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.”
So he was POTUS then. I wonder about this year.
And what about the ladder standing next to the building. Who brought it and why didn’t anyone notice it standing there.
The braindead SS Director thinks she is too brilliant by half and keeps volunteering all sorts of crazy notions why security was not posted at a 150 yard line-of-sight roof vantage sniper perch. The stupid woke Director has zero real world knowledge and postulates that a peaked roof made it impossible for a security post to be placed on the roof. Yet, the sniper who shot the perp was positioned on the peak of a slanted roofed building used as the backdrop for the stage where Trump spoke. Then she stupidity digs her hole even deeper by advancing the notion that sitting around inside the subject building used by the shooter as his sniping perch provided satisfactory coverage of the elevated threat outside and right over their heads. If this excuse is true, how is it they did not hear the perp crawling across the roof above them? I can hear birds walking outside on the metal roof of my machine shed when I’m inside the building. Another stupid excuse I heard that she made was the roof wouldn’t support a security detail, yet we see two agents up on the roof with the dead perp. Now the AG has told her to just shut up and the House has issued a subpoena for her testimony, which will be promptly ignored. They don’t want this stupid fool sitting in the House witness chair because she is too woke and too dumb for the Commies to risk that she just might compromise their conspiracy to ‘off’ Trump. Bongino has inside SS contacts and he has promised to keep boring down on this screwed up Commie assassination attempt.
If Alejandro Mayorkas is involved in any way...well knowing what we do about him, I’d say he needs to be investigated a little closer.
The ladder, shooter bought it that morning...................
Has anyone found any info on the trajectory of the round that hit Trump’s ear? That would help in determining where it came from.
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There is a startling picture of a round supposedly caught in midair wizzing by Trump. It’s hard to believe this picture is authentic unless the cameraman just happened to have a special high speed shuttered camera. You can sort of see a vapor trail behind the bullet.
Apparently not anymore.
If so, then i imagine the initial plans may have looked something like this:
Plan A
1. Take out Trump by any non-violent means possible (lawfare, removing him from the ballot, etc).
2. If plan A fails, proceed to Plan B as a last resort.
Plan B
1. Turn up the rhetoric on Trump by comparing him to Hitler and saying that he is a threat to democracy. This will greatly increase the odds of creating would-be assassins and having them show up at events. (This may have been planned or just happened organically).
2. Leave holes in Trump's security perimeter at every turn, such as not properly securing roofs within short range of the stage at rallies.
3. Use DEI to not only surround Trump with as many under-experienced or under-qualified agents as possible, but also agents who are more likely to be anti-Trump (such as transgender liberal types) so that we might be able to use one or more as cohorts.
4. If this plan works there is risk to us, but we can hide behind DEI hiring (we know conservatives will point to this) in order to explain away failures and bad decision-making. We ourselves can feign stupidity if need be (such as, say, pretending that we thought certain types of roofs were too dangerous to station officers on). This hopefully will give us enough cover. People will be highly suspicious of course, but our politicians and our media will be quick to ridicule them as crazy right-wing conspiracy theorists.
DIVINE INTERVENTION... Trump is "Under God's HEDGE of PROTECTION."
Local law enforcement reported the shooter 1/2 hour before the shooting, but nothing happened.
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When I worked for DEA the Administration employed airport details that would roam the airports and confront suspected drug curriers. The agents developed a body reaction profile that they applied in these encounters to assess the contactee’s creds. One way ticket, refusing to make eye contact, nervousness and furtive behavior, sweaty brow, etc., The PA shooter was obviously on LE radar, why didn’t someone make contact with him? - - - unless
One reasonI give Bongino credibility is that he is good at laying out information otherwise unobtainable, and letting one draw his own conclusions. And he is usually clear about where his suspicions lie, by implication, without stating them as facts.
Exactly, perfect.
Well, in this brave new world, that would be called rascist, sexist, homophobic, classist, transphobic etc...... 😉
ON another thread today-—I do NOT remember which one, but earlier than right now......
MOST TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION-—EVER
Trump arrival to ER. Watch video to the end. The reactions of the people in the waiting room is heart warming. The same DEI female S/S agent who couldn't holster her gun at the rally is visible outside.
I am 84 & I can get on my roof with GORILLA GLUE to anchor down errant shingles. FEMALE
“Also, speculation there is another shooter which would account for the hydraulic lift being hit - by a bullet from Crooks”
I saw video of the tractor and the lift holding the speakers behind it. It appears that the tractor was spraying out hydraulic fluid but the speaker column being held up by the lift was almost dropped as well. I’d like to see another video to confirm exactly which one was leaking the fluid. If it was the tractor, then why did the speaker lift have issues? Both hit?
I’ve been thinking that possibly the leak and speaker movement could have been intended as a distraction. Turn all the heads away for the shot.
One thing for sure is that there are a lot of odd things about this. Too many to proclaim it was the work of a lone wolf.
The line we're getting now is that responsibility was shared with the local police due to stretched resources. It's as silly as the roof slope story. When you have such resources assigned, that's one thing, when nobody bothers even to check to verify they're there, that's criminal negligence.
Whether negligence or bad luck or malice or all three, the Secret Service failed utterly to do its job. Cheatle needs to go.
But in Milwaukee, when Trump took his seat at the convention they had to walk up a steep set of stairs.
Too sloped and dangerous?
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