ALL media inserts their own hypothetical guesses.  The MSM states them as absolute facts and intends their word to be "The Real Narrative".

Watch as many different videos as you can, but do not swallow any one analysis wholesale.  Sift out the actual absolute facts and mix together information from other videos.  Everybody gets some things wrong and makes incorrect assumptions they pass onto the viewer, sometimes by mistake and other times by malice.  The MSM is the most guilty of presenting incorrect opinions as "Fact" (often intentionally).

We know a guy shot at Trump and that shooter was killed.  The rest are details that if you don't want to do your own critical thinking on sifting down to story from the actual given facts and adjust it with new information being released daily, don't bother until the story solidifies into 3 or 4 ideas of how things happened once most of the evidence is in.  

Try to work with primary sources (police officer statements/body cams, videos, crowd participant reports, maps, etc) instead of what is put out in news releases.  Leaks are often more important than other opinions and have a history of being factual to discredit a false narrative being built.  Ancillary data is important as well, such as the Blackrock link and other stuff but it isn't really information you must sift through yourself.  The internet sleuths are pretty good and will have a quite logical and easy to understand timeline of events laid out with who was involved in a few months.   Looking now at information is only important because that information is often deleted quickly, sometime from being inaccurate and other times from being too accurate.   We don't know which it is until more is released and it will be months before we have something that fits all the boxes to link the various stories into a factual timeline, instead of "right wing hate monster goes berserk with machine gun at Trump Rally" narrative.

IOW, if you want to know what is really going on, you need to put in the work and be able to think critically and work with multiple assumptions and hypothesis at the same time.  Eventually the ones that are impossible fall away and a better picture of what happened forms.   The more you do this, the easier it gets.    It's extremely difficult when all the information you can find is second or third hand from the start.   This is an event where we have dozens of primary sources (first hand accounts) and like anything, they don't all agree due to the situation and what they were focused on at any given moment.  We have lots of video and audio from different angles which also gives a really good idea of what happened when unaltered and correlated to others.

The why and how happened is the very difficult part to sift out yourself.     It's a good thing to start practicing the critical thinking skills and as this isn't the last major story for 2024 by a long shot.  We'll be drowning in misinformation and leaks nearer election time and after the election.  We'll also probably see major stories over the summer of violence/riots as seen in 2015/2016 to paint things as dire and to boost whoever the new candidates are opposing Trump.

Lastly, know your neighbors and be on friendly terms if not full agreement.  Volunteer at your local poll to be a poll watcher and/or security.  That's an area where thinking somebody else will do it bit everybody in the ass in 2020.   Don't let Idiocracy become more of a Documentary and use it as a warning instead.

The "not bullet" leaving a trail from bullet trace?   Not sure how it was captured, pure luck and high humidity is my only guess.  Line in sky 1/3 down in image at right edge of photo.

The IEDs were in the conversion van he drove to the event, he left his car at Home Depot or something.   I'm not sure how many times that story changed but there's a bike, a Hyundai Sonata, and a conversion van all reported to be his, along with a ladder (of indeterminate type), drone, laser rangefinder, and a $500 AR with crap sight (Holosun/Eotech/Eotech knockoff) details on sight unclear since it's blurred or cropped or pushed entirely out of frame in videos.  The rifle was never seen while he  walking around in the hours before, rifle potentially in backpack which he's seen with then without but no details on where he stashed it and if it actually contained the rifle, or if he pre-cached the rifle in an evergreen tree or was literally handed to him by unknown bad actor.

It's all so tedious.

Where did the backpack go, where was it found?   It wasn't on the roof.

Is this speculation or a bit of information leaked from local LEO?