amendment oh my gosh Lindy Graham lindsy
Graham Lindy gr um so so let me see if I
have this right was this uh guy that
they picked up uh or you know um finally
arrested and told us all about it was
this just a distraction from the
assassination I think the timetable
works out to be that he was arrested on
July 12th the assassination temp
happened on the 13th which to me
uh the messaging that we got about this
Iranian threat because the FBI was
really super concerned about someone who
they groomed to uh engage in a terrorism
which never was going to happen and
really didn’t have their eye on the ball
and then you we can get into the
speculation about a character like
Crooks who not for nothing kind of
strikes me as sitting squarely within
the profile of someone who would be
recruited and targeted for grooming to
engage in something that he was not
predisposed to do and then maybe did the
thing that I just talked about but
instead of grabbing the butcher knife
and stabbing an Infidel grabbed his
dad’s AR and said I’m going to take a
should uh pay for for this I saw that
the I think it was the fire chief of uh
Butler County just resigned over this
because of staging and everything else I
I don’t I could be wrong I don’t think
it’s the local law enforcement’s place I
mean you know when the Secret Service
come in they usually usually just come
in and just say here’s what you’re doing
and you do that and don’t ask any
questions um uh you know who whose fault
really was this who should pay for this
there’s going to be a lot of
accountability hot potato as it comes to
this assassination attempt because you
could see Kimberly Cheeto get up there
and say the buck stopped with me but you
know it was really local law
enforcement’s job and and just having
been at both levels you could easily see
that roof being something where the
locals said hey that should be covered
and the Secret Service said okay we
cover and then it didn’t get covered and
then they’re just looking back and forth
at each other saying hey that’s your job
no that’s your job and then meanwhile it
doesn’t get covered at all but I think
ultimately because the Secret Service is
supposed to be the chief agency there
who’s calling the shots it needs to be
them who falls on this and there needs
to be an independent investigation
because I don’t trust the FBI and it’s
not just a personal animous the FBI has
a track record for investigating
assassination attempts like the 2017
Congressional baseball shooting where
the shooter was a Bernie Sanders repor
showed up at the ball field and asked
where the Republicans were and then
proceeded to shoot Steve’s delease and
the FBI said that’s not an assassination
attempt that’s suicide by cop so there
needs to be an independent investigation
may be funded here could be used in the
Congressional uh leverage here for the
for the upcoming budget uh it could also
be a request from the Pennsylvania State
Police because I know there’s a federal
Nexus here but it was in their backyard
and I don’t see any reason why they
couldn’t conduct a thorough
investigation I would trust them far
more than the FB which is going to say
this was domestic terrorism perhaps or
perhaps we already had a domestic
terrorism case open on Crooks either way
we can’t talk about sources and methods
this is an ongoing investigation maybe
we’ll give you something here uh a
decade when nobody is really paying
attention so um one one last thought the
woman in Massachusetts that had her
business just taken over um without her
permission without her even being there
or knowing it uh they covered the camera
they broke in picked the lock and and
went in and spent hours in there just
because I guess they could um she’s not
pressing charges uh she says you know
I’m really angry I feel violated but I
you know I don’t you know they have a
job to do no if people don’t stand up I
think that’s a violation of the F the
third amendment I mean that never gets
any attention I think that’s the
violation of the third amendment but
it’s certainly breaking and entering
and if people don’t push back and say no
I’m sorry if that were anyone else you’d
be in jail today so I I’m sorry I might
like you guys I understand your
situation but you cannot do that because
stop this is the natural Downstream
consequences of what we experienced in
2020 when we were said you had to stay
home and stay safe and shut down your
non-essential business that you use to
feed your family and pay your mortgage
and this is the chilling effect that it
has and I share your sentiment about the
third amendment it would be interesting
to see an energenic attorney take that
up but the government does not respect
your civil liberties does not respect
the Bill of Rights and this is just
another example of the fact that they
are willing to impede on those just for
their own convenience I mean how hard is
bathroom Steve thank you so much thanks
for everything you do stay safe Steve
friend uh former uh and current
whistleblower uh on the FBI