Posted on 07/14/2024 4:00:05 AM PDT by george76
Radio host, conservative commentator, and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino condemned the lax tactics of Donald Trump's Secret Service security detail after an assassination attempt Saturday afternoon and the murder of a rally attendee. Bongino laid particular blame at the feet of United States Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle.
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I want to repeat, and can absolutely confirm, the USSS Director Kim Cheatle has repeatedly turned down requests for a larger security footprint around President Trump. Despite knowing the threat level is catastrophic. Resign tonight.
At the time Bongino made these allegations they had not been corroborated by anyone else, but Bongino is not known for talking out the side of his neck or making blanket accusations in order to incite his followers or garner clicks. Bongino used to be a secret service agent. So, if he alludes to an inside source supplying him with information, it is well worth paying attention to.
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Actively communicating with a number of former colleagues from the Secret Service about the assassination attempt. This is an obviously catastrophic failure and NO excuses should be made, or even attempted. The failures are profound and questions must be answered about ground surveillance, air surveillance, post-stander support, and counter-sniper advance work and response. We have ONE job, and we came within inches of a deadly failure today. An uneventful failure is NOT a success.
Not long after Bongino issued his posts, The Federalist co-founder Sean Davis corroborated. Davis' sources also stated that the requests from the Trump campaign to beef up his Secret Service detail had been rebuffed, more than once.
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A source familiar with Trump’s security detail tells @FDRLST that the former and future president’s detail has been asking for beefed up protection and resources for weeks, but has been rebuffed time and again by Biden’s DHS.
DHS, which oversees Secret Service protective detail “wasn’t responsive to those requests” for more resources, the source said.
Was Biden’s regime behind the attack, or did it deliberately do everything it could to allow it to happen?
Developing…
On a special edition of his podcast, Bongino blasted Cheatle for her political posturing and demanded that she resign immediately.
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"It is time right now for Kim Cheatle to get her head out of her ass and do the right thing. I could tell you stories for days about her putting politics ahead of presidential protection."
Just last Sunday Cheatle sat down with ABC News This Week with George Stephanopoulos and confidently claimed that there's "nothing specific and nothing credible," in terms of threats.
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Others are echoing Bongino's call for Cheatle to resign.
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Republican members of Congress have already been calling for independent investigations of the security failures leading to the assassination attempt, and the House Oversight Committee has invited Cheatle to testify on Monday, July 22.
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RFK Jr has been denied Secret Service protection. cadaver joe and his ilk are hell bent on eliminating his competition.
Cheatle’s got nothing to worry about. DEI hires are a protected species in this Regime.
was it a screw-up? They are trained much much better than what we saw yesterday. They are trained extensively on what to look for, what to secure, where to place sharp shooters to cover everything- there was no excuse for them not securing rooftops of all places, especially since there were so few rooftops there to cover!
The cops should have immediately alerted the ss that there was a man on the roof with a gun after the group of fellas told them- there should have been NO hesitation at all, and president Trump should have been surrounded by ss seconds after the ss got the alert while the ss figured out what was going on!
The fella that spoke to British media had it exactly right, there was no excuse for what happened. People in the crowd even saw the gunman and were pointing him out, trying to get ss attention. If they could see the gunman, then the ss which were elevated could see him better most likely.
Ha ha!
Holy cow- nice compilation of quotes by the scum on the left which possibly led to the attempt or at the very least incited the maggot to do what he did before being sent to hell.
CBS blaming Republicans for the rhetoric- your list plus many many ore examples prove that it is NOT conservatives calling for violence but the left. CBS are a bunch of lying maggots!
Secret service should clear all near by roof tops on their own.
Did nothing - even after being told - there is a guy with a long rifle on a roof near the President.
They killed JFK, his brother, and .. no consequences.
[Secret service should clear all near by roof tops on their own.]
That is correct. Secret Service snipers should have already neutralized the shooter ASAP.
scumbags
It was a real mess for sure, and I noted yesterday how thst short female should not have been there, and that all tall stocky male subjects shou.d have been there giving president Trump far more protection the that short female was doing!
There was one tall big ss who did cover most of president Trump as they walked hi. Back to the car, but there were nowhere near enough large men to protect Trump had there been another shooter in a different position. The failure to protect President Trump was a shameful stain on our nation. I do applauded them for covering him, risking their own lives, but as you said, it was a mess and looked very unprofessional, heck, it WAS unprifessional
They do not. It is 100% propaganda.
SS was standing down until the shooter could take his shots. This also happened in Afganistan when our marines where blown to pieces with the sniper not able to take the shot.
Bkmk
Biden didn’t even have the decency to call president Trump “president Trump” or even “former president Trump “- he called him just “Donald” in his remarks on the shooting
I was downstairs getting dressed when I heard someone make an exclamation in reaction to the word spreading - I texted a dozen people right off - only idiotic comment I got was from my B-I-L who is often terminally-stupid - I made a typo in my haste to alert as many friends as possible - what was important? The typo, of course. Because that’s how idiots think (no he wasn’t having fun, just being a jack...wagon.
Bongino makes a claim. The briefing lead last night claimed otherwise. It will be interesting to see what actual evidence of security team enhancement requests come to light. If the Trump campaign made the request then I’m sure that will be put out there.
I don’t listen to bongino much. I like that he is a Trump supporter and appreciate his background and his conservative position. But he’s a talk show host now, like hannity, like Carlson. And as such he promotes himself. I listened to part of his latest podcast from right after the shooting and like others, he is blaming the SS detail for failure given his proposed scenarios, none of which are actually what happened. So his premature speculation about guns getting inside the perimeter is just more noise in this case.
I do think the perimeter was not big enough. But whether or not that was influenced by lack of sufficient resources is TBD.
He shouldn’t have needed to request it.
It should be a given.
Someone wanted this to happen, which is, no doubt the reason they are denying SS protection to RFK Jr.
Very appropriate initials.
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