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The truth has a way of getting out, all on it’s own. That’s exactly what happened with help from one local but impassioned journalist. Beaver County, Pennsylvania, is a quiet community just northwest of Pittsburgh. John Paul Vranesevich serves as “owner and only full-time reporter” for a local newspaper called the Beaver Countian. Over the years, he’s made friends with every local official, law enforcement officer and fireman for miles around. Those connections paid off in a huge way, after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, on July 13. Suddenly, his phone started ringing off the hook with tips. Things law enforcement “wanted the journalist to know.” That led to him publishing details which the network media outlets would have preferred to keep quiet.
Exclusive scoop of truth
This reporter didn’t have to go out and dig up the truth. It came flooding in to him all on it’s own. On Saturday, July 13, John Paul Vranesevich was “reporting on a candlelight vigil for a slain transgender teen in Mercer County.” Suddenly, “his phone started pinging with text messages.”
His well cultivated contacts were giving him a heads up that “a lone gunman on a roof had just fired toward Donald Trump at a rally in nearby Butler County.”
Along with the rapidly spreading details that Trump had been injured but was alive and that a local resident was dead, there were “serious concerns about security surrounding the event.”
John Paul Vranesevich, the owner and only full-time reporter at the Beaver Countian of western Pennsylvania, broke major scoops about the Trump rally shooting. https://t.co/R5uGbPQvsu
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 20, 2024
Some of the reporter’s law enforcement contacts didn’t think the press would cover some of the most important facts. Since they knew Vranesevich well, from “a dozen years covering this corner of western Pennsylvania,” they wanted him to know the truth.
“I was literally in the corner, going back and forth with my sources, who were giving me the play-by-play,” Vranesevich explains. He soon caught on that the truth wasn’t being reported on the network news.
Law enforcement on the ground were “sharing details with him that had not yet been reported by national media.” The networks knew those things, too. They just weren’t mentioning them.
Write it up, fast
As soon as he realized that he was sitting on information that hadn’t been printed yet, if he moved fast, it would be “exclusive.” That’s exactly what he did. He told all his contacts that he’d get back to them soon and silenced his phone.
He kept covering the vigil but was writing his exclusive scoop of the truth. He was first out the door with it and by Monday afternoon, he knew that his reporting had been ahead of everyone else’s by a light year.
CNN and the other major outlets didn’t dare to tell the truth that “local officers had actually been stationed inside the building the shooter climbed to fire his shots.” MSNBC and FOX weren’t reporting that “another officer had alerted a command center about the suspicious man before he even climbed the roof.”
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— Ken Kearns (@k2kearns) July 16, 2024
Those are important details and they’ve enraged the general public. It looks like the Secret Service intentionally allowed Thomas Matthew Crooks to attempt the murder of Donald Trump.
Soon, the Washington Post confirmed that the local reporter was telling the truth. “All news is local,” Vranesevich observes. “Everything that happens that the national [media] cares about is happening in some community, somewhere.” He is extremely grateful to those who filled him in on all the important news. His loyalty to them over the years paid off in spades.
His contacts reached out “to share some of the details of what happened that day with him because they were concerned that the national narrative unfolding about the shooting was inaccurate or incomplete — that it would leave the public to believe that local law enforcement had failed to do their jobs and put the president at risk.” Instead, it was a total failure on the part of the Secret Service.
