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Major Breach as UK Security Allowed Protesting Paraglider to Fly Within Yards of Trump...
Gateway Pundit ^ | July 14, 2018 | Kristinn Taylor (our own Kristinn)

Posted on 07/14/2018 2:34:30 PM PDT by McGruff

This was an appalling security breach that could have resulted in dozens killed and wounded–including President Trump.

Friday night soon after Trump arrived at his Trump Turnberry golf club in Scotland, a Greenpeace protester flying a motored paraglider with a large anti-Trump banner hanging below flew within yards overhead of Trump who was outside receiving guests, forcing him to race inside with his Secret Service detail.

Inexplicably, first U.K. security on the perimeter and then U.S. security on top and around the building allowed the paraglider to fly unmolested over Trump, members of his national security team, senior administration officials and dozens of guests assembled outside, and the building–and then allowed the flyer to escape!

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TOPICS: United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: greenpeace; paraglider; scotland
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He should have been shot out of the sky the moment he turned towards the building. The SOB snipers on the rooftop either had “pussy orders”, or hesitated (in which case they should be fired).


21 posted on 07/14/2018 3:03:03 PM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: Leaning Right

Dry run?


22 posted on 07/14/2018 3:03:33 PM PDT by wally_bert (Just call me Angelo or babe.)
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To: petitfour

Safe house on the way to another country with help from the British government.


23 posted on 07/14/2018 3:06:04 PM PDT by wally_bert (Just call me Angelo or babe.)
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To: CGASMIA68

When half the Scottish governing body supports and leads these anti-Trump protests and allows Green Peace to orchestrate their activists and plan the protests with other activists like themselves....you cannot expect anything other than this.

BTW my good friend from Scotland said the face of her nation is gone and not even close to the Scotland she once loved because so many foreigners have entered the country.


24 posted on 07/14/2018 3:09:44 PM PDT by caww
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To: CGASMIA68

SS should have fired LAW dead center to the chest of that guy.


25 posted on 07/14/2018 3:09:46 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: LongWayHome

A new batch of loyal Secret Service is needed.

Toss the current no-loads to the curb.


26 posted on 07/14/2018 3:10:13 PM PDT by wally_bert (Just call me Angelo or babe.)
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To: redcatcherb412

Not really - Khan is the mayor of London. This happened in Scotland.


27 posted on 07/14/2018 3:14:54 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: McGruff
Maybe some Goose Hunters can volunteer to guard against idiots like that and being in Trump's security force.

Arm them with 2016/Browning-BPS-10-Gauge-Stalkers- using 3.5 inch shells.


28 posted on 07/14/2018 3:16:56 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump: "Families of American citizens murdered by illegals are permanently separated from them!)
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To: McGruff

It’s one thing to protest; quite another to violate air space and approach so dangerously close with unsearchable equipment. It may have caused an international incident, but I would rather have had this man shot down at a distance than to have our president endangered. Next time, an actual weapon could be deployed since they know we won’t shoot if they are “protesting”.


29 posted on 07/14/2018 3:20:23 PM PDT by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: McGruff

I am thoroughly disgusted with the level and amount of acerbic and RUDE behavior leveled at Trump at all levels on his visit to UK. President Trump, do not go back! They are not worthy of our money nor help.


30 posted on 07/14/2018 3:21:13 PM PDT by 3161J410
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To: 3161J410

I disagree, I think Trump has more supporters in Britain than people think, but they’ve been intimated into silence. Hopefully by Trump visiting, they will feel more empowered to speak up.


31 posted on 07/14/2018 3:22:25 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: McGruff

Hey Secret Service: why the F##% didn’t you blow this clear and present danger to President Trump out of the air?! You were one of the last FedGov law enforcement organizations many of us still respected. EPIC FAIL!


32 posted on 07/14/2018 3:25:25 PM PDT by piytar (If it was not for double standards, the Democrats and the left would have NO standards.)
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To: caww

That was a big point of the sequel to Trainspotting. I don’t even know if it was the point, but it was shocking to see how the country had changed in the twenty years between films. The first was kind of an indictment of the Scottish welfare system, and everyone was Scottish. In the second one, it seemed like almost everyone he encountered was Indian, Eastern European, anything but Scottish.


33 posted on 07/14/2018 3:28:29 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: McGruff

The guy flew within a few yards of heavily armed British and American police / security services - and they ask for the help of the public to catch him! You couldn’t make it up!

I really pray that Trump gets home safely because I think the local security especially are just a bunch of clowns.


34 posted on 07/14/2018 3:30:43 PM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: LongWayHome

The only thing they did....told the president to run for his life. It’s utter madness that this happened.
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Every agent should be fired immediately, no excuses!


35 posted on 07/14/2018 3:31:03 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: House Atreides

“That action should be preapproved SHOOT TO KILL ORDERS.”

it’s the only safe course to take, because they can’t tell if these drones or manned flights are armed ...


36 posted on 07/14/2018 3:31:11 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: KittyKares

I would fire a missle into a Scotish field in response to this. Bastards!


37 posted on 07/14/2018 3:31:23 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy UP!__food)
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To: marktwain
It is a difficult choice. It is not as though President Trump had a fleet of aircraft, ready to intercept, at his command.

In this case, a shotgun or a Mac-10 either one would have done the job. No fleet of aircraft needed.

38 posted on 07/14/2018 3:31:54 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: wally_bert

I agree that Trump needs to get new SS protection. There’s no excuse to just stand there!

Get the damn Texas Rangers up to D.C. to protect him if this beltway scum can’t do the job. I’m steamed at this nonsense!


39 posted on 07/14/2018 3:32:39 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: piytar

Have you forgotten the SS supervisor who publicly said that she wouldn’t take a bullet for Trump?


40 posted on 07/14/2018 3:32:58 PM PDT by PAR35
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