Failed intelligence sparks outrage after Trump attack Changing role of US on world stage

The assassination attempt on US ex-president and clear favorite in the current presidential race, Donald Trump, will be the main topic in all world media for a long time.

Of course, very different versions will be put forward. For example, it will be questioned whether 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who shoot at a Trump rally, acted alone and of his own free will, rather than on anyone’s orders.

It is already quite obvious that the vaunted Secret Service and the FBI failed.

FBI officer Kevin Rojek has already stated that FBI has not received information about the preparation of an assassination attempt on US ex-President Donald Trump.

“We have not received any information about the threat,” he said.

What a ridiculous comment! An ironic question arises whether the FBI always waits for preliminary information about who, where and when will try to commit the next high-profile crime, or sometimes it relies on its own forces to prevent it.

By the way, Crooks fired from the roof of a manufacturing plant located 100 metres from the stage where Trump spoke.

This also testifies to the failure of the intelligence services. Checking the roofs and all nearby buildings before such an important event as the rally of the main favorite in the presidential race is their direct, primary responsibility.

Everyone remembers that Lee Harvey Oswald once fired fatal shots at US President John Kennedy from the window of a Texas school book depository.

The FBI stated that the consequences of the shooting at the rally could be even more serious. In other words, the FBI is already trying to present its failure as a feat.

The effectiveness of the work of special services, as is known, consists in stopping attempts at high-profile crimes. Moreover, the matter rests in an attempt on the life of a US presidential candidate.

Of course, rumors and then versions about the staging of an assassination attempt on Trump will arise.

There have always been conspiracy theorists everywhere, and freedom of speech makes it possible for conspiracy theorists to turn into “experts” from whom the journalists take comments and interviews.

This time, these conspiracy theorists may put forward the version that Thomas Matthew Crooks is blind. He did not inflict a single serious injury on Trump.

Of course, conspiracy theorists will say that this is beneficial only to Trump himself. It is clear that from now on his chances of winning the presidential race will sharply increase.

The fact is that the presidential elections in the US are once again accompanied by a gangster scenario.

Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, John Kennedy are the names of assassinated US presidents. Moreover, there were assassination attempts. For example, the assassination attempts on Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.

It’s too much for a state that is trying to impose its own rules of the game on everyone.

There were also various scandals. Let's remember the Watergate scandal, which ended with the resignation of US President Richard Nixon or the attempt to impeach Bill Clinton.

The reason was not only the US president’s sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky, but also his false denial of this fact, his deception of the Americans. All this happened in the recent history of the country, which is spreading its “traditions of democracy” around the world.

One of traditions is that ultimately the person for whom not the majority, but a minority of the country’s citizens voted, may be declared US president.

This happened in the 2009 presidential election, when half a million more Americans voted for Albert Gore, but George W. Bush became US president thanks to electoral votes. This is the US democracy, which it is trying to impose on many countries.

The current presidential elections in the US are ridiculous. The whole world has seen that US incumbent President Joe Biden is old and is confusing countries, as well as the names of the leaders of different countries.

However, he desperately refuses to withdraw from the presidential race, although almost the whole world is asking him to do so. Trump, who most likely will become the US president, was remembered for his lies in the last presidential election.

The Washington Post reported that Trump repeated false statements so often that it resembles a campaign based on disinformation.

The Washington Post Fact Checker database counted 29,508 false or misleading statements by Trump. This was four years ago. He has been found guilty of falsifying documents 34 times related to hush-money payments to an adult film star in 2016.

The presidents are assassinated in the US, assassination attempts are made on them, they lie to tens of millions of their fellow citizens, but this country still believes that it has the right to dictate its rules of the game to the world. In reality, everything was changed long ago.

The fact that the US has lost its status as a world hegemon is already a fait accompli. It is quite possible that the assassination attempt on Donald Trump was a “control shot” at the lost status of the US.

Akbar Hasanov