Posted on 07/17/2024 5:54:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino made a stunning revelation about security failures which led to former president Donald Trump coming within inches of being assassinated.
During an appearance on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast “Triggered,” Bongino revealed that the rooftop from which the failed Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks fired shots, was supposed to be covered by law enforcement personnel.
Bongino revealed he was told this by an “unimpeachable source” who was knowledgeable about the situation.
“That post, according to my source, that roof was supposed to be a police post. It was supposed to be someone there,” he said.
“They’re now making up excuses, saying the pitch of the roof… my source says to me, no one knows why the post didn’t show up,” Bongino revealed.
He added that Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle has been instructed by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to “keep her mouth shut if she wants to remain in her post.
Cheatle has refused to resign from her post following the aftermath of the assassination attempt.
The Secret Service identified a high-profile security vulnerability in the building but failed to protect the rooftop.
Moreover, security forces did not take notice of Crooks roughly 30 minutes before the shooting.
One law enforcement asset even managed to snap a photo of the suspect, though he was not confronted.
Cheatle attempted to explain why the rooftop wasn’t covered.
“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,” the Secret Service director said in a statement to ABC News.
“And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside.”
“They’re not putting that out there. But if you get those site post logs and those police instructions and it was a post on there and they didn’t show up and no one checked, someone could have got your dad killed,” Bongino said. “Within millimeters.”
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Bongino said he would be revealing more details on his podcast.
“You’re telling me the best technology you have was deployed and you missed a shooter 130 yards? Say it was 200 yards,” Bongino told Fox News.
The Secret Service CS team, Pete, the counter-sniper team? And I’m not sure those two guys are Secret Service. We have to remember that we don’t always, when we go to New York sometimes with high-level protectees we’ll use NYPD ESU counter-sniper. So I’m not really sure.”
“Either way, they’d still be briefed in. The question we have to ask is, if that’s the best technology we have, and we had a CS team up there with a shooter that, you know, we’re trained out to a thousand yards in the Secret Service with the counter-sniper team. How did they miss someone at most, you know, one-fifth of the way there? It doesn’t make any sense.”
The question we have to ask is, if that’s the best technology we have, and we had a CS team up there with a shooter that, you know, we’re trained out to a thousand yards in the Secret Service with the counter-sniper team. How did they miss someone at most, you know, one-fifth of the way there? It doesn’t make any sense.It makes perfect sense for the counter-sniper team to concentrate on the >500yd approaches, if the plan was that some other team was tasked with securing the nearby building.
Somebody screwed up. Did some in the local sheriff's department not understand what their responsibilities were?
Did the Secret Service assign them the task of securing the building without making it clear that included controlling access to the roof?
Which years are you talking about going to rallies? This year?
The roof that the counter snipers were deployed on was sloped. And from what I’ve seen of the slope on all of those barn roofs (it’s a fairground) is very mild. I call bull**** on everything the SS has said in their statements.
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““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,” the Secret Service director said in a statement to ABC News.”
I’m a 60 year old women/widow. I climb up a ladder to get onto my metal roof...with a steeper slope...at least a dozen times a year to clean out gutters with a leaf blower, or clean the chimney flu. Maybe they should have used 60 year old widowed grannies because they’re not afraid to slip a bit protecting Trump??
I’m 69 and my metal roof is sloped waaay worse than that building. I just repainted it a while back and had no problems...................
It is total bullcrap. Even a Democrat can see that...............
Why do I think the FBI is now busy destroying any and all evidence. They are leaving all the manufactured evidence that will soon come to light that it was the lone gunman radical who acted alone and got lucky. The patsy to take the blame.
I think the shooter was spooked by the cop who saw him and began spraying his shots to get rounds on Trump.
One thing every hunter knows is that head-shots on a deer are risky. The slightest movement by the deer and you miss or worse. I learned my lesson the hard way. Doe only exposed her head, I wait she did not move so I took a risky head-shot. She moved her head slightly, and I blew off her lower jaw. I had to walk out and administer a shot to her brain as she writhed in pain. It was horrible, and I have never attempted that shot since.
Cheatle’s excuse that the building’s roof was too steep to put SS agents on it is patently ridiculous!
It is proof positive that she is either too STUPID, or EVIL, to be in charge of the Secret Service.
…no big equipment blocking fields of fire, no plexiglass protection…
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yup, like a motorcade with the president in the backseat of an open convertible.
IOW...what the hell were they thinking
That must mean we are better qualified for USSS than the dolts Cheatle hired to protect Trump.
There are reports now circulating that certain people had heavily invested in DJT$ short positions in the week before the shooting. In other words, betting that the stock price would precipitously drop, once DJT was killed.
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libs are evil but they can’t be stupid enough to use knowledge of a future assassination to make a buck. I mean, could they?
I dont see why not. They’ve done much worse.
1) there's a lot of room between "not good enough for the rifle team" and "is a terrible shot".
2) The target was 130 yards away. NOT a difficult shot.
who knows what he is working on when the mic/camera is off.
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She is a prime example of how the DEI system operates it doesn’t many get hurt or die it’s the quota that counts it draws votes from the illogical and unteachable.
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