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Secret Service Director Gives Bizarre Reason Why An Agent Wasn't On The Roof Where Gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks Opened Fire On Trump As She Rejects Calls To Resign
DAILY MAIL ^ | 07/16/24 | Geoff Earl

Posted on 07/16/2024 8:04:02 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Embattled Secret Service head Kimberly Cheatle has revealed the fateful reason why her agency failed to position an agent on top of the building that a gunman used to carry out an assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

Cheatle, who is already facing calls to resign over what some lawmakers are calling a massive security failure, said Secret Service officials planning security for Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania considered the warehouse about 150 yards away from where Trump spoke to be a risky position for stationing an agent.

'That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there's a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn't want to put somebody up on a sloped roof,' she told ABC News in an interview Tuesday.

'And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside.'

What transpired instead was a security nightmare: Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to scale the building and secure his own position, while law enforcement struggled to locate him even amid pressing warnings from members of the Trump crowd. But there wasn't sufficient time to act on the tips, she explalined.

'The shooter was actually identified as a potential person of suspicion,' Cheatle said. 'Unfortunately, with the rapid succession of how things unfolded, by the time that individual was eventually located, they were on the rooftop and were able to fire off at the former president.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: cheatle; director; excuses; j13; kimberlycheatle; kimcheatle; noslope; outsidetheperimeter; roof; secretservice; slanted; slopedroof; thomasmatthewcrooks
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Her other snipers were also on a sloped roof.

What is she talking about?

1 posted on 07/16/2024 8:04:02 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Explanation doesn’t hold water!


2 posted on 07/16/2024 8:05:44 AM PDT by fremont_steve
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To: Enlightened1

She is a DEI hire

D-umb
E-gotistical
I-diot

Or a normal Democrat


3 posted on 07/16/2024 8:06:12 AM PDT by Fai Mao ( The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
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To: Enlightened1

How many ways can we be told this was a False Flag, without actually telling us it was a False Flag?


4 posted on 07/16/2024 8:06:19 AM PDT by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: Enlightened1

She was ordered to deploy in such a fashion.


5 posted on 07/16/2024 8:06:39 AM PDT by donozark (Presbyterians wear elbow patches and drive on recapped tires.)
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Her other snipers were also on a sloped roof. What is she talking about?

She didn't expect Trump would survive. They didn't have the contingency lies ready.

6 posted on 07/16/2024 8:06:42 AM PDT by FatherofFive (we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor)
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To: Enlightened1

Then put an agent on the water tower! Are we to accept this stupid answer?


7 posted on 07/16/2024 8:06:47 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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[’That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point.’]

Yeah, we noticed how the assassin just slid off like an omelette out of a non-stick frying pan.

You’ll have to craft better lies than that one.

How about ‘Global Warming’ or something??


8 posted on 07/16/2024 8:06:56 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Enlightened1

No problem for the assassin kid.


9 posted on 07/16/2024 8:07:45 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Enlightened1

Damned slopes.


10 posted on 07/16/2024 8:07:56 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Let us interview an agent who will confirm that this was too much a sloped roof for an agent.


11 posted on 07/16/2024 8:08:05 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Fai Mao

You beat me to it. DEI


12 posted on 07/16/2024 8:08:28 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Fai Mao

Didn’t
Earn
It


13 posted on 07/16/2024 8:08:37 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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To: Enlightened1

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has demonstrated that she needs to have a cognitive test for signs of dementia.


14 posted on 07/16/2024 8:08:44 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Enlightened1

There are other buildings right next to the one in question belonging to the same company that appears to have a higher, flat roof.

The answer is total BS and she needs to go.


15 posted on 07/16/2024 8:08:47 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Enlightened1

sounds like she, Biden and Obama planned
the murder. anyone in Congress care?


16 posted on 07/16/2024 8:08:51 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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‘That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof,’ she told ABC News in an interview Tuesday.

WTF?

So the police snipers are tougher than USSS snipers?

What an effin joke.

Snipers find themselves in all kinds of uncomfortable positions to accomplish their mission.

Why doesn’t she explain that “snipers are really very small men, Lilliputian types, and very afraid of heights. So, it’s not realistic to expect over watch protection”


17 posted on 07/16/2024 8:09:08 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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'And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside.'

So she thinks that having police inside keeps the shooter from scaling the building from the outside. Is this gal for real???? SS who would lay down their lives believe a slightly angled roof is dangerous? This gal should never have been hired by Jill.

18 posted on 07/16/2024 8:09:19 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Enlightened1

where did the red ladder come from?


19 posted on 07/16/2024 8:09:42 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Enlightened1

The Secret Service Counter Sniper Team was on a sloped roof. As a kid I walked around on sloped roofs all the time with complete ease. Either she thinks everyone is an idiot or SHE is an idiot!


20 posted on 07/16/2024 8:10:27 AM PDT by Castigar
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