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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This is “in your face” lying. She is saying “I am in charge, and you must believe the b.s. I am telling you”.
This just confirms this is a dark event.
Let us hear from an SS agent testifying that they don’t do sloped roofs.
This answer is way beyond DEI.
DEI can get you killed. They also fly airplanes and are air traffic controllers.
I have no problem with a minority or female doing any job so long as they meet the same standards. My flight instructor many years ago was a woman. She was skilled and earned her place by skill before DEI existed. She ended her career as a senior Captain with Southwest Airlines. She earned it with skill not DEI.
Why didn’t they out a Sniper Dummy up there , hey she could have done it
Jim Hoft has a good article this morning about a vendor of Trump memorabilia who has gone to every Trump rally; she noticed a lot of odd things that were unique to the Butler rally - such as there were no cranes, trucks or other vehicles used to block the line of sight from the buildings.
“””’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.”””
1. This absolutely stupid statement is something we have come to expect from Kamala ‘Cackles’ Harris. Kamala must have been her coach on what to say.
2. Yeah, the slope of that roof was so dangerously steep that the shooter’s body immediately slid off the roof onto the ground. (Oops did not happen that way.)
Don’t forget, it was a hot day, hotter on a tin roof, too hot for safe working conditions authorized by OSHA.
She’s just another political hack , a Yes Girl
Hardly a slope. The slope on that roof would be easily walkable.
well, he did get nailed to that roof with a nice chunk of copper coated lead.
“She is a DEI hire”
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Very common in the government. And the DEI’s hire even more DEI’s.
The roof looked flat when the dead Crooks was on it
Lying POS.
She is becoming a primary reason for demanding that the head of the SS be a trained combat male veteran. I have no doubt that any veteran of any of the armed services would have omitted or ignored the threat that existed on that roof.
Oh. My. Gawd. I am shaking my head in utter disgust. How in the world this bimbo DEI idiot gets to stay on the job is a sad, sick indictment on where we are as a country, a nation.
How much slope must a sloped roof slope to be used as cover for murdering the leading candidate in a presidential election?
Evidently whatever Cheetos Kim says it is.
Not if there were the usual barriers to direct line-of-sight shots. Gateway Pundit has an article where a gal who does vending at Trump rallies says she knew immediately when she was setting up that everything was all wrong because - for one thing - there were not bulldozers, scaffolding, etc set up like EVERY OTHER TIME to create obstacles to direct line-of-sight shots being possible.
Also, if we had decent media people, somebody would ask her why the sniper on the water tower didn’t shoot down the would-be assassin in the 25 minutes he was on the roof before taking a shot, instead of waiting until Trump was at the podium (even though there was an active shooter situation they were aware of) and the assassin fired his shots.
Another thing in the GP article was a source close to local LE who said that in spite of the sheriff’s protests, he was told to stand down and NOT provide manpower and SWAT teams to help beef up security.
Somebody needs to ask her about that - just like somebody should have asked Pelosi why she refused 10,000 National Guardsmen on J6. The real answer is the same for both: if security had been there who actually intended to do their jobs, these violent acts could not have happened. And they were DESIGNED to happen because they furthered the political ends of the Deep State.
“Dr.” Jill got her hired. Head of SS is now a DEI gig.
Joe - so out of it - said he had confidence in “him” — Joe doesn’t even know who is head of the Secret Service.
Came out this week his cabinet - remember the 25th A? - hasn’t even met in over a year.
Cabal is running our country and this was an attempt to take Trump out.
The whitewash continues, but they can’t conceal the hard truth (remember, Truth before facts..) This was an inside job. Period. You can’t look at the hard evidence and NOT conclude that this was an inside job. The only error (thank the Good Lord) was the assassin missed.
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