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Physically unfit, under-qualified agents with a diversity-obsessed boss chosen by Dr Jill Biden! After Secret Service botched the Trump shooting, ANDREW NEIL exposes terrifying insider details of why they failed
Daily Mail UK ^ | July 16, 2024 | Andrew Neil

Posted on 07/16/2024 12:00:52 PM PDT by Morgana

It was a grey, drizzly Monday on March 30, 1981, when President Reagan emerged from the Washington Hilton hotel, heading back to his presidential limousine parked a few yards away.

His inauguration had been only a few weeks before and he'd just finished speaking at a lunch of US labor union leaders.

Along with the rest of the White House press corps I was about 20 feet away, roped off from the President. Suddenly, just as one of our number shouted a question for him, shots rang out.

In a split second, a burly Secret Service agent brusquely bundled Reagan into the limo, another pushed his colleague hard to ensure both he and the President were flat on the back seat.

The limo was surrounded by agents, guns drawn, the would-be assassin wrestled to the ground by the public as well as law enforcement. Reagan's vehicle sped off.

Within four minutes it was at George Washington Hospital, even though, not initially realizing the President had been hit (a bullet had entered his rib cage), the Secret Service had at first started out for the White House.

Reagan was close to death on arrival. But he survived, thanks in no small part to the speedy response of the Secret Service, which thwarted the shooter.

Now consider what happened when Donald Trump was shot on Saturday night.

The initial response was by the book. Brave agents piled on him to protect him from further bullets. They kept him down until they were told the shooter had been killed.

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


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: assassinationattempt; bidenincitement; cynthiaradway; dei; deihire; excuses; failedassassination; j13; jillbiden; jillelderabuser; kimberlycheatle; secretservice; slopedroof
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To: RummyChick
Got it. An insurmountable slope no Secret Service, SEAL, DELTA, Marine Recon, Ranger could possibly lie in a prone sniper position.

According to SS Director Cheatle, the roof was too slanted and dangerous to place more assets. About the same degree of a slope I used to skateboard on as a kid. Gawd, I despise this Administration.

61 posted on 07/16/2024 12:55:43 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: RummyChick
"this is secret service during a parade. that batshit crazy director should be fired just for the slope excuse.

Couldn't agree more. Sheesh, I used to skateboard those degrees of slope when I was a kid (1960's)

62 posted on 07/16/2024 12:59:20 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: Morgana
The initial response was by the book. Brave agents piled on him to protect him from further bullets.

This is FALSE. The initial response was slow and confused. It was 3 seconds from the first shot until SS reached Trump, who had already figured out what was happening and taken cover on his own. The short fat female agent below the dais/podium took cover and said "what are we doing? What are we doing?" for over 10 seconds and was the last of the personal detail on stage. Photographers were running around the dais just feet from Trump before he was even secured. The dais was not secured for a full 30 seconds.

63 posted on 07/16/2024 12:59:29 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: Morgana

I call BS to all these reports. They want people to thin it was incompetence and not an assassination coordinated by the Biden, the democraps, and the Secret Service.


64 posted on 07/16/2024 1:00:18 PM PDT by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: Zhang Fei
But a source within the Secret Service community tells RealClearPolitics that the agency rules of engagement in this situation are to wait until the president is fired upon to return fire.

Complete BS. Negates the entire reason for the existence of the secret service. Are they assuming the first shot will always miss? Or that they can just all stand around with their thumbs in their asses while an assassin takes out their charge?

Anyone too stupid to reject this excuse needs to go rent a second brain cell.

65 posted on 07/16/2024 1:00:26 PM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: Zhang Fei

I can understand why a police or SS sniper wouldn’t squeeze off a round at an uncertain target in this day and age, but it was absolutely inexcusable for the situation to ever get to the point where Trump was standing there exposed at all once the threat had been identified.


66 posted on 07/16/2024 1:02:03 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Ain't it funny how the night moves … when you just don't seem to have as much to lose.”)
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To: hopespringseternal

If that is the agency rule, I’d like to know when it was adopted. July 12, 2024?


67 posted on 07/16/2024 1:02:45 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Dan in Wichita

And it turned out that McCarthy was a democrat, IIRC.


68 posted on 07/16/2024 1:03:59 PM PDT by awelliott (What one generation tolerates, the next embraces....)
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To: Zhang Fei

Personally, I don’t buy all the situational confusion nonsense. They have radios. They had time. They even had warnings plural. They’re not ‘listening to the rally’. They’re looking thru scoops and listening to their radios. And then there’s even more they have going for them. This is not a chaotic urban environment. This is a simple field with several very obvious buildings. Gets me so mad to think they’re going to get away with it. People buying their bs.


69 posted on 07/16/2024 1:04:06 PM PDT by Track9 (If you want to know about human nature, read a power tool user manual. )
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To: Zhang Fei

High value targets have different ROE. Ask any SEAL, Delta, Marine Recon, Rangers and most assuredly presidential Secret Service protection. Your source is wrong. The above sees a gun, they shoot to kill. Standard operating procedure (SOP)


70 posted on 07/16/2024 1:05:02 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: fso301

Oh noes, a slanted driveway. Best get the child inside because Dad can’t use his 870 on that incline to protect his kid.


71 posted on 07/16/2024 1:07:38 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: butterdezillion
re: There is a photo of the shooter taken from above his shoulder when he was on the rooftop.

I've seen the unidentified photo that resembles Thomas Crooks. But it doesn't look like a rooftop to me.

The question then remains: Where and how was the photo taken and when?


72 posted on 07/16/2024 1:08:59 PM PDT by deks (Deo duce, ferro comitante · God for guide, sword for companion)
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To: awelliott

Democrats back then are sure a lot different than Democrats of today.


73 posted on 07/16/2024 1:10:24 PM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: PIF

Dont want to see another short fat ineffective guard in his detail from now on, disgrace.


74 posted on 07/16/2024 1:12:06 PM PDT by Gasshog (INDE)
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To: butterdezillion

The ease with which they flat-out lie should give everyone pause.


This ... and, their complete disregard for sanctity of life.


75 posted on 07/16/2024 1:13:15 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: dforest

Later


76 posted on 07/16/2024 1:15:18 PM PDT by RebelTXRose (Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for us! PRAY THE ROSARY!)
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To: RummyChick

Oh, the slope, the slope! 🙄


77 posted on 07/16/2024 1:19:22 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Morgana

The more I read, the more this sounds intentional and not incompetence. Even incompetents get some things right; nobody seems to have gotten it right here.


78 posted on 07/16/2024 1:24:59 PM PDT by falcon99 ( )
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To: joshua c

Tim McCarthy. He took a bullet for President Reagan and survived.


79 posted on 07/16/2024 1:25:48 PM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: butterdezillion

[The trouble with that guy’s assessment is that the SS knew from multiple reports that there was an armed shooter on that roof 26 minutes before the shooter fired any shots. ]


That’s not what I’ve read. The kid made multiple trips to his car. Only during that final trip did he take his rifle up. This was likely deliberate*, on the assumption that police snipers aren’t allowed to shoot unarmed individuals.

Just as he was drawing a bead, the cop poked his head above the roofline, whereupon the kid swung to face him. The knowledge that he was within maybe seconds of being fired upon probably made him rush his shots, causing death and injury to bystanders while mostly missing his primary objective.

* The kid was no Einstein, the way most people aren’t, but he was above average. He had just acquired a 2 year science diploma at the local community college, and had been accepted into the engineering program at Robert Morris University and University of Pittsburgh (#45 nationwide among engineering schools).

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-rally-gunman-identified/


80 posted on 07/16/2024 1:25:50 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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