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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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.
Is that the stupid FAT SS CHICK that couldn’t get her gun in her holster????
Can you source that please?
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.
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.
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!
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