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It’s time to talk about the Secret Service problem we saw yesterday *UPDATED*
American Thinker ^ | 14 Jul, 2024 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 07/14/2024 9:08:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Preliminarily, let me say what I wrote yesterday: Trump’s near miss seems to have an element of Divine Providence to it, reminiscent of how George Washington invariably emerged from the heat of battle unscathed. Just sayin’. Now, to the topic at hand, which is the Secret Service’s performance before, during, and after the assassination attempt. It wasn’t good.

Ironically, just yesterday, I finished reading Lee Child’s Without Fail, which was published in 2008. In it, Jack Reacher works with the female head of the Vice President’s Secret Service detail to help foil an assassination attempt. Unlike most Reacher novels, this one had no fistfights. Instead, it focuses tightly on what the Secret Service does to protect politicians.

I don’t know what kind of research Child did, but the point he makes repeatedly—and it’s an obvious and intuitive one—is that the Secret Service must control the high ground. Every rooftop or high floor within range of a politician is a potential platform for an assassin.

In Butler, Pennsylvania, however, not only did the Secret Service seemingly make no effort to control a rooftop within relatively easy shooting distance of a former president and current presidential candidate, but Secret Service agents also seemed disinterested in repeated warnings that a man with a gun had crawled on top of a building that gave him a clear shot at President Trump. This video shows the first eyewitness we heard from, but reports are that several other people saw the same thing and had the same response from Trump’s security detail—that is, no response:

X - BREAKING: Eyewitness tells BBC that he informed police, Secret Service about a suspicious man on a roof with a rifle.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: assassination; bbc; elections; pa; rally; trump; witness
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear; Lazmataz

Double dittoes.


41 posted on 07/14/2024 9:37:30 AM PDT by The Westerner (Independent for Trump: 2016, 2020, 2024)
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To: mware

Exactly. I believe that is the only reason the interview has been seen.


42 posted on 07/14/2024 9:41:15 AM PDT by JayGalt (DEI = Didn’t Earn It)
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To: MtnClimber

Well, maybe......

It really is pretty self-evident.


43 posted on 07/14/2024 9:41:17 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Alberta's Child

Why do you say they are “theories?”


44 posted on 07/14/2024 9:41:20 AM PDT by madison10
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To: Ann Archy

I noticed that right off with the chubby one and her gun.


45 posted on 07/14/2024 9:42:43 AM PDT by Not A Snowbird (I do not recognize Biden’s authority. (@FeistyFed on TS) 🐝.)
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To: metmom
It really is pretty self-evident.

I know metmom.

46 posted on 07/14/2024 9:45:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: brownsfan

*WE* did not elect them.

Foreign invaders did.

Or dem cheating.


47 posted on 07/14/2024 9:47:06 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: MtnClimber

...supposed to happen? You mean why were all three Secret Service Snipers (two prone and one with a tripod I think) all sighted in on the shooter’s rooftop? And with high-powered scopes to match their high-powered rifles, they missed seeing a lone man, ON A WHITE ROOFTOP carrying an AR15 only 140 yards away? A man they deftly shot in the head seconds later? And if they DID see him, why did they wait to shoot until AFTER the shooter had taken at least 3 shots? I only have questions ...


48 posted on 07/14/2024 9:47:26 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (Accepting a false premise initiates conversational defeat.)
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To: MtnClimber

It is almost like it was supposed to happen.
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Yeah, almost.


49 posted on 07/14/2024 9:47:50 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Biden left our troops to die in Afghanistan and our military equipment to our enemy. Never forget.)
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To: crosdaddy

oops, sorry.


50 posted on 07/14/2024 9:49:06 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: MtnClimber

The failures of the s.s. were so basic, that they defy explanations


51 posted on 07/14/2024 9:49:26 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: MtnClimber

Late to the party? This was a SS led assassination attempt. Typically ALL rooftops are secured.


52 posted on 07/14/2024 9:49:37 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: MtnClimber

If the snipers on the roof behind Trump had the shooter in their sights but were ordered not to shoot, whoever they got the order from needs to be tried for attempted murder.


53 posted on 07/14/2024 9:51:24 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: MtnClimber

It makes no sense. That building was the only elevated position in the immediate vicinity and was only 130 yards yards away. For any who has ever practiced shooting that’s almost point blank with a rifle. I could make that shot 10 out of 10 times with no optics and I’m just an experienced hunter. There should have been a SS sniper on the roof and guards at all 4 corners of the building. These guys take months of training on how to secure an outdoor perimeter. I find it VERY hard to attribute this to incompetence.


54 posted on 07/14/2024 9:52:04 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: joe fonebone

Agree I find it difficult to attribute this to incompetence.


55 posted on 07/14/2024 9:52:57 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: reasonisfaith

3/4 of the idiots in my town wont even know anything about this until Wed, Thursday next week.


56 posted on 07/14/2024 9:53:15 AM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: inchworm
Not most. ALL.
57 posted on 07/14/2024 9:54:08 AM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: MtnClimber

I can’t confirm that this is true.

This is supposedly from the Secret Service or Police sniper who took out the shooter. If true.......WOW!

https://x.com/realDavidBauer/status/1812480675842347255?ref_url=


58 posted on 07/14/2024 9:56:13 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: brownsfan

The public will remain stupid and distracted.
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Those common characteristics of today’s “public” have been primary goals of America’s enemies, foreign and domestic, for decades.


59 posted on 07/14/2024 9:56:35 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Biden left our troops to die in Afghanistan and our military equipment to our enemy. Never forget.)
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To: blueunicorn6

What will it take to open American’s eyes to the fact that the Democrat party is an organized crime syndicate?
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A nuclear holocaust, but of course then it will be TOO LATE!


60 posted on 07/14/2024 10:00:07 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Biden left our troops to die in Afghanistan and our military equipment to our enemy. Never forget.)
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