Posted on 08/27/2024 11:01:48 AM PDT by Red Badger
It’s been six weeks since the attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the American public’s questions about the nature of the attack and the security failings that led to Trump’s brush with death largely remain unanswered.
Jason Chaffetz, a Fox News contributor and former Utah congressman who once chaired the House Oversight Committee, joined “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the apparent security failures and ongoing investigations into what transpired in Butler on July 13.
“I thought the extraction was very slow. I thought it was fairly pathetic,” Chaffetz told The Daily Signal. “It’s been illuminated more now that even though he was the Republican nominee, even though he was the former president, he wasn’t getting the full protective detail that a sitting president would get. And I have a problem with that.”
Chaffetz thinks the failures are structural. Poor recruitment and training, as well as heavy workloads, create a perfect storm for the kinds of security lapses witnessed on July 13 in Butler, Chaffetz suggested. These problems have long plagued the Secret Service.
When Chaffetz chaired the House Oversight Committee, he conducted the largest investigation into the Secret Service’s operations in American history. The investigation resulted in a more than 400-page report, “United States Secret Service: An Agency in Crisis.”
The former Utah congressman remains “skeptical” that the current investigations in Congress will yield the policy changes necessary to improve the Secret Service without Congress using the power of the purse to “hold them accountable.”
Chaffetz is such a hero in his own mind. Wow, a 400 page report. I’m so oooooh impressed. /s
The one top down approach Obama loved. He started at the top and went very deep into various arms of the government as well as the military to eliminate “troublesome” employees and replace them with like-thinking liberals.
Their silence makes you more correct.
A 1ST Lady, desperate to remain so, believing Trump, trouncing hubby, destined to reclaim the WH, would bring end to American democracy, might, just might, encourage a friend in charge of SS to create a few cracks in security....and...
....added another last minute assignment that very day nearby, to which you could deploy your regular personnel , to give you a good case for plausible deniability.
Convince me otherwise.
Your govt. wouldn’t do this, you say ? Look around
And how long ago was this great report? And why all these years and nothing has been done to correct the problems.
Typical Government.
Too simplistic. Gives them a shadow of doubt.
I’m convinced they set it up. That is what was sloppy.
There were no failures except that of aim.
It was a set-up. Not even the government is this incompetent.
Intentional, not structural.
It was 10 Secret Service agents who were fired for bringing hookers back to their hotel.
Everything
Hillary has got to be behind it.
I think Kommie-law is behind it
Nope. Ocamms Razor indicates the FBI, SS coordinated with democrats Joe Biden and others to shoot Mr Trump.
What Is Secret Service Hiding About Trump Assassination Attempt?
Their COMPLICITY
What do I win?
That it is under political control of the Democrats and that it has thrown all sense of honesty, integrity and dedication to duty OUT OF THE WINDOW.
IMO, they worked with the FBI (who identified the malcontent assassin) and the CIA (who likely MKUltra’d him) to set up the stage for a completely successful assassination. Further, I believe they all are working in concert to cover it all up.
I trust the government about as much as I trust the Crack head loving under the local bridge.
Living
I just sat down and watched the yesterday’s hearing Erik Prince and Dan Bongino testifying.
Wow. All the crap that happened. You really can’t wrap your head around it.
They hired and trained Crooks? Dumshit didn’t realize he was to be immediately liquidated.
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