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.'
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They knew he was on the roof with a depth finder for 25 minutes before he took the shots. Yet they didn’t neutralize the threat in all that time and they let Donald Trump stand in front of the podium.
The more excuses they make, the more obvious it is that this was an inside job.
Cheatie needs to be charged and tried for manslaughter.
My thoughts exactly...her explanation is unmitigated bullsh!t.
Comedy hour—DEI hires are so stupid that all you can do is laugh.
There is no way she was briefed by Secret Service folks who planned this assassination attempt.
stupid excuse, the roof the snipers WERE on was also slopped!
Biden also warned that Trump would have a very bad week, as he grinned malevolently.
Some people feel bad that Biden has dementia. Not me. This bastard is so evil, I hope it is extremely painful.
And if the shooter was on the far side of the roof then there would be no clear line of site. Duh. //sarcasm
I am not sure if she is stupid or if she merely thinks we are stupid.
She’s lying.
The Harris/Biden Regime is slime.
The Google Earth image of the building the shooter was on shows a roof that has barely any slope.
She is giving a stupid, flippant lie. It is, in your face, I am in charge and you must accept what I tell you.
Do we have no reporters with an inch of intellectual curiosity, who will accept this answer. This answer is simply insulting!
Her level of incompetence isn’t even humorous given the seriousness of the job. I cannot believe she wasn’t immediately fired.
“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,”
Just like at Uvalde, officer safety rules the day whether its children or President Trump.
Thankfully Trumps last line of defense was the finger of God.
Does she even know what a slope is? Did she question the gal her gave her this excuse to use?
So a rank amateur sniper can position on a sloped roof but expertly trained SS snipers couldn’t handle it. Yeah right. Shall we point out the other options to stop him or remove DJT safely off stage? She needs to be fired ASAP.
She was willing to deploy in such a fashion.
worlds longest sniper kill shot is from over 2 miles away. If they really wanted to kill Trump they could have set up properly over a mile away on some building WAY outside the security perimeter and taking him out easily with a proper scope and tripod setup.
The air up there is thinner, probably would have passed out if up there in that rare atmosphere.
All my agents are afraid of heights, and it is in their contract to not be more than a few feet off the ground.
Might actually see a sniper, and then would need emotional guidance for a year or so during rehab after such a frightful event.
And the winner is:
I was ordered to do so.
Things are so bad we might just as well in unison yell "God Save Us"
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