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Secret Service Director Gives Bizarre Reason Why An Agent Wasn't On The Roof Where Gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks Opened Fire On Trump As She Rejects Calls To Resign
DAILY MAIL ^ | 07/16/24 | Geoff Earl

Posted on 07/16/2024 8:04:02 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Embattled Secret Service head Kimberly Cheatle has revealed the fateful reason why her agency failed to position an agent on top of the building that a gunman used to carry out an assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

Cheatle, who is already facing calls to resign over what some lawmakers are calling a massive security failure, said Secret Service officials planning security for Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania considered the warehouse about 150 yards away from where Trump spoke to be a risky position for stationing an agent.

'That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there's a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn't want to put somebody up on a sloped roof,' she told ABC News in an interview Tuesday.

'And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside.'

What transpired instead was a security nightmare: Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to scale the building and secure his own position, while law enforcement struggled to locate him even amid pressing warnings from members of the Trump crowd. But there wasn't sufficient time to act on the tips, she explalined.

'The shooter was actually identified as a potential person of suspicion,' Cheatle said. 'Unfortunately, with the rapid succession of how things unfolded, by the time that individual was eventually located, they were on the rooftop and were able to fire off at the former president.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: cheatle; director; excuses; j13; kimberlycheatle; kimcheatle; noslope; outsidetheperimeter; roof; secretservice; slanted; slopedroof; thomasmatthewcrooks
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To: Enlightened1

Solipsism


281 posted on 07/17/2024 1:23:20 AM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by πŸ™ the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: Fai Mao

DEIs

* Dumb

* Entitled

* Ignorant

* Solipsism


282 posted on 07/17/2024 1:27:53 AM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by πŸ™ the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: Sicon

πŸ‘οΈ


283 posted on 07/17/2024 1:50:20 AM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by πŸ™ the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: butterdezillion

Sure Kill Roof.

“Approved”


284 posted on 07/17/2024 1:55:02 AM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by πŸ™ the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: rdcbn1

πŸ“Œ


285 posted on 07/17/2024 1:58:00 AM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by πŸ™ the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: Sicon

πŸ“Œ


286 posted on 07/17/2024 1:58:21 AM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by πŸ™ the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: MayflowerMadam

...and was her speech tonight cover?


287 posted on 07/17/2024 2:01:57 AM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by πŸ™ the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: catnipman

πŸ“Œ


288 posted on 07/17/2024 2:07:58 AM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by πŸ™ the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

“That is a video of Hawley and Granholm, not Cheatle.”

Sorry. My error.

However, it’s a good indication of what’s to come.

:)


289 posted on 07/17/2024 2:11:04 AM PDT by Does so ( πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦....We are in the later stages of a Communist takeover... )
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To: Enlightened1

She’s stupid. And incompetent. Time for the DEI chick to step down.


290 posted on 07/17/2024 4:08:36 AM PDT by GOPJ (Trump was NOT Hitler last time. He won't be a dictator this time. Democrats and the MSM lie. )
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To: GOPJ

“She’s stupid. And incompetent.”

Her best feature is that she takes orders from her superiors perfectly. She didn’t come up with this assassination attempt on her own.


291 posted on 07/17/2024 4:23:45 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's not as if Biden has the nuclear codes or anything. 😳)
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To: MayflowerMadam

What does it mean this gunman on the roof? Why did he pick such curious a place? It might not mean a thing but then again it might. What does it mean this gunman on the roof let’s wait for him to shoot and see!


292 posted on 07/17/2024 4:38:40 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Boardwalk

This gunman on the roof a most unlikely sight. It might not mean a thing but then again it might.


293 posted on 07/17/2024 4:40:16 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Tom Tetroxide

1 to 12


294 posted on 07/17/2024 4:51:30 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: 1Old Pro

Nam vets do.


295 posted on 07/17/2024 4:51:59 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8582496,-79.9701354,3a,75y,266.21h,83.67t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sfA5goonaQhB7T3QLqlMuaA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DfA5goonaQhB7T3QLqlMuaA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D266.2070792235934%26pitch%3D6.332076147869813%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu

OSHA has been notified of the Safety Rope Violation - missing from the edges of the VERY DANGEROUS!!! sloped roof.

AGR needs to lawyer up as the shooters parents are filing a law suit.


296 posted on 07/17/2024 4:59:10 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: wildcard_redneck

put it in

photoshop and measure the slope for yourself!


297 posted on 07/17/2024 5:00:21 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Brown Deer

Two gun tripods and one camera tripod.


298 posted on 07/17/2024 5:04:08 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Nogara
We know the kid liked gaming.

What male doesn't?

299 posted on 07/17/2024 5:05:17 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: MNJohnnie

It appears that way, but the view is not perpendicular to the side of the building.


300 posted on 07/17/2024 5:06:29 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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