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.”
I think that prior to the Congressional hearing set for later this month, Congress should give the heads of the Secret Service and Homeland Security a vote of no confidence.
if true that Secret Service snipers cannot shoot someone aiming a weapon at a Presidential candidate, then whoever initiated and whoever approved such rule should be required to testify before congress ASAP.
Am I serious? Are you for real? If the current director of the SS was at Post Cereal until 2022, she was also in the SS when Biden was VP in 2008-2016?????
Whose? Democrats. Biden, et al.
Thank you....Can’t believe we have so many halt and blind at FR today!!!!
The enlarged photo on:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4251394/posts
I’m thinking FBI in particular. J. Edgar Hoover taught them well..............
No problem. I was going to post it really big, but didn’t want to take up all that bandwidth...lol
In one video I noticed as they were getting Trump into the Suburban, one female SS agent took a couple of stabs trying to holster her gun but failed and then drew it back up while another female SS agent took a second to put her sunglasses on. Now, I am sure there are plenty of women out there that may be perfectly capable, but I am not certain these two could be counted amongst them. Just saying...
The Biden administration wanted President Trump dead.
Their only failure was their plan did not work.
Do you want to have Congressional hearings on that failure?
:-)
I read somewhere over the weekend that the SS agents on duty that day were ‘replacements’..............
Wonder where all the naysayers disappeared to after you posted the picture!!! Some are still trying to figure out how the current SS Director was also on Biden’s VP detail!!!
Making it up as they go along works for awhile!!!!
Correct, Secret Service is right underneath the word police.
Good catch. Hard to see, but you can spot it at high resolution.
THEY FIRED THE GUY WHO SHOT THE SNIPER?????
S’PLAIN THAT TO AMERICAN PUBLIC, LUCY
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Yeah, Bongino believes they are all great people, only the best - and the CEO has to go.
That’s not what happened.
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Someone is asking the right questions.
The Investigation will be like Mueller, Horowitz, and Durham - slow boat to nowhere.
When did she start guarding CHEETOS? EVERYONE on TV said she worked on BIDENSVP DETAIL...do you know better? Also the media says she was at the SS for 26 years ??
That is terrifying and enraging, both at the same time.
That FBI agent should spend the rest of his life in an 8x12 supermax cell, along with all his superiors all the way up the line.
Impose a target around Trump's face
And this quote from Biden....
“I have one job, and that’s to beat Donald Trump. I’m absolutely certain I’m the best person to be able to do that. So, we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.
It was shadow government setup for a hit, and they missed.
If you are going to kill the King, you best not miss.
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