The Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump released a 53-page report of its investigation into what it describes as “stunning security failures” that led to the deadly July 13 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, that left Corey Comperatore dead and of three people injured, including Trump.

The report shows the Secret Service and local law enforcement were not communicating well and gave little thought to the neighboring property within view of the stage. The report also offers a detailed timeline of the shooter’s movements before he climbed onto an exterior air conditioner unit and hoisted himself onto the roof of the American Glass Research (AGR) building.

The task force is led by Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Penn., who serves the district that includes Butler. Preliminary findings are based on information from witnesses who testified at a task force hearing, a series of briefings from the Secret Service and FBI, and 23 voluntary, transcribed witness interviews of state and local law enforcement officials, plus thousands of pages of documents in response to requests to federal, state, and local agencies. Kelly also issued three subpoenas to obtain sensitive documents from local agencies in Pennsylvania.

The investigation found the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, spent about 20 minutes casing the Butler farm show complex grounds on July 7, about a week before the rally.

On the day of the rally, July 13, Crooks bought a ladder at Home Depot in Bethel Park around 9:30 a.m., then drove to Butler and stayed at the

As head of Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board (GAB), Kevin Kennedy helped lead one of the more sinister, secret investigations of the century. Kennedy and his corrupt “good government” agency worked alongside highly partisan Democrat prosecutors in Milwaukee and Dane counties to conduct a years-long probe via a star chamber against then-Republican Gov. Scott Walker and his conservative allies. Activated under Wisconsin’s old John Doe law, prosecutors and government agents spied on their victims, terrorized them with pre-dawn, armed raids, and threatened them with hefty fines and jail time if they dared to say anything publicly about the investigations — including defending themselves from false accusations from anonymous “sources” in the stories GAB-friendly corporate media outlets pumped out. 

So it’s interesting that the State Bar of Wisconsin would host a continuing legal education event for attorneys on election integrity, the constitution and the rule of law featuring Kennedy — a government bureaucrat lifer who twisted election integrity, trampled on the constitution and smashed the rule of law through his central role in Wisconsin’s unconstitutional John Doe investigation.  

“Having Kevin Kennedy teaching the rule of law to a law class is like having Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas teach a class on securing the southern border,” Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., told The Federalist in a phone interview. 

Tiffany was a state senator in 2015 when he introduced a bill that ultimately reformed Wisconsin’s John Doe law, checking the use of secret political investigations. 

Perhaps the State Bar session featuring

If Americans have questions and concerns about how our elections are administered and how ballots are tabulated, does that make them “election deniers,” conspiracy theorists, threats to democracy?

The Wall Street Journal seems to think so. In a long news report published over the weekend headlined, “‘It Feels Very Dystopian.’ Republican County Officials Brace for Election Deniers—Again,” the Journal repeatedly characterized those who think the 2020 election was stolen, rigged, or less-than-secure as “election deniers,” and stopped just short of calling them domestic terrorists. 

The piece is framed as a disturbing look at the growing threats facing local election officials from “election deniers” — an asinine epithet — as we approach November 5: “Four years of baseless allegations of election fraud have created an atmosphere of fear and intimidation among election officials from Atlanta to rural Washington state, transforming the way workers in many parts of the country are approaching the most fundamental of civic duties.”

Election officials, workers, and even volunteers have been forced to take extraordinary measures to protect themselves, we’re told. Active shooter drills, barricading exercises, trauma kits, bulletproof glass, and bulletproof vests have all become commonplace in election offices across the country. Scary stuff.

And it’s all Trump’s fault, apparently. After a series of legal challenges to the 2020 results  were dismissed, Trump “has continued to assert the election was rigged,” the article reads, eliding the important difference between stealing and rigging an election.

The former would mean falsely cast or illegally changed ballots, which is difficult to prove