Posted on 07/17/2024 4:47:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The U.S. Intelligence Community in recent weeks allegedly picked up a credible threat from the Iranian regime about a plot to assassinate former President Trump.
According to Fox News, U.S. authorities were warned about the alleged assassination plot weeks before the deadly shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Two government sources told Fox that the Department of Homeland Security, the Secret Service and others in the Intelligence Community received intel on the alleged plot through a “very good human source.”
The alleged Iranian plot does not seem at this point to be related to Thomas Matthew Crooks’ assassination attempt.
DHS claims that in response to the increased threat, Secret Service protection at Trump’s outdoor rallies was beefed up.
However, the Biden regime’s advance knowledge of a credible Iranian threat does not track with the level of protection Trump received at his rally in Pennsylvania.
“It does pose the question, if security was increased to former President Trump because of this alleged plot out of Iran, how did this happen on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania?” Fox News’ Justice Department correspondent David Spunt said during a televised report on the breaking news.
“Why would you leave the roof uncovered if you knew–had concerns about the president’s security? It’s mind-boggling!” Fox anchor John Roberts exclaimed.
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) is challenging the Biden regime’s claim that Trump’s Secret Service detail was increased in recent weeks, telling Fox on Tuesday that agents directly involved with protecting Trump were “frustrated, angry and upset” about the lack of adequate protection for the Republican presidential nominee.
Waltz said they repeatedly asked U.S.S.S. headquarters for more resources for Trump’s detail and were denied.
“And then [DHS Secretary] Mayorkas goes on CNN and says Congressman Waltz is irresponsible and that’s false. Which he is saying essentially his own agents are wrong,” the former Green Beret Commander said, adding: “we will get to the bottom of it.”
House Republicans have launched an investigation into the near assassination of Trump and have asked Secret Service Chief Kimberly Cheatle to testify before the Oversight Committee.
The Federalist’s Sean Davis reported on X Saturday evening that a source familiar with Trump’s security detail told him that the agents had been asking for increased protection and resources for weeks, but had been “rebuffed time and again by Biden’s DHS.”
The source said DHS, which oversees Secret Service protective detail “wasn’t responsive to those requests” for more resources. Davis said.
Senator Mike Lee posted on X Tuesday evening that he was hearing the same thing. “I have it on good authority that Trump’s security detail repeatedly asked Secret Service for more resources to protect Trump over the last two years,” Lee wrote. “Those requests were repeatedly denied.”
“I give nothing but credit for his those in the detail [who] put their lives on the line,” Waltz told Fox News. “I suspect strongly this was a headquarters resources issue, who said we’re not going to get all these agents for all of his rallies. We’re not going to exhaust our budget.”
Waltz also slammed Biden for not firing Cheatle after her monumental failure to protect Trump at his rally Saturday.
“[There was] no accountability for Afghanistan, no accountability for the Defense Secretary disappearing, and no accountability for this,” he said.
Update:
Congress expected to be briefed by the Secret Service Tuesday, but the briefing was cancelled at the last minute, according to House Republicans.
“Mayorkas’s DHS has commandeered their [USSS] communications and refuses to confirm a time,” said Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) on X. “This corrupt administration has stonewalled Republicans’ investigations at every turn. We will not back down.”
And did Mayorkas have anything to do with putting the DEI hire SS agents on the Trump protection detail when this Iranian threat was received?
If the Trump SS Security detail was increased in size after the SS became aware of the Iranian threat, how dang small was it before the increase?
DHS claims that in response to the increased threat, Secret Service protection at Trump’s outdoor rallies was beefed up.
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That was “beefed up”?
“beefed up” means ignore the warnings from observers,
install cowering short, blind?, women who hide under
the Presidents balls and behind stairs prn, and
make certain the shooting-patsy is protected by a tree
and has an empty roof provided with a pasty-ladder,
and install a coverup to wash the roof while hiding
the other shooters working for Bidens, the DOJ and the SS.
More like “beefed down”.
“and has an empty roof provided with a pasty-ladder,”
Did you see the size of that ladder? We’re supposed to believe he lugged that a mile along with a gun case?
Planned. Intentional. Blown. Coverup. What’s new?
Or “soyed up.”
The detail on the 13th did not appear augmented. The professionalism shown also did not appear to be augmented.
I do not believe DHS.
Mayorkas is an even bigger piece of crap than Garland, less astute or capable than Buttigieg, and a more defiant open-mouthed liar than Biden, if that were even possible.
But that statement I make insinuates that the terrible damage they have done to this country has resulted from stupidity and incompetence, and except in the case of Buttigieg, it isn’t.
It is deliberate, though there is stupidity and incompetence mixed right into this administration.
So, if Mayorkas and anyone under him deny something, you can be certain that thing is true.
The DHS has become infiltrated with liars.
👍
Vegetarianed.
If that’s the case and a 20 year old outwitted the world’s best security teams?
Give me a break.
Last night Mike Johnson promised they’d get to the bottom of it, who believes that?
He and others are all urging both sides (as if there’s equivalence) to tone down the rhetoric. Does that make anyone feel less angry?
Two days before the convention, Trump was targeted by a kid on a flat roof (too sloped to post a SS agent, though) and “news” emerged that Iran ordered a hit.
The kid is dead and his e-history is scrubbed clean as a whistle, and so is his house.
Cheatle, like Biden, announced no intention of stepping down.
Yeah, let’s lower the heat. Trust the intrepid investigators in Congress, and the “ongoing investigation” investigators they will invite to appear in Congress.
“We will not back down.”
You’ll find a way.
They picked up the threat weeks ago, but we are hearing about it now only after the failed assassination. Is this their plan B?
The intelligence community is in a high speed cover their ass mode after their Trump failure make anything sound like they are alert and on the job.
True Biden management in action follow the fool rule in operation.
They probably begged for EFFECTIVE agents instead of DIE hires. That’ll get a firm “no” from an affirmative action hire.
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