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The Dark Truth About The Trump Assassination Attempt - Tim Kennedy

An emergency episode in the wake of this past weekend. No ads, no edits — just a raw, unfiltered conversation with Special Forces Sniper and Green Beret Tim Kennedy. - 00:00 How Has America Come to This? 06:12 Explaining the Different Security Roles 13:26 Step-by-Step Rundown of the Shooting 20:29 What Was the Counter-Sniper Thinking? 27:22 How Many Shots Were Fired? 34:14 Who Were the People Shielding Trump? 39:54 Criticisms of the Security & DEI 48:27 Trump's Fighting Spirit 59:24 What Happens Going Forward? - Get access to every episode 10 hours before YouTube by subscribing for free on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn or Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic here - https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

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Jul 15, 20241h 3mWatch on YouTube ↗

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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT

Tim Kennedy Exposes Systemic Security Failures Behind Trump Assassination Attempt

  1. Tim Kennedy, a former Green Beret and presidential security professional, dissects the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, arguing it stems from years of organizational decay rather than a one‑day failure.
  2. He frames the incident through Occam’s and Hanlon’s razors, suggesting a mix of incompetence and potential malice if leadership knowingly fielded dangerously underqualified teams.
  3. Kennedy details multiple breakdowns: inadequate site surveys, misused or hesitant counter‑snipers, chaotic close‑protection response, and politicized leadership and DEI‑driven hiring that, in his view, prioritized identity over capability.
  4. He concludes that Trump survived largely by luck, warns that nothing meaningful will change before the election, and urges Trump to bring in elite private security while voters reassess how they view both Trump and U.S. security institutions.

IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING

5 ideas

The failure was systemic, not just a bad day on the ground.

Kennedy insists you must look back several years at leadership appointments, hiring pipelines, training standards, and policy changes across DHS and Secret Service to understand how such an obvious threat position was left exploitable.

An obvious, low‑difficulty threat position was known and not neutralized.

The shooter used a fixed ladder to access a roof 150–151 yards from the podium—well within standard small‑arms range and clearly visible—yet crowd warnings went unacted upon for minutes and no preemptive control of that position occurred.

Counter‑sniper teams appeared hesitant, under‑experienced, and poorly conditioned for real gunfire.

Kennedy describes their body language—coming off glass, flinching at shots, delayed engagement—as indicative of shooters who likely lacked combat experience and confidence in using their delegated authority to engage a suspected threat early.

Close protection around Trump failed core fundamentals of their job.

He argues that once a round struck Trump, the detail had already failed, and then compounded it with chaotic exfiltration, agents unable to move a very large principal efficiently, poor firearm handling, and some agents visibly using Trump as cover rather than shielding him.

Kennedy blames DEI‑driven and lowered standards hiring for degraded capability.

He differentiates between competent women he’s worked with and what he calls a policy problem: selection standards (fitness, speed, load‑bearing) scaled down by gender and diversity targets prioritized over raw competence, which he sees as lethal in high‑risk roles.

WORDS WORTH SAVING

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The only reason that that man is not dead is because his head, at the very last second, changed a few degrees and a bullet went past his ear instead of hitting his temple.

Tim Kennedy

If they are knowingly aware about how dangerously inept they are, we then move into the malice category. Then we move into the complicit category.

Tim Kennedy

A nine‑year‑old can make that shot. Every single Texas kid that’s hunted out of a blind can make that 150‑yard shot.

Tim Kennedy

Their job is to be bullet magnets. Their job is to absorb any threat… literally becoming a human shield around the principal. They failed.

Tim Kennedy

There is no more costly signal than after you’ve just been shot, how you respond after that… it’s very difficult to deny that that guy is built different.

Chris Williamson

Systemic failures in Secret Service, DHS, and broader security apparatusTechnical breakdown of the shooter’s position, shot difficulty, and counter‑sniper responseIncident command, communications, and inter‑agency coordination problems on the dayPerformance and selection of Trump’s close protection detail (principal security detail)Impact of DEI policies and lowered physical/skills standards in security rolesMedia narratives, missing evidence, and potential politicization of the investigationPublic perception shift around Trump’s character and the political implications

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