Joe Rogan says Donald Trump shooting ‘stinks to high heaven’

Joe Rogan has warned that the attempted assassination of Donald Trump ‘stinks to high heaven’ as he outlines a series of glaring security failures.

Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, fired eight shots at the ex-president on July 13, the first of which grazed his ear, as he spoke at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

He was shot dead almost immediately by a Secret Service sniper, but not before killing a Trump fan in the crowd and wounding others.

Rogan expressed his frustration over the unanswered questions in a September 18 podcast with author Matt Walsh.

“The whole thing sucks, it stinks to high heaven,” he said.

Some of the points they discussed were discussed a week later at a Trump Assassination Task Force hearing on September 26.

But investigators have yet to release many details about Crooks’ background and any indication of a motive for shooting Trump — in what narrowly avoided becoming one of the worst security disasters in U.S. history that left a visitor dead.

They’ve seized his electronic devices and picked apart his life to answer those questions, but haven’t yet revealed what they found.

“The whole thing is crazy, who is this kid, why did he do this?” Rogan asked.

‘Why did a twenty-year-old boy on the… [former] president? Why didn’t he have a telescope?’

Rogan then speculated about how good Crooks would be if Trump were killed in the attempt.

“Just think how perfect it would have been if you had a plan to kill someone when you got that lonely, crazy kid,” he said.

Investigators have yet to release many details about Thomas Matthew Crooks’ background and any indication of a motive for shooting Trump

“If he shot and hit Trump, if Trump didn’t turn his head at that crucial moment… and it’s a head shot, then Trump is dead and the world is in chaos and this kid is dead a second later.

“Then it’s like ‘this crazy kid is going to kill the president’ and that’s it, and then it’s okay, who’s going to run for office as a Republican now, the world is in chaos.

“It would have been the perfect plan if that kid had just pulled it off.”

There is no credible evidence to suggest that anyone prompted Crooks to shoot Trump, or that he was in any way assisted by a third party.

However, Trump claimed that Iran’s hardline regime very recently made “real and specific threats” to kill Trump.

“There have already been steps taken by Iran that have not worked, but they will try again,” he said in a statement.

The veracity of the claim that Iran planned to kill him, targeting other American political leaders and public figures, is an open question.

Joe Rogan expressed his frustration with the unanswered questions in a September 18 podcast

Rogan’s guest, right-wing author Matt Walsh, said it was a political mistake by the Trump campaign not to make the shooting the centerpiece of the Republican National Convention.

Rogan and Walsh also expressed surprise at how quickly Americans “moved on” with the assassination attempt, and how little impact it had on the election.

“The whole story is crazy and the fact that it disappeared is even more crazy,” Rogan said.

Walsh said it was a political mistake for the Trump campaign not to make it the centerpiece of the Republican National Convention.

Instead, it had no political impact, unlike Ronald Reagan who got a huge boost when a gunman shot him in 1981, and everyone moved on within weeks.

“It wouldn’t shock me because we would be so easily distracted if people really forgot about it two weeks later and didn’t care about it anymore.”

Commander Edward Lenz of the Butler County Emergency Services Unit, Patrolman Drew Blasko of the Butler Township Police Department, Lt. John Herold of the Pennsylvania State Police and Patrick Sullivan attend a House Task Force on the hearing into the attempted assassination of Donald Trump

Law enforcement witnesses, many of whom were present at the meeting during the shooting, detailed grisly aspects that unfolded during the messy day at the public hearing for the task force.

They include the exact moment gunman Crooks was taken out by a counter-sniper just seconds after shooting the former president.

The officials expressed remorse for the death and carnage that followed that day, and the shortcomings in preparation and communication with the Secret Service that preceded it.

Task force chairman Mike Kelly said the Secret Service’s miscommunication led to confusion and likened it to the agency playing a game of telephone during the crisis.