There was a group chat for LEOs on the scene. From here
At 5:38 p.m., the photos were shared in a group chat, and another text went out among the officers, saying they should inform the Secret Service. “Kid learning around building we are in. AGR I believe it is. I did see him with a range finder looking towards stage. FYI. If you wanna notify SS snipers to look out. I lost sight of him.”
Hooray for stovepiped bureaucracies such that all the local cops knew and none of SS did.
I made a chunk of money 25 years ago with secure coordination software for just these kinds of ad hoc inter-agency hootenanies. Shame SS never bought a license.
The biggest question mark for me is: There were fucking cops in that building and they knew this kid was lurking around and they didn’t go out and check him out? Was the donut spread so large they couldn’t tear themselves away? Were these the least inquisitive cops on the planet?
Trump didn’t need to “blade” his ear. He didn’t need to fumble for a blood squib in his shoes. All he had to do was hide a blood squib under that ferret he calls “hair”, above and behind his ear, and it’d be basically invisible. He just swats at his ear when he hears the shot, popping the squib, and it sprays “blood”. Look at the spray pattern- it shoots forward, not back.