Posted on 07/14/2024 8:22:52 AM PDT by marshmallow
The US Secret Service has come under intense scrutiny for failing to prevent the attempted killing of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania.
Former President and Republican frontrunner Donald Trump was injured at a Pennsylvania rally on July 13. The suspected gunman has been identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old Bethel Park resident.
"I don’t believe that he [Crooks] was a professional sniper, because for a professional sniper, 100 or 110 meters [the distance from the roof where the shot was taken to Trump] is not a [large] distance," Sergei Goncharov, president of the Association of Veterans of the Alpha Anti-Terror Unit and member of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) advisory council, told Sputnik.
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People Responsible for Trump's Safety Dropped the Ball
It appears that the people responsible for Trump’s safety dropped the ball, Alexey Filatov, retired lieutenant colonel of the Russian Federal Security Service and veteran counterterrorism specialist, told Sputnik, explaining that the former president's security was provided by three groups: his bodyguards, local police and the Secret Service.
According to the expert, it seems that there was no proper communication between the groups, Filatov pointed out, adding that law enforcement and security personnel for some reason also failed to secure all nearby rooftops in the vicinity.
"It would be safe to say that the security performed extremely poorly," the counterterrorism specialist said. "You could say that this terrorist act or, shall we say, assassination attempt, was successful. Donald Trump’s life was saved by a miracle rather than by his security."
He also expressed skepticism over the idea of some sort of conspiracy behind the Secret Service's lapses, explaining that even elite US security agencies are staffed with "ordinary people":
"There are some rather primitive people at certain positions there, who could have been.......
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It was a high school photo from two years ago.
I think this goes way beyond the SS failing. Unless you mean failing to get him killed.
These security flaws were so basic that they required combined acts of extreme negligence by multiple supervisors and team leaders.
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You are thinking about the ‘old’ Secret Service, before DEI became their prime directive, before the agency was run by a gay, DEI-loving woman.
The Secret is that the Secret Service is the Deep State and the Deep State planned this. They tried to kill President Trump - the Secret Service “shooters” had only one job which was to shoot and kill anyone with a gun that was trying to kill their protectee. They did NOT fail by accident or stupidity. To the contrary the shooters were part of the plot and their job was to kill the shooter after his mission whether it was successful or not. It failed and they killed him- end of questions. Now arrest the two Secret Service shooters for NON FEASENCE which is undeniable - that will give us a way to hold them and detain them without saying we think they are guilty of a much greater crime.
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