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Secret Service admits golf course wasn’t searched before Trump assassination attempt
NY Post ^ | 09/17/2024 | Emily Crane

Posted on 09/17/2024 7:30:32 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Secret Service agents didn’t sweep the outskirts of Donald Trump’s Florida golf course where his alleged would-be assassin was hiding because the former president’s visit was an “off-the-record” plan, the embattled agency’s acting director admitted.

Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, allegedly set up a sniper’s nest on the edge of Trump International West Palm Beach and hid there undetected for nearly 12 hours before Trump, 78, teed off on Sunday afternoon, federal prosecutors said.

Acting Secret Service head Ronald Rowe Jr. said Monday that agents didn’t mount an intense search of the perimeter because the 45th president’s round wasn’t on his official calendar.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fail; florida; golfcourse; searched; secretservice; trump

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Not shocking at all
1 posted on 09/17/2024 7:30:32 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That’s his story and he’s sticking to it.


2 posted on 09/17/2024 7:32:44 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So if it was “off the record”, how did the guy know about it in order to setup a hide 12 hours earlier?


3 posted on 09/17/2024 7:33:42 AM PDT by P8riot (You will never know Jesus Christ as a reality in your life until you know Him as a necessity.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Obviously, at least one person on the security team provided location and schedule information to the potential shooter, or someone on his team. We still have rats and snakes in the cellar.


4 posted on 09/17/2024 7:36:56 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: P8riot

“how did the guy know about it in order to setup a hide 12 hours earlier?”

There was a probability that Trump would show up based on Trump’s history of showing up there.

It’s like picking a stock. Sometimes you get a 10-bagger.


5 posted on 09/17/2024 7:38:03 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (Kamala: "some people need more, so we all end up in the same place, right?”)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It sounds like Trump tries to do a round almost every day, scheduled or not. That’s not a good enough excuse.


6 posted on 09/17/2024 7:38:18 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

At who’s direction?


7 posted on 09/17/2024 7:39:59 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It seems God stepped in if the Secret Service is telling the truth about noticing a barrel sticking out of the brush. Normally, you wouldn’t stick a barrel out any until you are ready to shoot. And seeing the end of a barrel at that distance is very fortunate.


8 posted on 09/17/2024 7:40:29 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Woke , lazy and useless


9 posted on 09/17/2024 7:41:13 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Other than stand around and look the other way..what is it that the SS does?


10 posted on 09/17/2024 7:41:26 AM PDT by Leep (Re-elect deep state. 2024!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The perp was found and arrested by LOCAL sheriff. Is this correct?


11 posted on 09/17/2024 7:43:00 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: ChicagoConservative27

All part of the plan.

Find and groom a patsy.

Provide unsecured perimeter and safe passage to nest.

Allow shots to be taken.

Act surprised.

Admit the process failures short of participation.

Blame the victim.

Did I miss anything?


12 posted on 09/17/2024 7:43:42 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you"e)
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To: lee martell

I wonder if the Secret Service uses dogs in their protection details, I’ve never seen one but don’t know the answer.

It would seem to me a couple of agents with dogs could easily sweep the perimeter and easily detect someone hiding, assuming you want to find people.


13 posted on 09/17/2024 7:44:02 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: ChicagoConservative27

These people didn’t even bother to search the golf course treeline perimeter, you know where any possible assassin would be located.


14 posted on 09/17/2024 7:44:45 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: alternatives?

Also the guy was wearing an orange shirt. It might have been a different outcome if he had been wearing camouflage clothing..


15 posted on 09/17/2024 7:46:06 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In fairness to the Secret Service, this golf course has many slopes.


16 posted on 09/17/2024 7:47:38 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: alternatives?

More likely the cover was blown another way and SS fabricated the story to look like heroes when they intentionally left the parameter unsecured and offered safe passage to the nest.

Who’s playing Darth Vader in all this. “You have failed me for the last time”

Who’s the new douchey head of the SS who can’t get the Death Star built.


17 posted on 09/17/2024 7:49:45 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you"e)
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To: P8riot

One or more traitorous moles


18 posted on 09/17/2024 7:49:49 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (What does the Deep State have on Dims and RINOs? Demand release of all tax returns)
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To: dragnet2

They use thermal imaging, or at least they should be using it.


19 posted on 09/17/2024 7:49:54 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: thegagline

Ha!


20 posted on 09/17/2024 7:50:28 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you"e)
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