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Walls close in on Alec Baldwin as his gun lie falls apart
August 15, 2022
Alec Baldwin has always insisted, despite all evidence to the contrary, that he didnât pull that trigger.
The FBI now says that he did. That finding, released over the weekend, comes just after the Santa Fe Sheriffâs Office announced theyâre only waiting on Baldwinâs phone records before sending their investigative file to the DAâs office.
Are the walls closing in yet, Alec?
This FBI report is reason to cheer. Not since OJ Simpson have we seen someone so guilty act so aggrieved, entitled, put-upon and victimized, as if this whole tragedy has affected no one more than Baldwin himself â not Halyna Hutchinsâs husband, not her little boy, so traumatized after her death he couldnât speak for days, but Alec freaking Baldwin.
Think thatâs overstatement? Let me count the ways: Gallivanting through the Hamptons and Vermont, just days after the shooting, Baldwin shopping at Ralph Lauren and preening before the paps â you know, the ones he otherwise hates and physically attacks â so they could get the perfect shot of Baldwin, inside a gleaming restaurant, holding his head in his hands. The bizarre roadside presser with his fake Spanish wife, the Rachel Dolezal of the Hamptons, in which he claimed the âRustâ set was run by âa very, very well-oiled crewâ who just had the bad luck to suffer this âone in a trillionâ tragedy.
The barrage of social media posts in the days after, Hilaria and Alec gloating over their family â that is, when Hilaria wasnât getting in on the victim act herself, writing that âparenting through this has been an intense experience, to say the least.â
Know what else will be an intense experience? Criminal charges, jail time, and the loss of all his money in civil litigation. (On Monday, the New Mexico medical investigator ruled the shooting an accident; the district attorney has yet to decide whether or not to file charges.)
Did I mention that the Baldwins thought there was no better time to buy a sprawling, historic Vermont farmhouse for $1.75 million?
Thatâs how delusional these two are. How surely they believe Alec to be above the law or any consequence.
As two firearms experts in on-set safety told me last year: Guns donât shoot themselves. Alec Baldwin, for all his crocodile tears and caterwauling, pulled that trigger and killed Halyna Hutchins.
âIâm not aware of any gun firing itself,â veteran Hollywood firearms expert Steve Wolf told me last December, after Alecâs poor-me softball sit-down with ABCâs George Stephanopolous â his good pal from the Hamptons social scene, not that either disclosed that little conflict of interest.
âThe trigger still must have been pressed,â Wolf said. âItâs really important to discredit anyone who claims that guns fire themselves. If this becomes an acceptable defense, there goes any accountability when it comes to shooting people. We canât have this kind of âguns shoot themselvesâ thing. They donât.â
Former FBI agent turned Hollywood firearms consultant Bobby Chacon told me the same thing.
âThe bullet striking and killing that woman came out of the barrel of the gun pointed directly at her,â Chacon said. âBullets donât curve. He isnât in âThe Matrix.â The trigger would still have to be pulled.â
Alec, to Stephanopolous: âI would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them. Never.â Also, he was brazen enough to say he felt no guilt.
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