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Warning signs about Secret Service emerged months before Trump assassination attempt
Just the News ^ | July 14, 2024 12:08am Updated: July 14, 2024 8:54am | John Solomon

Posted on 07/14/2024 6:03:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Driving Vice President-elect Kamala Harris by an undetected bomb. Refusing extra resources for a presidential candidate. Admitting an agent on a White House detail assaulted her supervisor. 

Long before the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday night such focused a harsh light on the Secret Service, the presidential security agency was already facing difficult questions about its capability, training, recruitment and emphasis on diversity.

Secret Service agents reportedly were even circulating a petition raising questions about their management a few weeks ago.

Those questions are now certain to receive intense new attention after video footage showed a gunman on was able to scale a building less than 200 yards from Trump, get to a shooting perch with a rifle and fire several rounds before being neutralized by a Secret Service sniper team at the event Saturday night in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Several witnesses said they started to yell the man had a gun before he started shooting. And several lawmakers say they are now investigating reports that the Trump campaign had requested additional security resources recently, and was turned down. 

“How could you have somebody on the rooftop?” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, himself a victim of political violence when he was seriously wounded at a congressional baseball practice. “There are reports that people watched him climb up the roof and even alerted authorities, and we're going to be looking into that.”

How could that happen with all the authorities around that they miss something so clear that the shooter was able to get that kind of line of sight just 150 yards away from the stage?”

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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Someone quipped she should be more concerned with Trump’s life than her sunglasses. After that I noticed she did pay attention to changing hands with them after taking them off.


41 posted on 07/14/2024 11:26:42 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: roving

Is that the stupid FAT SS CHICK that couldn’t get her gun in her holster????


42 posted on 07/15/2024 4:01:21 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Worse, reports are the police officer observed the shooter for THREE MINUTES through his scope and was denied permission to take him out before he opened fire on Trump.

Can you source that please?

43 posted on 07/15/2024 7:30:38 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: RoseofTexas

Somebody on a thread yesterday said the SS sniper rules of engagement (ROE) are to wait until the rifle-aiming subject shoots to return fire because it might just be somebody with a telescope.

Sounds like one of those things they can selectively enforce and then when a Republican Presidential candidate gets shot they can claim the were following their ROE.


44 posted on 07/15/2024 8:27:43 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

45 posted on 07/15/2024 8:30:50 AM PDT by New Perspective (As Leonard Cohen said once in an interview, “You won’t like what comes after America”)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
It's a sketchy, unconfirmed report here on FR by "sushiman" on Sunday July 14:

Video shows Trump shooter crawling into position while folks point him out to law enforcement

See Post #28. I haven't seen it confirmed.

Watching the video of the police sniper, you see that he has his rifle aimed at the shooter's location and is observing. He doesn't fire until the assassin fires. Maybe that video was truncated so it does not show anything earlier.

46 posted on 07/15/2024 9:13:49 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: roving

Does she look like, “Did we get him?” She is the one who couldn’t even holster her weapon at the vehicle President Trump was put in!


47 posted on 07/15/2024 12:03:20 PM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals crazy!)
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