Posted on 07/15/2024 8:26:58 AM PDT by Red Badger
Former Secret Service officer Dan Bongino is perhaps the most well-placed person to comment on the failures surrounding the assassination attempt against Donald Trump at his rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
Bongino called the incident “an apocalyptic security failure” by the Secret Service and called for the resignation of its Director, Kim Cheatle.
Miraculously, Trump was slightly wounded in the shooting after the bullet grazed his ear, literally less than inches from striking him in the head.
Tragically, one audience member sitting behind Trump was killed by a bullet, while several others were wounded, two critically, by the spray of bullets.
During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Bongino said Trump did the right thing by quickly collapsing behind the stage, which he said was likely armored.
“Donald Trump knew to duck — most people would,” Bongino said.
“He saved his own life. That’s just a fact.”
While the agents who jumped onto the stage to cover Trump before hustling him away, the former Secret Service agent said overall, “The failure here is absolutely catastrophic.”
According to Bongino, multiple authoritative sources told him, “There have been repeated requests to increase the security footprint around, not just the residences of Donald Trump, but [Trump’s] body itself, and they have been rebuffed.”
He laid the blame for the major security blunder on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle.
“The Secret Service director has completely failed, and, candidly, should resign today,” Bongino said.
“Kim Cheatle has failed Donald Trump.”
He also scoffed at the agency’s reported complaints about lack of staffing, and their boasts about technology
“I mean, this is — you’re blaming it on manpower?” Bongino said.
“So, just to be clear, we’re a $4 trillion United States government, and we can’t fork over enough money to keep our people alive?
“And then you’re sending out tweets like, ‘Oh, this is the best technology we have.’ Really? To let a sniper 150 yards away from the potential next president shoot a piece of his ear off? Pshhh! That’s your victory lap? Gimme a break, man!”
He continued:
“You have one job, and only one job,” he said.
“Your job is, ‘keep the body alive, no matter what.’ — Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Jill Biden, the president of Djibouti — it doesn’t matter. That is your job. They absolutely, resolutely, 100 percent failed. “
Bongino, who has twelve years of Secret Service experience under his belt, said, “This isn’t the agency I grew up in.”
He went on to say he still knows people in the agency, adding, “These are good men and women. But this was an apocalyptic security failure.”
“Don’t ever forget that an ‘uneventful’ failure is never a success. And the fact that Donald Trump didn’t die yesterday is no reason for anybody to take some kind of victory lap.”
He then called for a congressional investigation into the security detail’s failures following the assassination attempt.
“[B]efore we start sending out plaudits, we’d better look at and do a hot wash on this and find out exactly how abysmal the security plan was,” Bongino said.
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During his “Bongino Report” podcast Saturday, Bongingo revealed that Trump does not currently have “a full presidential package” of protection.
He accused Cheatle of playing politics before repeating his call for her to step down.
“I could tell you stories for days about her putting politics ahead of presidential protection,” he said.
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Bongino concluded with an appeal for his listeners to pray for America’s future.
“Just open up,” he said.
“Prayer matters. It’s not a joke. It’s not some scam,” he said.
“We need Him right now. The nation needs Him.”
He also praised Trump for his defiant response following the shooter’s attack.
“Campaigns are just snapshots and sound bites — that’s all they are,” he observed.
“Donald Trump’s got a lotta guts, man,” he said.
“Gettin’ up there, exposing himself again to what he knew — what he knew — was an assassination attempt. And pounding his fist in the air.
“That snapshot’s gonna live forever.”
“the biggest reason Trump’s life was put in danger is because rules of engagement prohibit snipers from engaging until the assassin shoots first.”
Even if the statement were true—which I do not believe—the biggest reason President Trump’s life was in danger was that Secret Service agents on site did not communicate (that a potential gunmen was loose on the roof of a nearby building) to the Secret Service agents on stage in a timely manner so President Trump could hit the ground and then be removed from the stage.
That failure to communicate was not a mistake.
It was not an oversight.
It was intentional—deliberate—calculated—part of the assassination plot.
That’s what this was on Saturday - “POLICE” and beneath it “SECRET SERVICE”. I’ve been looking for the enlarged photo that was posted here yesterday - I’m sure there are others who remember who posted it....
Read my posts where I have repeatedly said that Charlie Ward is reporting on what the sniper said on his show this morning on Bitchute.
You don’t get all or even half the facts on the MSM. They are the controlled opposition. Much of the time Alternative media breaks the information first.
Cheatle should be charged with negligent homicide.
She wasn’t with the SS then...FOLKS - please read!!!!!!
Why wait until July 22?
Radio from Atlanta isn’t MSM.....
Charlie Ward “said” - what information does he have that no one else has?
SHE WAS WITHY THE SS WHEN BIDEN WAS VP!!! SHE WAS ON HIS DETAIL!! THAT”S WHY HE HIRED HER FOR THE DIRECTOR! What are you talking about?
This was not a SS failure. Their shooter failed to kill Trump. This was a SS assassination attempt.
I posted one link for you ... perhaps you could please provide the Bitchute link.
Thx.
“”repeatedly said that Charlie Ward is reporting””
That doesn’t strike you as a little ODD - repeatedly repeating what someone else has reported??????? Means it MUST BE TRUE????
A man that would climb into the shower with his 12 year-old daughter would think nothing of getting naked in front of a female SS Agent.
The question is why would a grown person want or need to go ‘skinny-dipping’ in a pool in front of strangers?................
Good grief people...she was still at Post Cereal in 2022!!!!!! WHEN was Biden VP???????
“When there is a freaking 100 foot water tower. Not one harder yards away. That overlooks every single roof going East from there. He would have been easily spotted.”
Crooks was spotted — By civilians on the ground, the police officer who climbed up to the roof, and the SS counter-sniper officers who had their sniper rifles sighted on Crooks, but did not open fire until Crooks fired at Trump.
If Crooks was somebodies ‘patsy’ and was to be killed immediately upon completion of his mission, the question is whose patsy was he?
Lee Harvey Oswald claimed he was a patsy and didn’t kill anybody, and James Earl Ray, on his deathbed told the King family that he did not kill their father.
“History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” - Mark Twain...................
Yes! Her! I just posted on another thread (or maybe already on this one because I have lost track😬) In the white tshirt and sunglasses, right? I zoomed in on her and watched several times. She is either one VERY cool cucumber or knew she was safe.
The leftists were trying to blow President Trump's brains out..
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Just wanting to level the playing field for the next debate.
I guess the committee needs a bit more time to gather
the dirt on Cheatle..........hopefully to force her out.
Call Congress to urge Cheatle’s ouster.
(202) 224-3121 for U.S. House switchboard operator.
WTH???? Biden was VP from 2008 to 2016!!!!! Are you serious?
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