The Government Has Failed America Since the Trump Shooting

The New York Times ^ | July 23, 2024, 3:12 p.m. ET | Gerald Posner and Mark S. Zaid

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Those of us who have studied modern assassinations, including those of President John F. Kennedy and the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., hoped the government had learned a lesson from its dismal public responses.

The government’s repeated failure to address what it knew quickly fed suspicions that the silence itself was evidence of a conspiracy. The federal government sealed files for decades and refused to disclose information — often to protect the reputation of agencies and their officials — which only added fuel to conspiracy theories.

In the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, we are seeing that happen again.

Until this week there had not been a single news conference by the Secret Service or the Department of Homeland Security, no release of files that might show the preparations for securing vulnerable locations from which an assassin might strike, not even a formal news release from the officials facing criticism for unmistakable miscues caught on video by those at the rally.

Neither the public nor Congress learned much more when Kimberly Cheatle, the director of the Secret Service at the time of the shooting, appeared before a congressional committee on Monday. Ms. Cheatle acknowledged that the shooting at the Trump rally ranked as the agency’s “most significant operational failure” in decades. But there was outrage from both Democrats and Republicans at her repeated refusal to answer specific questions about the security failures that contributed to it.

[sasquatch]

Good one!

[Sequoyah101]

The government has failed america since about 1950.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Imagine believing the government is trying to serve “America?”

[Liz]

JUST IN-—The heads of the Secret Service (now resigned), the FBI, and Dept of Homeland Security have reportedly declined to testify at the second Congressional hearing into Trump’s attempted assassination.

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S/S Director Cheatle’s resignation should not deter us from determining the true significance
of the stunning S/S payroll numbers coming out of the Trump shooting debacle.

<><>Cheatle employed 7100 Secret Service Special agents and 2800 Task Force Officers, plus Uniformed Division officers, Technical Law Enforcement officers, and administrative, professional, and technical personnel on the tax-paid govt payroll. Complete with perks, privileges, eternal healthcare, bonuses, and pensions.

<><>Mayorkas heads The Dept of Homeland Security which has more than 260,000 employees in jobs that range from aviation and border security to emergency response, from cybersecurity analyst to chemical facility inspector on the govt payroll as of Jun 11, 2024.

<><>Mayorkas’ Homeland Security Investigations division which apparently “lent” employees to Cheatle has over 9,800 Special Agents and tactical officers on the tax-paid govt payroll. Complete With tax-paid perks privileges healthcare bonuses and pensions.

<><>The Executive Office of the President employs
1800 tax-paid individuals, some 584 in the WH alone.

Yet, Biden, Mayorkas and Cheatle denied Trump’s request for increased security. The Biden regime sent $200,000,000,000 tax dollars to Ukraine to protect its people, but could not find the tax dollars to beef up security for a presidential candidate.

Call Congress to express your outrage.
Call (202) 224-3121
U.S. House switchboard operator.

Message: Payroll fraud is widespread and easy to pull off on the govt payroll.
There are several methodologies used, including
<><>submitting falsified time sheets,
<><>issuing unauthorized paychecks, healthcare, bonuses, benefits and overtime
<><>enrolling fictitious employees in pension plans.

The govt fraudster simply sets up fictitious employees and arranges for them to receive a salary,
benefits, overtime payments, bonuses and pensions, even though they do not perform any duties.

The fraudster then diverts the fraudulent payments into their bank account or that of an accomplice.

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Payroll fraud entails serious crimes.......falsifying govt documents, misappropriation of tax dollars, skimming, larceny, check tampering, check kiting, billing fraud, payroll fraud, reimbursement fraud, pension fraud, misuse of tax dollars, theft of tax dollars, ID fraud, Social Security swindles, IRS fraud.

[shanover]

Watching clips of that Cheatle was disgusting. She took the fall for the swamp.

[LegendHasIt]

"The Government Has Failed America Since the Trump Shooting."

One small correction: The Government Has Failed America Since the Trump Garfield Shooting.

[xoxox]

Since the Trump shooting? The government has failed America since, what, 1917 at least.

[clearcarbon]

"The Government Has Failed America Since the Trump Shooting"

Much of the obiden misadministration earlier failed America and the Secret Service is just one of the more recent examples. What parts still work correctly? USPS? Nope!

[HIDEK6]

It’s no wonder the government has failed. They’ve purged anyone who knows anything.

[Responsibility2nd]

Why are you beating up on this article? Just because it is from the Times doesn’t make this article false.

Find me one sentence in this excerpt that you disagree with.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I just put the disclaimer there because there are psychos here who go insane and attack you for posting things from NYT, LAT, WaPo, etc.

This way I head them off at the pass.

[metmom]

They failed us long before the Trump shooting.

[Responsibility2nd]

That makes sense. Too many FReepers can’t get past the headline or the excerpt before knee jerking to a conclusion.

And then those who see it’s a NYT article won’t even go that far.

[metmom]

The Swamp threw her under the bus, IMO.

IOW, I think she was ordered to take the fall. Or else.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The moderator just erased all the disclaimers in all the articles I published, so I guess I unkowingly violated a rule.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I know what our side is doing.

The only way to know what the other side is doing is read their stuff.

It’s important to know what your enemy is up to.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

You can remove a post, but we still KNOW this whole event was allowed to happen. That means Federal people are involved, need to be tried for treason all the way to whoever ordered them to do it. Treason!!!

[Saintgermain]

I am quite sure she will retire with a nice pension.

[hal ogen]

Anyone who has the misfortune to be in her neighborhood should complain this pathetic incompetent criminal wret.