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“He also expressed skepticism over the idea of some sort of conspiracy behind the Secret Service’s lapses, explaining that even elite US security agencies are staffed with “ordinary people”
Nope. These security flaws were so basic that they required combined acts of extreme negligence by multiple supervisors and team leaders.
I don’t buy it.
Some SS folks were part of the plot.
That is a definite possibility but we don't even know if there was a plot of any kind.
This was a campaign event and a bad shooting would have destroyed President Trumps chances of re election.
And President Trump is not currently the President so we have no idea what the rules of engagement were. Neither do we have any idea of any instructions that President Trump may have given to his security team about avoiding a bad shooting .
It would have been prudent but very bad optics to have the SS team drag Trump off the stage if they knew a threat was near by.
The prime witness in the media did state that the shooter was not visible from the over watch marksman's line of sight from their location.
Until more info is available, I'm going to ascribe this one to the Dual Golden BB - that there was some sort of near act of god crazy chain of events that allowed the shooter to get in place and shoot and even more incredible act of divine intervention that saved Trump from the bullet by the width of a soda strew. Time will tell.
These security flaws were so basic that they required combined acts of extreme negligence by multiple supervisors and team leaders.
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You are thinking about the ‘old’ Secret Service, before DEI became their prime directive, before the agency was run by a gay, DEI-loving woman.