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

[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.'

[Varsity Flight]

Solipsism

[Varsity Flight]

DEIs

* Dumb

* Entitled

* Ignorant

* Solipsism

[Varsity Flight]

👁️

[Varsity Flight]

Sure Kill Roof.

“Approved”

[Varsity Flight]

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...and was her speech tonight cover?

[Varsity Flight]

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[Does so]

“That is a video of Hawley and Granholm, not Cheatle.”

Sorry. My error.

However, it’s a good indication of what’s to come.

:)

[GOPJ]

She’s stupid. And incompetent. Time for the DEI chick to step down.

[MayflowerMadam]

“She’s stupid. And incompetent.”

Her best feature is that she takes orders from her superiors perfectly. She didn’t come up with this assassination attempt on her own.

[Boardwalk]

What does it mean this gunman on the roof? Why did he pick such curious a place? It might not mean a thing but then again it might. What does it mean this gunman on the roof let’s wait for him to shoot and see!

[Boardwalk]

This gunman on the roof a most unlikely sight. It might not mean a thing but then again it might.

[Elsie]

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[Elsie]

Nam vets do.

[Elsie]

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8582496,-79.9701354,3a,75y,266.21h,83.67t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sfA5goonaQhB7T3QLqlMuaA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DfA5goonaQhB7T3QLqlMuaA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D266.2070792235934%26pitch%3D6.332076147869813%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu

OSHA has been notified of the Safety Rope Violation - missing from the edges of the VERY DANGEROUS!!! sloped roof.

AGR needs to lawyer up as the shooters parents are filing a law suit.

[Elsie]

put it in

photoshop and measure the slope for yourself!

[Elsie]

Two gun tripods and one camera tripod.

[Elsie]

We know the kid liked gaming.

What male doesn't?

[Elsie]

It appears that way, but the view is not perpendicular to the side of the building.