New details about the assassination attempt on President Trump are coming fast.
Earlier this morning former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino gave his opinion about the Secret Service almost unfathomable drop in security protocol that allowed a gunman with a rifle to climb atop a building a mere 130 yards away from President Trump. Having some very specific insight into protection detail protocol, Bongino gives a unique perspective on what might have gone wrong. {Direct Rumble Link}
Making matters worse, the FBI are in charge of the investigation. The FBI has suffered irreversible credibility collapse, and many believe there is no worse agency to investigate the events than a highly politicized and weaponized Federal Bureau of Investigation, with a long and non-debatable history of corruption.
Obviously, accepting the lack of public trust in both the FBI and Secret Service, there is mounting speculation as to whether the assassination effort was the result of a series of grossly incompetent mistakes, or was perhaps a willfully blind -and intentional- failure of security.
Adding fuel to the fire of intentional security failures, the AP is now reporting that a police officer saw the gunman before the shots were fired, and the police officer retreated allowing time for the shooter to fire 5 shots toward his target – wounding President Trump and two other attendees, killing another.
(VIA AP) – […] Not long before shots rang out, rallygoers noticed a man climbing to the roof of a nearby building and warned local police, according to two law enforcement officials.
One local police officer climbed to the roof and encountered Crooks, who pointed his rifle at the officer. The officer retreated down the ladder, and Crooks quickly took a shot toward Trump, and that’s when Secret Service snipers shot him, said the officials, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. (more)
It all boils down to just one simple fact. Snipers had the shooter in their sights for multiple minutes and LET HIM GET SHOTS OFF!! No. Freaking. Excuse!!!!!
I though I heard that the SS claims that it’s against procedure to neutralize before the shoots. Even if that where true, clearly they recognized a “potential” threat, and yet left the President out there like a sitting duck before they had investigated or neutralized the potential threat.
great post from Erik Prince via Daily Wire on what went wrong… https://www.dailywire.com/news/founder-of-the-private-military-company-blackwater-breaks-down-trump-assassination-attempt
The Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks did not act alone.
Thomas Matthew Crooks motive was assassination of Trump.
Exactly. How did the would be killer know where Trump would speak? What site would be suitable for a sniper? How did he know he could gain access to the roof and it would be unsecured? That there would be no aerial surveillance?
All of these details could only be determined by careful study and inside knowledge.
Exactly as Dan said, where was the technology that they have access to??? Where were the drones??? 🫤🫤🫤🫤🫤
if they put drones up, then there’s a possibility that bad actors put up drones too that can be used as weapons
then you need to be ready with a counter-drone strategy capable of identifying the hostile drones and blasting them out of the sky
with no drones, you have a “clear sky” situation that’s incontrovertible … no drones means no hostile threat
Every single person in the US Secret Service, starting with everyone present in Butler PA, everyone who they report to, and then again up a layer until the the line of reporting reaches the Head of USSS is FIRED.
if you missed Bongino’s pod cast this morning – on Rumble – go there now and listen to it! His show was on fire! He went over every security failure point as only a former experienced NYPD and USSS agent could.
We probably will never know, but is it absolutely certain there was only one shooter? Just reflecting back on Ole Grassy Knoll, might there have been another one waiting in the wing, so to speak?
I’ll give the Biden posse the same benefit of a doubt that the IRS gives me.
I have a final thought
Several folks have pointed to the untrustworthy aspect of PresTrump relying on a Secret Service of questionable commitment and capability (such as the ponytails and failure to secure/man that rooftop)
I’d suggest that PresTrump does not need to stand up his own army of security officers on the ground, but I wonder to what degree his trustworthy security team gets adequate briefing from Secret Service?
For example, ahead of this rally, did Secret Service give PresTrump’s team an explicitly detailed briefing reviewing aerial imagery and tick off the countermeasures they’d apply to various features on the ground?
What I’ve got in mind is: did PresTrump’s team get the opportunity to point a finger and ask
“What about this rooftop here? What’s your assessment and what have you got planned to eliminate the risk from this elevated vantage?”
What I’m saying is that PresTrump doesn’t need to stand up his own armed agents on the ground, but his team should be involved in a detailed pre-event security review with the Secret Service team.
If that rooftop had been identified as a threat and manned, mr. shooter would have had to find a different vantage and game plan, perhaps much less favorable
Gnomesayin’?