Posted on 07/30/2024 6:24:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber
After the evasive House testimony of now-former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and FBI Director Christopher Wray’s shortlived suggestion that Donald Trump may not have been hit by a bullet, one man alone may help allay Republican fears that the Biden administration will not conduct a forthright investigation into the attempted assassination of Trump last month: Joseph Cuffari.
The Trump-appointed inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security has already opened two investigations into the U.S. Secret Service, which is under the purview of the DHS, related to the agency’s handling of the July 13 shooting.
But some Republicans are concerned because, they say, Cuffari has been stonewalled by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on other internal examinations – including one that might have revealed Secret Service lapses that might have prevented the attempt on Trump’s life.
Specifically, congressional sources tell RCI that Cuffari’s report, “USSS Preparation for and Response to the Events of January 6, 2021,” has been on Mayorkas’ desk since at least April.
The report, according to Politico, will “cast light on a series of embarrassing security lapses for the agency.” And given some comparisons between Jan. 6 and July 13, the report might shed light on systemic issues that impacted both events.
For example, unanswered questions remain as to why the Secret Service allowed Trump to take the stage at The Ellipse outside the White House around noon on Jan. 6 amid reports of individuals with weapons in the vicinity – a question many Americans have about the July 13 assassination attempt. Law enforcement and spectators noted the presence of a suspicious individual, later identified as the gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, at least a half hour before Trump took the stage in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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Could it be that everything went according to plan except for the missed shot?
Probably.
Anyone know off the top of their head when and under which dumbass potus that happened?
I was previously under the impression it was always under the Executive. I'll have to look it up later.
That right there could be the core of the problem. What an utterly stupid move.
Does anyone really think the fox wants to get to the bottom of who raided the henhouse?
Don’t put your faith in a man. People can be threatened or bought. Nobody in government really wants to get to the bottom of what happened. They just wanted Trump gone. Now, they are going to have to hope for a ‘meteor’.
Yes.
(somebody forgot to teach Crooks about windage which, if the kid was truly smart, he'd have had an app for that on his phone. Otherwise, it's evidence - ahem - of his 'handler(s)' being bureaucratically trained, rather than by someone with military background).
A gay woman with a wife, -——favored by Jill, appointed by Biden——ousted SS director Cheatle
was actually hanging on to her perk-laden job even after the colossal failure of Trump getting shot.
That is, until she was caught on-air stupidly saying she couldnt endanger agents by putting them on a “sloped” roof.
But the pea-brained imbecile figured it was OK for Trump to be endangered.
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But some Republicans are concerned because, they say, Cuffari has been stonewalled by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on other internal examinations – including one that might have revealed Secret Service lapses that might have prevented the attempt on Trump’s life.
Specifically, congressional sources tell RCI that Cuffari’s report, “USSS Preparation for and Response to the Events of January 6, 2021,” has been on Mayorkas’ desk since at least April.
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mayorkas tops my list for a trip to gitmo
well actually in my top 10
Cheatle is GAY AND MARRIED HA TO A WOMAN?
Guy’s shot was pretty much perfect. Trump rotated his head to the right at exactly the correct moment to look at a teleprompter, and the round that a quarter of a second before would have blown out the left side of Trump’s head ended up taking off the top of his ear.
Crooks didn’t miss because he was a bad shot. He missed because of head movement at the moment of truth.
A headshot on a stationary target at 140+/- yards is not at all difficult. I’ve wrecked much smaller targets from several times that range and I have no military background.
Pardon: You are mistaken.
I’ve done the math: Accounting for windage on that day with weather conditions, DJT would be dead REGARDLESS the head movement.
Absent the head movement, it would have been bad; I agree. The head movement simply ensured a nearly clean miss.
But he missed because he didn’t account for wind (poor training; I’ve never used the words ‘bad shot’, though one detail hasn’t been released that I’ve seen: Lefty or righty, which may have played a role, too). Though zero hits with #2 & #3 definitely suggest ‘bad shot’...
Two things happened at the same time.
Security gap.
Shooter in that gap.
That’s coordination.
From Russia Collusion to assassination attempt; they all seem connected.
Yup.
Now if he’d used a 300 Win Mag or .308, history would certainly read differently, wind or not.
But he missed because he didn’t account for wind (poor training; I’ve never used the words ‘bad shot’, though one detail hasn’t been released that I’ve seen: Lefty or righty, which may have played a role, too). Though zero hits with #2 & #3 definitely suggest ‘bad shot’...
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The wind was, I would guess based on the flag, between 8-10 mph and at 90 degrees pushing the round away from Trump’s head. I don’t know what the windage correction of a light .223 round would be at approximately 140 yards, but the wind had to have been some sort of a factor, pushing the bullet(s) away from Trump’s head. It’s just another amazing circumstance working for Trump. I bet the dirtbag never factored in the wind.
It was always under Treasury until DHS was created under Bush then it was moved.
Under Treasury due to their original mission on counterfeiting.
They didn’t add protection until 1902 after McKinley was shot.
CNN just happened to be there when they never covered a rally before.
CNN photographer just happened to get an image capture of a bullet in motion from a perfect angle.
All coincidental? I believe CNN was 'notified' what was going to happen and they were invited to the assasination attempt.
I still believe that the local LEO that climbed up to the roof interrupted the plan. It flustered the shooter so that he missed by an inch. Head shots are a smaller target and require concentration and steadiness.
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