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A Compromised Secret Service
City Journal ^ | 15 July 2024 | Christopher Rufo

Posted on 07/15/2024 2:45:45 PM PDT by Rummyfan

The agency has sacrificed its basic mission on the altar of DEI.

It was a shot heard around the world.

On Saturday, a gunman whom the FBI has identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks fired a burst of rifle shots at former president Donald Trump, grazing his ear and nearly killing him. The attempted assassination is an historic, and perilous, moment. We’ll get commentaries and investigations, and the government will announce reforms.

But amid all the chaos weaves the thread of another story, one that reveals a mounting problem in our political life. A surprising number of the Secret Service agents protecting the former president were women. And, according to video recordings of the scene, many did not acquit themselves favorably.

Scene one: after President Trump ducks, a group of agents leaps to him and protects him with their bodies. A female agent who rushes to the stage acts bravely, without a doubt, but the point of the “huddle” is to protect the president. The agent was much shorter than President Trump, leaving his head and neck exposed after he stood up.

Scene two: as Trump enters the escape vehicle, a female Secret Service agent fumbles her gun and cannot find her holster; another female agent appears confused and, in the moment of crisis, decides to use both of her hands to put on her sunglasses; a third looks frightened and uncertain.

These agents wear the typical Secret Service outfits—Kevlar vests pressing against white shirts; black blazers with gold pins; dark sunglasses—but to an impartial observer, they do not appear to have the same poise, confidence, and strength as the male agents around them.

The obvious question: Why so many female agents? The answer, unfortunately, is the same as in many other institutions: DEI.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: assassinationattempt; dei; deimustdie; secretservice
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To: butterdezillion

“Cheatle deliberately made Trump less safe. This was DEFINITELY an inside job.”

It’s woke in your face snark as in “I’ll show that misogynist Trump” women can do it.


61 posted on 07/15/2024 4:23:31 PM PDT by rxh4n1 ( )
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To: ar10

You probably know what you are doing.


62 posted on 07/15/2024 4:24:53 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: bray

You ain’t the only one who thinks that it was an inside job in other words the Beltway crowd was in on the assassination attempt from the start🤔🤔🤔!


63 posted on 07/15/2024 4:31:31 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (Treason is the reason for Democrat Sedition & subvertion )
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To: MIA_eccl1212

I agree.


64 posted on 07/15/2024 4:32:27 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: stockpirate
No one wonders if the SS left the roof uncovered on purpose so the shooter could go there.

I assume that's not meant to be serious. It is perfectly reasonable to speculate that the Secret Service left the roof uncovered so the shooter would be able to kill Trump. The Secret Service had a glaringly obvious professional duty to cover the hell out of that rooftop. They can't now say, "Oopsie, our bad! Silly us!"

65 posted on 07/15/2024 4:34:45 PM PDT by TChad
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To: butterdezillion

Thanks for the link.

People must be fired but I doubt if that happens to the top.


66 posted on 07/15/2024 4:37:40 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Karl Spooner

As I remember, those agents were pissed and wondered what the hell was going on.


67 posted on 07/15/2024 4:39:29 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: laplata

People must not only be fired. They must be sent to Gitmo.

And I pray that will happen in Trump’s next term.


68 posted on 07/15/2024 4:42:32 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Rummyfan

Literally the Keystone cops.


69 posted on 07/15/2024 4:44:10 PM PDT by Track9 (If you want to know about human nature, read a power tool user manual. )
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To: MIA_eccl1212

From what you saw on the video footage, did it seem like the guys on the roof behind Trump ever did fire? I wonder what Erik Prince’s evidence is, for the distance the kill shot to the shooter was.


70 posted on 07/15/2024 4:46:13 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: rxh4n1

What’s ironic is that Trump asked for more protection and not only did this gal say “no” but she also took away the Secret Service agents who were protecting Trump and replaced them with untrained people and women who were incapable of the job.

Just days after Biden said he would stay in the race because Trump was very soon going to be “challenged” in a way unlike ever before.

I actually suspect that she used those women so that it could be used as an excuse for the security failures that any fool can see were deliberate.

Dr Jill chose this gal to head the SS because she “liked” her. Dr. Jill was also the one who told Joe to stay in the race - even when all the democrat powers were telling him to get out. Did Dr. Jill call in this “favor” to Cheatie?


71 posted on 07/15/2024 4:52:56 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Rummyfan

My son in law is a cop and the three newest recruits are young women. 🙄


72 posted on 07/15/2024 4:54:18 PM PDT by kelly4c
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To: Sequoyah101

Yep....


73 posted on 07/15/2024 5:22:09 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Jeff Chandler
NO SS agent should be sporting a ponytail.

I have always been puzzled as to why the female agents are allowed to have long hair, and not be required to have short haircuts. So much for equality and such. The long hair is detrimental for the work.

74 posted on 07/15/2024 5:26:39 PM PDT by roadcat ( )
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To: Midwesterner53
Male cops know full well they are on their own when partnered with females.

Yep. Happened with a brother-in-law, who was a cop at SFPD. Did patrol work and ended up partnered with a female cop who was useless. Hated it. He managed to switch to motorcycle duty and was much happier.

75 posted on 07/15/2024 5:30:13 PM PDT by roadcat ( )
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To: caww

Well said.


76 posted on 07/15/2024 5:39:56 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Sequoyah101

Google “President Biden Security Detail” ... every picture, all dudes and not short ones. Hmmmmm.


77 posted on 07/15/2024 5:46:33 PM PDT by Riflema
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To: butterdezillion
Cheatle deliberately made Trump less safe. This was DEFINITELY an inside job.

YEP, No doubt.

78 posted on 07/15/2024 5:48:59 PM PDT by timestax
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To: butterdezillion
“challenged” in a way unlike ever before.

Yes, who talks like that?--UNLESS they are privy to the dirty plot.

79 posted on 07/15/2024 5:53:15 PM PDT by timestax
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To: butterdezillion

For sure! Fill up the place to the brim and add on as needed.


80 posted on 07/15/2024 6:08:02 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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