Posted on 08/27/2024 8:56:27 AM PDT by Jacquerie
During the Monday forum hosted by the independent investigation into the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump, Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) raised the uncomfortable question surrounding the shooting: Did the Secret Service allow it to happen?
Rep. Gaetz began the discussion with Blackwater founder Erik Prince, who suggested that the Secret Service, or even the American government at large, have not learned anything from the assassination attempt and noted that hypothetical perpetrators such as ISIS or Hezbollah would have done worse and succeeded in killing Trump.
"I guess my question to you is, because this has been laid bare and these weaknesses have been exposed, are you concerned that we are likely to face not another [Thomas] Crooks, but perhaps a threat like you described, a team from a foreign adversary, a terrorist organization, trying to expose and exploit the weaknesses that we have now seen?" Rep. Gaetz asked.
Prince answered, saying he was "very concerned" at the Secret Service and government's apparent lack of willingness to learn from the mistakes made in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Gaetz claimed that members of the Secret Service's "Pittsburgh field office have been put on leave and I have also seen the story change, where initially, the Secret Service was blaming folks in local government, and then there was admission that there were not appropriate responses to requests for additional manpower."
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This was where Gaetz asked the big, uncomfortable question: "The key question here is whether this was your run-of-the-mill government incompetence or whether you see features of such disregard for the duty at hand that you believe that there is some malice."
While Bongino did not say there was definite malice in denying Trump extra protection, the Secret Service could have become politicized and influenced its decision-making.
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Anyone have a hard question?
Lol.
But really no l’ing. š„“
Does the pope crap in the woods? Is the bear Catholic? Of course the FBI/Secret Service did this.
Good that someone finally said it out loud.
Yes.
Why is it still tolerated without accountability?
Ever since this happened I’ve felt the Deep State didn’t plan it but was aware of it and then let it play out.
I say yes.
The secret service, and the FBI and DOJ have been hoping for the evil deed to occur, and they would do nothing to prevent it, if they knew it was coming.
The assassination attempt was easy to prevent, if they had wanted to prevent it. They ignored the warnings and the obvious actions that Crookes took to assassinate Trump. Their ‘assistance’ to Crookes was not successful, and now, they’re trying to explain away their ‘failures’ and ‘mistakes’.
Whenever anything can be explained by incompetence and stupidity, that is the correct answer.
But when there are many "coincidences" all tilted in the same direction (i.e., supporting the same outcome), the likelihood of coincidence is significantly reduced (i.e., it looks intentional).
Well think. 1) It’s time to move on. 2) End welfare as we know it/Safe, legal and rare. 3) If you like your doctor.
People can say anything. What’s obvious in their hearts and brains is not admissible in court. That’s what they’re running with. It’s like no controlling legal authority. Get them on the incompetence. That’s all we can do. Won’t happen.
Brian Epstein killed himself.
It’s not up to the gubmint to prove who did it.
The gubmint NEEDS to prove beyond reasonable doubt that it wasn’t involved.
Something it has FAILED to do in past assassinations and assignation attempts.
Facts thus far are crystal clear.
A twenty year old dietary assistant at a nursing home managed to get to a “perfect” site for a kill shot unimpeded.
Not only that WHILE he was being scoped by counter snipers, he was able to get off eight shots.
I do think that maybe the Management did things to allow or encourage the "holes in the Swiss cheese" to conveniently align so that sh!t could fall through. And some did.
Brian?
Brian Epstein? The same Brian Epstein who managed the Beatles?
Wow, Gaetz.
Really thought you were smarter than this. /S
Is wasn’t enabled.
It was coordinated and three ring circused by SS
If they "allowed" it, logic dictates that they knew about it
And if they knew about it, it means someone in the organization had a part in its planning.
>> and then let it play out.
has me curious about 9-11
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