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Secret Service Not Using Drones to Monitor Trump Rally Under Scrutiny
Newsweek ^ | 7/18/24 | Kahleda Rahman

Posted on 07/18/2024 6:25:42 PM PDT by hardspunned

Questions have been raised about why drones were not deployed on the day a gunman shot at former President Donald Trump.

On July 13, a gunman, identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, opened fire from a rooftop near where Trump was speaking at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. He killed one rallygoer and seriously wounded two others before being shot dead by the Secret Service.

Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, sustained an injury to his right ear, and made a triumphant appearance at the Republican National Convention days later with a bandage over his wound.

Since the shooting, multiple investigations have been launched—into the crime and how a shooter was able to get so close to the former president. There have been questions about missteps by the Secret Service and growing calls for the agency's director, Kimberly Cheatle, to resign after the attempt on Trump's life. She has said she will not.

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The new Secret Service motto: “See something. Say nothing.”


21 posted on 07/18/2024 7:56:53 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray : Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: gibsonguy

I don’t know, but I saw a video posted of
Spectators yelling, hey, there’s a guy on the roof with a gun…
As shots are fired, you can see a small drone buzz right over the shooter.
Well it looked legit to me.


22 posted on 07/18/2024 8:03:59 PM PDT by midwest_hiker
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To: midwest_hiker

That makes it worse actually.


23 posted on 07/18/2024 8:05:33 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: AnthonySoprano

It’s the new S/S motto: “See something. Say nothing.”


24 posted on 07/18/2024 8:14:24 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray : Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: God luvs America

Drones are incredibly cheap. Why was not all surveilled with drones? The close areas should have had agents on the buildings especially the one most close to Trump of which the assassin tried to kill him. What happened is total incompetence or it was worse I pray it wasn’t something worse.


25 posted on 07/18/2024 8:22:42 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: gibsonguy

exactly

there is a manifest of event security proceedures

walk the list line by line and highlight the incomplete tasks, identify the owner and add them to the list of co-conspirators

its the only way


26 posted on 07/18/2024 8:29:13 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: AnthonySoprano

As always, we cannot listen to what “they say”, only observe their actions.

This was a setup for an execution, Lee Harvey Oswald style. In fact, the parallels are amazing.

Has alphabet written all over it.

As to what “they say” - after all this gaslighting, nobody can smoke around me. I am afraid I would spontaneously combust.


27 posted on 07/18/2024 8:48:09 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: hardspunned

The Secret Service let Liberty Valance get shot too? Unbelievable.


28 posted on 07/18/2024 8:52:28 PM PDT by BipolarBob (First I was called a big fat lair and then showed a certain Lake of Respect.)
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To: BipolarBob

You’ve never seen the movie or just a little slow?


29 posted on 07/18/2024 8:59:53 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: cpdiii

Drones with long loiter times are less cheap, but still available, especially ones with wings. If they put up several, then operators become an issue, however they can also be pre-programmed like those light shows, or a simple orbit around a spot at an altitude.


30 posted on 07/18/2024 9:54:02 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: hardspunned

bookmark


31 posted on 07/18/2024 10:40:56 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: hardspunned

Is great clip


32 posted on 07/18/2024 11:21:23 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: hardspunned

It’s called dry humor. It doesn’t translate well over the internet. yes, I’ve seen the movie, I get TCM.


33 posted on 07/19/2024 4:49:11 AM PDT by BipolarBob (First I was called a big fat lair and then showed a certain Lake of Respect.)
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To: New Perspective

Scrutiny and questions. Merely words. No action.


34 posted on 07/19/2024 6:16:09 AM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill

I agree, talk talk talk.


35 posted on 07/19/2024 6:48:56 AM PDT by New Perspective (As Leonard Cohen said once in an interview, “You won’t like what comes after America”)
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To: Vendome

There are blurry vids on TikTok that show, at the time of the shooting, a dark figure appear from behind the thing at the top of the dome.


36 posted on 07/19/2024 11:57:53 AM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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