Yesterday, Acting Director of the U.S. Secret Service, Ronald Rowe, briefed members of the House and Senate about the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump.
Following the briefing Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn), told reporters that lawmakers “will have a report very, very soon that I think will absolutely shock the American people about the lapses and lags in protection that was afforded that day and the breakdown in communication, failure and responsibility.” Apparently, the USSS is going to use the ‘mistakes were made‘ justification for the failures in protection. WATCH:
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(WASHINGTON DC) – Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe spoke with members of both the House and Senate in closed sessions Thursday to discuss the July 13 assassination attempt on former President Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Rowe briefed members in both chambers about the agency’s interim report examining the USSS’s security lapses that led to a gunman being able to scale a nearby building and open fire on Trump, just minutes into his rally.
Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., the lead Democrat on the Trump Assassination Task Force told Fox News Digital that the briefing with Rowe was a “very lengthy and very candid discussion.”
“They discussed the … failings that occurred that day and what’s been done to fix it, as well as some of the resourcing constraints the Secret Service has faced this election cycle,” Crow said of Rowe’s briefing with lawmakers. “He made an outline of their internal report and briefed us on their internal mission evaluation, which is now complete.”
Fox News was previously informed that the overall mission assurance probe conducted by the Secret Service is nearly complete and will soon be made public. (read more)

I’m in the middle of doing up a class on the gospel hidden in the Old Testament Cities of Refuge concept.
Back then, when there was a murder, it fell on blood relatives of the murder victim to carry out the capital punishment of the murderer, after a trial by the congregation, as led by elders.
Who murdered Tommy Crooks??
Joshua Chapter 20 for anyone curious about what Stu mentioned….
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Anyone with half a brain hearing this from DaNang Dick will immediately be suspicous.
Exactly.
LOL!
HAHA! Da Nang Dick!!! He carried his trusty ’03A3 Springfield, too!! HAHA!
Wasn’t he Agent Orange – along with his buddy Billy Ray Valentine?
One of my favorite comedies…link above.
Intentional lapses in protection. Better to take the hit for incompetence than to be charge with Treason for attempting to assassinate the former President.
The first three shots were the same trajectory. The others were a different trajectory. According the the sound recording and analysis, the first three shots were evenly space. Calm, cool, professional. Shot from inside a building, no echo. Like a professional would do it. Those were followed by several very quick shots, from a different gun. Too fast, undisciplined, sporadic. Then, the counter-sniper’s shot. Another different gun. The patsy is dead. Dead men don’t talk.
Election interference!
Agree totally. The USSS are in cover up mode. I wonder as more time passes, if there will be a surge in well researched books on the subject as there was in the aftermath of the JFK assassination.
Don’t fall into the not-very-legitimate “sound analysis” crap that’s out there from people hoping for internet viewer clicks. This was out in the open, overlapping echoes from many structures, microphones not stationary, etc.
There have been some very professional analysis we will find the truth very soon.
Blumenthal is a POS. So their story blew up in their faces and now they have to come up with another story, fire a few people, and act shocked. I really cannot abide the people in our government.
I pray Putin exercises extreme restraint during this time when the US Government is doing everything in their power to not only ignite WWIII, but CW2.
Spit.
🎯 🎯 🎯
Yep.
Right on, Ma’am!
I put the head of the snake on Biden/Harris. Orders were given, bullets went flying. God saved President Trump with a mere twist to his head. Far as I’m concerned congress is just covering their involvement by telling us to look in a different direction. We’ve seen too often people getting the blame only to be protected by our lawmakers. They fear not because they know retirement is just a vacation with pay.
Still trying to figure what the angle is from this stolen valor commie.
It’s not to benefit PDJT
They will blame Trump and say his campaign refused better security.
Da Nang Dick got a little nervous what with all the “stolen valour” flying around.
My wife asked me…
After the last shot was fired and President Trump was down on the ground a dozen SWAT Officers in full combat gear ran out from behind the stage with rifles at the ready…like they were back there waiting for the attack on President Trump!
She is right. It looks like they were staged there deliberately waiting for the assassination and then run out … too late to save President Trump. What other reason would they be in a completely useless place to begin with?
There are a few pictures of one of those guys pointing his rifle at Trump. Right as they were loading him into the vehicle, he started walking forward, raised his rifle aiming through the open door but then Trump was in the vehicle and he backed off.
Oh, my gosh….just how many assassins were there????!!?
Who knows?
Sorry I didn’t see your comment.
I am still stuck on the Secret Squirrels that moved out of the way before shots fired.
Didn’t a couple of spectators make room as well?
Add in the dude Crossing himself behind the President and the highly suspect chick in the hat and glasses recording with her phone completely unmoved by the chaos as she sat in the line of fire.
One of them pointed his rifle at Trump while he sat in the beast. You could see the shot was called off then he lowered his rifle.
I noticed that too..then one announced “shooter is dead..or down” something like that.
Makes me think of the famous video of the secret service agent throwing up his hands in disbelief when he was called off from the side of JFK’S limo on 11/22/1963. They stood down that day as well.
I don’t believe in coincidences!
Yes, so many similarities – almost as if they had pulled this off before ……
The question is why did Sen. Richard Blumenthal come out with this comment now? Is this a damage limitation move or an attempt to cover up something?
“An attempt to cover up something ” 🤔 Humm, looks like a ‘Chinese fire drill’…
They want the “appearance” of bipartisan legitimacy.
That’s what I’m getting. Why else use a Democrat when there are plenty of Republican Anger Mgrs around.
Li, I think they are concerned that suspicion by even the Libtards is gaining steam. Putting out one of the Left’s “leaders” as a spokesperson gives their lies more legitimacy to this crowd. They don’t know all the info we have known since Day One, as they are just growing up from the hoax “Trump staged this to boost his poll numbers.” Keep in mind smarmy FBLie Director Chris Wray started this ruse during his Congressional testimony when he stated the FBLie wasn’t sure if Trump was hit by a bullet.
Likely both.
Rowe was a big-wig in the protective division of the USSS.
If things were bad, why didn’t he fix them while in that position?
For the same reason that Kamaltoe hasn’t done a thing in 4 years.
He is a total tool.
Having studied the Government Party for most of my 54 orbits around the sun – I was watching the evening news and discussing it with my parents before I turned 10 – this is the kind of statement the Government Party issues when the facts of the situation are far, far, worse than whatever “shocked, astonished, and appalled” means.
We will get a couple of new nuggets of previously unreleased information to make it look like they’re being transparent. The core narrative that this was a lone wolf mystery assassin who “somehow” managed to exploit security lapses by USSS and DHS will be maintained at all costs. That is their new and improved “magic bullet” theory.
Because they know what comes next if that narrative falls apart. All of those bureaucrats and all of those elected officials risk having to spend the rest of their days wearing body armor. So they’ll try to build a firewall at “incompetent USSC” and hope the public buys it.
Murder cases are now below 50% in terms of being solved or “cleared”. Can you imagine what happens if a bunch of independent actors decides to just go out and start eliminating the competition? (on either side, mind you) Because if it enters the public consciousness that this hit on Trump was government-sanctioned, you’ll have two basic camps emerge:
I’ve long held the belief that we have been in a Civil War in this country since Obama was elected. But it’s not Blue vs. Red. It’s a Bureaucrat Civil War with the unelected bureaucracy at war with private citizens. Trayvon Martin, the Ferguson riots, were the initial skirmishes as the Bureaucracy geared up and helped the rioters. Of course we had Occupy Wall Street and BLM/Antifa which were also both protected by and enhanced with Federal government support. When Trump won, the Bureaucracy entered Hot War mode with various hoaxes and even a bioweapon attack disguised as a healthcare crisis. Any number of unelected officials flat out refused to carry out Trump’s executive orders and obviously multiple impeachment attempts.
It was always heading towards bullets.
They have to prevent the idea that this was a government-sanctioned hit from entering the public consciousness. At least (like JFK) drag it out for 60 years. To the extent people even care anymore, I would wager most people think the CIA or other cabal of government employees killed Kennedy and those people are probably right.
What’s the “magic bullet” this time? That not just one or two, but 15 or 20 security lapses “just happened to occur” in just the right sequence at just the right time and at the perfect sniper position to take a series of shots at the biggest enemy of the Bureaucracy in American History. They don’t need a bullet to stop in mid-air and change direction. They just needed a perfect line of sight, and nobody watching, at just the right time.
Mistakes were made? No. TOO MANY mistakes were made. That’s the magic bullet. And that’s why they sent Blumenthal out there and not a Republican.
I agree with your argument!!
Well said, especially agree with the biggest red flag, the Don’t Look Here Sign, being held by a Democrat.
The people with Means, Motive, and Opportunity are all crying “we were stupid” in unison.
Like the election fraud and J6, methinks the lady doth protest too much…
“We’ll have two camps emerge:
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I’m okay with both.
Perfectly stated hokkoda. Very thought provoking and imo accurate! Thank you!!
Great post!
I will quibble with you on one point.
There were no mistakes made.
President Trump turning his head FUBAR’d the operation.
From the perspective of the traitors there was one huge mistake made – they chose an incompetent assassin who was a terrible shot. Otherwise their evil plan came off flawlessly.
Had Crooks been even a marginally capable marksman Trump’s head turn would not have mattered, or even if it did a follow-up shot would have done the job before those chunky, untrained HSI agents got themselves up onto the stage. (Almost the entire detail were HSI agents whose only protectee training was a two-hour online video. There were only six or seven actual USSS on-site, and the Agent in Charge was a DEI hire promoted into her job by the woke-obsessed director despite failing a major ‘required’ exam.)
Trump was saved by his own actions guided by Divine Providence and aided by the coup plotters inability to recruit a good patsy. The traitors had to go with the patsy they had not the one they might have wanted.
They were HSI? Or maybe ICE/ERO or CBPO’s? The media gets all these agencies all mixed up.
I don’t think there were mistakes made. That’s my point. There were TOO MANY mistakes, which suggests deliberate intent.
The Russia hoax used the same strategy of claiming the FBI agents were the patsies, tricked, duped, by campaign trickery.
That wasn’t the case at all. The Russia hoax was a badly executed attempted coup d’etat led BY the FBI. It was only because Trump refused to resign, and the court cases dragged out, that eventually the hoax collapsed. But once it did?
“We were fooled!” “We were duped” – the FBI
“Mistakes were made”= accidently on purpose!
That pretty much sums it up bro.
Government-sanctioned hit was the first thing that crossed my mind. These people will stop at nothing to preserve their house of cards.
Nailed it Hok. You have produced many very insightful posts over the time I have been on the Treehouse. Ty.
When traitor Hillary called us “Deplorables” that was another hint about the long running war against us.
Now we are being called ‘despicable’. I am now an unredeemable despicable deplorable and proud of it.
Correct – every, single word.
The uniparty is saying that this will shock you. In uniparty speak, what they are saying is that they will take control of the USSS, give it powers and authority that it currently does not have and then turn it against us. In other words, turn it into another jack booted gestapo agency of the deep state with the mission of protecting the deep state by any means necessary.
I and many others may believe some group wanted to/ planned to assassinate President Trump.
However: Going by what Blumenthal says, I guess Harris must now answer for her administration’s failure to protect a former President. Biden and Harris are responsible. Could use that against Harris in the campaign
Sorry, they didn’t fail to protect him. They failed to kill him.
Yes, that is what WE believe 1stG.
My point was if you were to think like the democrats WANT to believe (incompetent etc.), it can be turned into an interpretation that a Harris admin is incompetent. Used for campaign purposes.
we( fbi) already (cia) know (dhs) what (deep state) happened
Someone needs to tell Dicky-boy that it’s not 1963 anymore!
NOT buying
MISTAKES
LACK of Money
LACK of Training
PERIOD –
IT WAS INTENTIONALLY –> ALLOWED
Not mistakes – there were deliberate omissions made by managers put into position despite demonstrated incompetence
Not lack of money – it was deliberate choice of who got priority and who did not
Not lack of training – it was intentional lowering of standards
All the money and training in the world won’t fix a problem the managers decide to allow to persist.
‘Join us! You’re invited to a casual TV watch party in DC at the home of ____________. Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres.
Ask Blumenthal and Jason Crow, under oath, where they were at the time of the rally in Butler. Guaranteed that some of these congresspersons were tipped off to watch. They may not have ‘known’ but they were encouraged to watch.
Where was Nancy Pelosi. Surely they would have let her in on the event.
I often wondered if ‘plausible deniability’ was just in the movies or really a thing. This situation reeks of it.
I can picture certain politicians getting glaring mad if made directly aware of facts. instead of an indirect easily misconstrued understanding, related to certain events.
Danang Dick “blows the whistle” on Secret Service lapses at Butler PA. He is Shocked, SHOCKED! to hear about the problems.
Da Nang Dick isn’t Claude Rains.
Is it the case that CNN presented a live feed at Butler, which is quite unusual for them?
Yup. Up until that day, CNN hadn’t covered a Trump rally live in a few years.
Oh right, mistakes were made. ha ha so we the public are given a name Crooks and a picture from some school yearbook and blackrock takes down a picture of that named and pictured “Crooks.” and the family home is said to be steralized and so on. videos are taken by people at the rally of something crawling on a certain roof. people at the rally are yelling “he has a gun.” funny thing, though, certain roof washed clean, autopsy somehow queered. was there even a body on certain roof?
all we know for sure is gunfire was heard, Trump was shot, that fireman was killed and two other guys shot. other than that, the whole thing is bogus probably even the “Crooks” saga.
My thought is there was a trained sniper not named crooks who missed Trump by several miracles. One miracle the head turn. another miracle Trump was not killed when the SS left him wide open. Crooks is a red herring.
Matthew 10:36
I was shocked when individual were allowed to change voting standards due to the astonishing bioweapons attack on America. I was appalled when courts refused to hear evidence of election fraud and repeatedly told America that we had no standing, that there was no vital national interest in having a free and fair election. I was also shocked when the former president’s residence was raided by Garland’s shock troops hoping to confiscate evidence that the entire Russia hoax was put on by Clinton and her deep state lackeys.
Shocked, astonished and appalled have continued to stack up with outrageous court cases against our president and the viciousness and evilness of the installed junta that openly acts against the citizens and has done everything to weaken and divide our country.
I’m appalled that Bribem, who is clearly compromised with blackmail material by a Ukrainian actor who works for gangsters will go free with his ill-gotten gains despite treasonous acts against our country. The most astonishing thing is that the military and financial titans appear to be in cahoots with these Ukrainian gangsters. I’m thinking the world will be shocked, astonished and appalled if these crooks start WWIII.
After all other methods of “getting Trump” had failed, the deep state pleads incompetence for having failed to assassinate the only man who can lead this country back from the abyss.
Therefore Mr. Blumenthal, your pathetic report will shock me not.
Is there some button I have not yet found which will permit me to give this comment 1,000 likes?
Me too
Divine intervention may be our only hope at this point. Come, Lord Jesus. Pray for us, Blessed Mother.
Well shucks… the “mistakes” trope has worked for the fblie for many decades.
Why would SS look for another root cause when that one’s been effective?
“Mistakes were made” is more deflection from the real questions: who trained Crooks? Who else was involved? Who ordered the hit? Was Trump hit to prevent him disclosing JFK info, and was this just the latest installment of the ongoing JFK cover up? One trailhead: follow the white van that contained the explosives.
Mark Green (R-Tenn) is the Chairman of the “powerful” Homeland Security Committee –
Has that committee really gotten to the root and background of the attempted assassination of President Trump that happened on July 13, 2024?
I ask this because I wonder if he is badly compromised due to his extramarital activities – his wife put out a group text message today which went to members of Congress, where she mentioned an employee of Axios as a woman with whom her husband has been involved and that he is divorcing his wife to pursue that relationship – he is 59 and the woman is 32, so she is 27 years younger –
according to the “New York Post” the publisher Axios sent Mrs. Green a “cease and desist” request because her comments were so hurtful for the other woman?!? Listen, as NeNe Leakes of “Atlanta Housewives” so famously said, “don’t open your legs to married man” . . .
so, if indeed the “other woman” is an employee of Axios who conducted herself spotlessly, professionally and properly, is not a homewrecker, then why does she need the legal counsel and head honchos at Axios to scold Mrs. Green for her text message? Couldn’t she file a lawsuit against Mrs. Green?
Could Mrs. Green counter-sue for divorce and name the person as a co-respondent or is that not done anymore?
At some point, if Chairman Mark Green is divorced from his long-time spouse to therefore be free to marry the young lady, surely we will know whoever it actually is and will be seen on his arm at the various events around town.
From the article in the “New York Post” today, September 13, 2024 (two months to the day after the assassination attempt):
Rep. Mark Green’s wife accuses him of affair (nypost.com)
The response from Axios to Mrs. Greeen:
“Your message has not only caused this reporter considerable emotional distress, it has harmed her professional reputation,” Axios content counsel Brian Westley wrote to Camie Green.
“We therefore insist that you immediately set the record straight by sending a short follow-up text to the group that states: ‘I made a mistake when I wrote that Mark had an affair with a woman working at Axios. That is not true, and I apologize for the distress and harm I have caused to anyone my message might have impacted.’”
In a statement, Mark Green, 59, confirmed: “This is a difficult time for my family and me, and we are currently going through divorce proceedings. As this is a deeply private matter, I ask for privacy. I will continue to serve this district with all I’ve got, as I have the last five and a half years.”
Chairman Mark Green looks to me like he has had hangover on top of hangover, severely so . . . but that is just my own impression.
So, what does this have to do with the thread at hand, about the investigation into the assassination attempt on President Trump?
The Secret Service falls under Homeland Security and so it seems to me we should have been hearing of a vigorous investigation conducted by Mark Green – have we?
Just like with Covid. Mistakes were made. It’s all the same op. Carried out by the same evil forces.
Prepare to be “Shocked, Astonished and Appalled.”
Sir we are already shocked, astonished and appalled by nearly everything the U.S. government does these days.
But thanks for the advise.
“Congressional hearings re where truth goes to die.”
– Aviator Maximo
>> …and be buried
I’m shocked and appalled that this stolen valor awhipe continues to be relelected to office time after time.
Are they going to admit they kind of wanted Trump to be ‘gone’?
Am I the only one wondering why DT doesn’t have his own security detail that supplements the SS, and would have seen this coming from a month and mile away?
Please tell me he isn’t still trusting the Uniparty to always tell the truth and do him a solid every time, like in his first term?
What’s it going to take?
I think private security lacks critical law enforcement authority and immunity.
Critical law enforcement authority and immunity does not help you if you are dead. Trump surely is not that dumb but what else can we think?
The fact that this is coming from Sen. Blumenthal makes me wonder who is it that is about to be thrown under the bus.
Loling @ Mistakes were Made.
Thats what you say when your mail order is screwed up
People did not do their job.
They should be fired and some put in jail for same.
And a man was killed.
Instead, leadership is encouraging retirement for the Mistakes were Made guys, to avoid congressional of supposed investigative efforts, aka De Lay There
One thing about these Commie liberals is their determination to keep on digging the hole no matter how deep it is.
Long after they’re identified as blatant liars & murderers, they just keep digging.
Perhaps it’s true that if you dig deep enough you come out in China.
That would be great – then we’d be rid of them.
Here’s the story (and we all know it): Mistakes were made. The shooter missed!
He didn’t miss.
Da Nang Dick, acting all bipartisan and sheet.
A Uniparty obfuscation production.
Subliminal conditioning to vilify D.J.T., and the populist movement over the last decade is the driving factor for the assassination attempt. People in the think tank’s, the I.C., the hill, and, the corporate media are well aware, and culpable for the animus they were promoting and why. This was a calculated strategy of that you can be sure.
The real question in my mind is how to deal with these people in a consequential manner that is commensurate to the severity of the criminality they’ve engaged in.
Of course we are going to see Democrats join with the Republicans against the fourth branch of government. They are as sick and tired of that bunch using blackmail to get funding and just about anything else they want. Each and every Congressman has something no doubt that they would just as soon the public was not aware of. Blumenthal would probably love to see that bunch brought down a notch or two.
To DaNang Dick…and all the rest of the swamp
Said with all the sarcasm I can muster up, along with the rolleye smiley dude:
” Can’t you feel the UNITY ?? “
They will blame Trump and say his campaign refused better security.
This is all smoke and mirrors.
The Butler County District Attorney should have already convened a grand jury to fully investigate the crimes that occurred in his county. He should be issuing subpoenas to dozens of people and taking testimony under oath.
Anything less than this is a perversion of justice for the victims and for our country.
Let’s keep it real, this was all intentional and now the narrative is going to be gross negligence, dereliction of duty blah blah blah. More people will be “fired” (no choice and part of the clean up).
Let the coverup continue.
The SS MO has always been to keep the assassin alive to find out exactly who paid for the bullet (Hinkley). Except in this instance and JFKs assassination they murdered the patsy.
Mistakes only happen in one direction. Like deleted text messages.
This is nice
several high-level Secret Service officials who have either direct or indirect connections to the Butler, Pennsylvania security situation are retiring. While the employees are eligible for retirement, they’ve been encouraged by senior leadership to do so more quickly to avoid lengthy congressional interviews and investigations.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT :
WARNING!
REPULSIVE Lizard Man has been shown to induce gag reflex…..and in some cases, involuntary projectile vomiting in viewers….Watch at your own risk…have bucket and towels nearby.
In my mind they destroyed the evidence that allegedly showed Crooks to be the shooter.
If this went to court one could get a Spolation jury instruction directing that the jury may infer that the destroyed evidence would have been against the USSS/Govt/ DOJ.
Simply put, they destroyed the evidence therefore it goes against them. They did it.
As a CT resident I am shocked and astonished that Dick is shocked
and astonished…No no one who doesn;t have TDS will be
shocked by what ever is put out there.. No one..
Interesting timing of “The USSS screwed up” but now we’re going to have them be in charge of the Jan 5, 2025 certification of electors for the election. Curious cat wonders why now…?
I sure hope President Trump is surrounded by the best, most trustworthy protection ever. Doubt I’d ever trust SS. I pray everyday for President Trump. He’s the strongest man in the world!
That’s deflection. It’s their intel’s planned fallback position, to cauterize the gapping wound of the entire Federal law enforcement and intel operations. Accept the “incompetence” argument, fire the designated fall guys, everybody’s satisfied and the book can be closed.
Just like the bi-partisan JFK investigation.
Like some HAMAS lady in Congress once said about 9/11, “some people did something”, and this Congressional deflection effort is intended to the conceal who those people where, before and during the Trump assassination attempt. These are the same people, GOP&Dem, who libeled patriotic citizens by calling Jan 6, 2021 an “insurrection”, thus aiding the partisan left’s DOJ persecution of these citizens.
Well said.
It’s the suspect being interrogated who confesses to the lesser crime hoping to build credibility when they deny bigger and more severe allegations. “Yes, okay, I stole the bike… no, I didn’t set the house on fire.”
2–TWO–Democrats rush to microphones to announce “… the lapses and lags in protection … that day and the breakdown in communication …” will shock the American people. To the contrary, many–perhaps most–American people have KNOWN for months many key details about the assassination attempt.
We want to know who drew the local snipers away from their posts in Building 2 so they could not see the assassin climbing onto plus scampering across the AGR roof and then setting up for the kill. Had the local snipers seen the assassin, they could have stopped him before he fired a shot. Also, why could local LEOs & the USSS NOT communicate directly with each other? Communication is key to coordination / teamwork.