Posted on 09/17/2024 3:28:13 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Any time there’s an attempt on a presidential candidate — of which there has been an alarming increase in frequency in 2024 — pundits, law enforcement and everyday Americans will inevitably search for the “why” or “how.”
After Sunday’s alleged assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump at Trump International Golf Course near West Palm Beach, Florida, the answer to “how” may very well infuriate Americans, law enforcement and pundits alike.
According to an ominous report from the New York Post, alleged gunman Ryan Wesley Routh was able to get dangerously close to shooting Trump thanks to a glaring — and known — issue on that Trump International Golf Course.
To wit, on Sunday, Routh was ultimately stopped and apprehended after he lay in wait in shrubbery on the golf course.
Secret Service authorities reportedly saw Routh’s weapon and engaged, forcing the would-be assassin to flee.
Routh was eventually apprehended by local law enforcement and is currently facing charges of possessing a firearm despite a prior felony conviction and possession of a firearm with a removed serial number.
That is all concerning enough on its own.
But as the Post noted, Routh only got that close because of a security gap that the “Secret Service has known about for years.”
“News photographers — including those hired by The Post — have had no problem repeatedly securing spots around the perimeter of the course to snap pictures of Trump playing golf or driving around in a golf cart,” the Post reported. “They have even taken images — which require a clear line of sight to the 45th president — unnoticed through the bushes with telephoto lenses.
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I think that is the only rational conclusion. Trump needs to hire some really hard core ex SEALs as close personal protection and he should do it tomorrow. The SS is completely compromised.
Absolutely. Can’t believe he hasn’t already done so.
As Bongino has said, the Routh assassination attempt was not a ‘success’ from a SS service standpoint since the attacker got within the proscribed protective dome that surrounds Trump. Bongino says the Routh arrest is not time for a victory lap by the SS. A successful job from a SS standpoint is to prevent would be attackers from entering the protective dome, which again, Bongino says the outer band is a thousand yards, 360 degrees around, and above, and below the protectee. In Butler and West Palm the SS failed, and nothing but Divine Intervention saved the day. That golf course fenced area on the fifth and sixth green was notorious for being used to spy on players on the golf course, yet for 12 hours it was left unchecked. Just like the roof at the Butler rally, the only conclusion to reach is that a conscious decision was made not to cover these obvious line of sight vantage points, which left them wide open to snipers.
He strikes me as an apple polisher of the highest order (polishing Mayorkas' apples that is).
JD Vance said that when Trump called him to tell him about the second attempt he asked the President if he was OK mentally and Trump said he was just pizzed because they didn’t let him finish his birdie putt. 😆
And...the snipers knew exactly where to go to exploit these LOS points.
That's some random good luck right there.
That’s some random good luck right there.
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Bongino agrees. He says there has to be at least one mole in the SS.
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