[The_Media_never_lie]

SS says it is not their job to make sure the perimeter is secured.

[The_Media_never_lie]

I admit I was not expecting this response.

[Parley Baer]

The finger pointing has begun.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Lame

[FirstFlaBn]

It took them 24 hours to figger this out?

[Skwor]

Wow, that is a horrible excuse, they want us to believe they leave presidential security to Mayberry’s Barney for anything like a roof beyond 100 yards, WTH!

[ClearCase_guy]

[rightwingcrazy]

“The Secret Service was only tasked with covering the grounds where Trump’s rally took place, with local police being recruited...”

The passive voice is really useful for passing the buck. So who did the “tasking” and the “recruiting”? Raise your hand.

[EnderWiggin1970]

Feds throwing the locals under the bus...

[TexasGator]

“SS says it is not their job to make sure the perimeter is secured.”

The task can be assigned but that does not remove responsibility.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Gugliemi, the white KJP of the SS.

[Enterprise]

Pissants.

[kiryandil]

The DEI chicklets at the Secret Service are throwing the local police under the bus?

Sorry. The Feds love to throw their weight around in p*ssing contests with the local rubes.

This is a well-known fact.

[RedElement]

Classy response. Captured just the tone of every petty bureaucrat that ever slouched the earth.

[BradyLS]

The finger-pointing has officially begun!

[politicket]

The SS has one job - to keep the body they're protecting alive.

There is no blaming the local police, the county sheriff, the state patrol - nobody.

Agreed that those agencies are pathetic in many instances - but the SS has the ultimate responsibility over it all.

They failed spectacularly - or they failed because the replacement SS agents at the event didn't complete their mission of having former President Trump assassinated.

Was that stupid kid recruited? Was he a patsy?

So many questions.

[BEJ]

How did the shooter know the roof was not secured?

[tflabo]

Sounds like a Union kind of mentality. Not doing anything extra beyond what is expected of them. Same thing goes for many govt workers too.

[bray]

Weak, what are you paid for?

[AlaskaErik]

Let the blame game begin.

[mass55th]

"SS says it is not their job to make sure the perimeter is secured."

This web page says the SS is responsible for securing sites where events of national special security events are conducted, such as The Inauguration, State of the Union Address, RNC and DNC Conventions. If I were President Trump, I'd ban them all from providing me any protection at the RNC, and hire my own security detail.

United States Secret Service