Ken Silva, Author of ‘The Trump Assassination Plots’ and Editor of Headline USA

Spectator has interviewed Ken Silva, who has written a book about the assassination attempts on Trump.

Americans are sceptical. When they hear that fifteen seconds passed from the moment Thomas Matthew Crooks fired the first shot until the Secret Service snipers responded, they know all they need to know. Matthew Crooks had been walking around on the grass with a rangefinder in full view. The seconds when people become aware of him on the roof and try to alert the Secret Service say everything. People understood what was about to happen.

Yet they did not react.

It was a police officer who first fired at Crooks, after five seconds. He had climbed up onto the roof, but when Crooks saw him he pointed his rifle at the police officer, who withdrew.

He is called Tyler Collins and is the hero of the story.

Crooks managed to fire eight shots before the Secret Service took him out after 15 seconds. That is an eternity.

These circumstances in sum tell us that the assassination attempt was not a coincidence.

There are several circumstances that have not been exhaustively explained: The FBI said they had uncovered an Iranian plot against Trump. An Iranian agent attempted to recruit people to shoot Trump. The individual left the USA the day before Butler.

Another strange circumstance is the agent from the ATF – Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives – who was present in uniform entirely on his own. No one had asked him to be there.

After the head of the Secret Service resigned following the revelation of scandalous conditions surrounding the security – the revelations have dried up.

The media stopped writing about Butler after just one week. There was some attention around Butler because Trump appeared at the Republican convention with a bandage two days later – 15 July. Already then liberal media began to question whether he had been wounded.

FBI Director Christopher Wray would later say in a congressional hearing that it might not have been a shot, but shrapnel. He knew he was lying. If anyone knew, it was Wray. He said it to sow doubt about what people had seen with their own eyes and to provoke.

Two months later Ryan Routh attempted to kill Trump at a golf course in Florida. Here too there were strange circumstances: Trump only decided at 2 p.m. to go to the golf course. Routh must have known this. He was ready and waiting.

Routh had close contact with circles in Ukraine.

The two assassination attempts have something in common: We have not seen any thorough investigation into who they were. On the contrary, the FBI cleared the scene of all traces and Crooks was cremated after ten days.

Everyone in Washington understands what this means: The FBI is erasing all traces.