The tree was the least of their fai.ures. first and foremost was the failure to get pres Trump off the stage efore any firing took place, and second was the failure of the cop who was chased away by the perp pointing his gun at him.
The moment they saw the perp RANGE-FINDING the area, then climbing onto the roof (or vise-versa) they should have informed all the ss, who would have then surrounded pres Trump and moved him to safety-
That point can’t be stressed enough. There is no way pres Trump should have still been on that stage, unprotected! The ss were even behind him, sitting, while pres Trump was fully exposed to the building’s line of sight.
What happened was such a colossal failure that it stretches the imiganiation to that one must conclude that either the team was inept, or it was intentional.
The excuse that “the roof was slanted and” and that the director didn’t want her team on that roof is noses as the rooftop from which the ss snipers shot was sloped even more it looked like to me!
Supposedly the cops were to handle the rooftop for some unknown reason, so apparently it wasn’t too sloped for them to secure, but it was too sloped for highly trained ss snipers to deal with? Gimme a break!
It boils down to that.