As a civilian, walking through what the NYPD is still treating as an active crime scene, what struck me most leaving my apartment for work was how much the entirety of the blast area is still almost entirely untouched. This makes perfect sense when you step back and think about it. NYPD, FBI et al are clearly doing a very meticulous investigation of the trajectory of the blast. The area is littered with numbered markers showing where certain objects fell. It’s simply striking to see in person.
There are numerous NYPD officers and FBI agents up and down the street. All residents of that block must receive a police escort to enter and leave the restricted area.
Worth noting these two messages this morning.
Clinton Message: Be vigilant, not afraid.
Trump Message: Be afraid, also give me credit.
I wanted to note an emerging part of the bombing story. The perpetrator (or perpetrators) seems to have made numerous mistakes that led both to the lack of effectiveness of the attack (measured in carnage) and to what appears to be his rapid apprehension. Here are a few details.
I suspect most New Yorkers look with some pride at how rapidly the NYPD working with the FBI, New Jersey police departments and other agencies, identified a prime suspect in the Chelsea bombing and took him into custody. But look at what Donald Trump said this morning on Fox and Friends. In the spirit of his constant claims that we’re ‘losing’ everywhere, that things will soon get much worse if we don’t make him President, he said this …
I think TPM Reader BG has this largely correct …
I appreciate your latest post about how many mistakes the alleged perpetrator made, and we are all extremely thankful that he was as bad at this as he was. But that’s not an accident.
If you’ve heard Donald Trump explain Obama and Clinton’s terrible decision to intervene in Libya and how he opposed it all along, watch this video. February 28th, 2011. After the jump …
ISIS is hoping for a Clinton presidency? Researchers who study jihadist forums and the ‘dark web’ say jihadis are actually giddy at the prospect of a Trump presidency.
In case you missed it on Friday, the second episode of my new podcast is out. This week I talk to Chris Hayes about the Democratic left, the future of the Democratic party, Trump and how he became Chris Hayes.
Words count. Listen to these words – trojan horse, cancer from within, secret constant plotting – and see if they don’t sound like speeches from the 1930s or dark words spoken before leaders do horrible things.
This is Trump from this morning on Fox and Friends.
“They’re here. And I’ve been saying. This is going to be like the Trojan horse. We’re letting tens of thousands of people flow into this country and they are bringing in, in many cases, this is cancer from within. This is something that’s going to be so tough and you know they stay together, so nobody really knows who it is, what’s happening. They are plotting. They keep plotting, and this has been going on for so long and everybody knows it and the good law enforcement, we have such great people. That’s the best thing we have going is that we have great law enforcement. They know about it.”