Mar 09 2025 28 mins 1
ASBL 15. Who Really Shot Trump? And, The Problems We’re Trying To Solve
With Lloyd Chapman and Bruce de Torres
On Vimeo, Rumble, and the usual audio platforms.
We discuss:
The July 2024 Trump assassination attempt. Nothing about it makes sense. The shooter was seen by a number of people for about an hour before President Trump took the stage, and security and/or police were alerted to his presence before Trump started speaking, and yet nothing was done to stop him.
The accused assassin’s rifle didn’t have a scope. It had a red-dot site, or “quick acquisition” site, appropriate for short-range work, like clearing buildings, not for distance shooting which typically needs a scope, yet his shots were in a tight pattern, something like a three-foot diameter. Was there another shooter behind him farther away?
Why hasn’t Trump mentioned it? Does he know who arranged it and he’s afraid to pursue the perpetrators? Where are the primetime reports on what is known? Did they come and go quickly? It’s like the shooting never happened.
Also discussed: the government’s high-tech, AI censorship of free speech on social media, particularly how Lloyd is being censored on X.com.
The bill Lloyd helped write that was sponsored by Rep. Hank Johnson in 2009, which went nowhere: It should have been a no-brainer. The Fairness and Transparency in Contracting Act. Don’t give small business contracts to Fortune 500 firms. Its main goals were, according to perplexity.ai:
“…to improve fairness, transparency, and accessibility in federal contracting for small businesses. Key provisions included:
“Restricting Small Business Classification: The act prohibited publicly traded and foreign-owned companies (or their subsidiaries) from being classified as U.S. small businesses for government contracting purposes. This aimed to ensure that only genuinely small businesses benefited from small business set-aside contracts.
“Increased Transparency: It required timely reporting of small business contract holders, including listing them under their parent companies' names to prevent large firms from hiding behind smaller subsidiaries.
“Maximizing Small Business Opportunities: The act aligned with broader policies to ensure a "fair proportion" of federal contract dollars went to small businesses, established government-wide goals for such contracts, and tasked the Small Business Administration (SBA) with restructuring procurements to enhance small business participation.
“These measures sought to curb abuses in the system, promote competition, and create more opportunities for legitimate small businesses in federal contracting.”
What is the basic problem?
Federal law says that 23% of all federal contracts should go to small businesses. 98% of all businesses have less than one hundred employees. (That should be the largest size standard used.) And it’s been reported for more than 20 years that billions in federal contracts every month are intentionally diverted to Fortune 500 firms and their subsidiaries, and to other known-to-be large firms.
Learn more at ASBL.com, The American Small Business League.
The American Small Business League is the strongest voice in America protecting the federal programs that assist the nation’s 34.7 million small businesses. Winning over 100 Freedom of Information legal battles has exposed rampant fraud in federal small business programs. In the national media and in federal courts, the ASBL has had a larger presence than all other organizations that claim to represent the interest of small businesses combined.
