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Ex-Secret Service Agent Goes Scorched Earth on Agency Over Trump Assassination Attempt
Town Hall ^ | 18 July 2024 | Sarah Arnold

Posted on 07/19/2024 3:18:09 AM PDT by Rummyfan

The Secret Service is facing mounting pressure to explain how a 20-year-old would-be assassin climbed on top of a roof and fired shots at former President Donald Trump without authorities noticing.

Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino is demanding answers from the agency, revealing troubling details about the breach of security that left Trump injured.

Bongino, who spent 12 years working in the Secret Service under President George W. Bush and President Obama, pointed out obvious mistakes that could have changed the trajectory of the country forever.

He pointed to three issues plaguing the Secret Service that resulted in a would-be assassination of one of the most high-profile public figures in the country.

One, Bongino wrote in an op-ed, is the lack of manpower and security equipment.

(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: assassinationattempt; bongino; secretservice; trump; trumpshooting
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1 posted on 07/19/2024 3:18:09 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Congressman Waltz yesterday said that they were told in the hearing that the killer had THREE FOREIGN ENCRIPTED ACCOUNTS!!!! WTH does that mean???


2 posted on 07/19/2024 3:22:03 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

Congressman Waltz yesterday said that they were told in the hearing that the killer had THREE FOREIGN ENCRIPTED ACCOUNTS!!!! WTH does that mean???
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My first thought is they are trying to shift the blame in the direction of a Russia, Russia, Russia foreign angle when they are the true subverters.


3 posted on 07/19/2024 3:31:58 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: Rummyfan

They’re government employees.


4 posted on 07/19/2024 3:32:50 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: Rummyfan

They’re government employees.


5 posted on 07/19/2024 3:32:51 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: Ann Archy

Could those foreign accounts be email accounts?


6 posted on 07/19/2024 3:36:16 AM PDT by Loud Mime (Liberalism is a Socialist Disease. )
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To: Loud Mime

Or game accounts


7 posted on 07/19/2024 3:39:31 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Rummyfan

Amarican snipers are subject
to far more adverse
conditions than what
a sloped roof offers.
This excuse falls blantly
on it’s face. What a
load of liberal hogwash.


8 posted on 07/19/2024 3:44:03 AM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: Rummyfan

I heard some jackass here on FR call Bongino a liar and a clown earlier this week.

As if we should listen to the opinion of some fat-assed keyboard warrior over someone who actually supervised and DID that job for over four years by his account.

Makes me shake my head.


9 posted on 07/19/2024 3:47:40 AM PDT by rlmorel (J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
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To: Ann Archy

THREE FOREIGN ENCRIPTED ACCOUNTS???

Let me guess, SS is trying to resurrect RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA


10 posted on 07/19/2024 3:48:21 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Loud Mime
Could those foreign accounts be email accounts?

How would that matter?

11 posted on 07/19/2024 3:49:13 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: Daveinyork
"They’re government employees."

Of the CIA-type.

12 posted on 07/19/2024 3:59:58 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Ann Archy

I saw that comment and said to my family the media will bury that news, especially if they are encrypted servers in Ukraine. It was the plot of a movie a few years ago.


13 posted on 07/19/2024 4:03:28 AM PDT by DocRock
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To: Ann Archy

It means that the FBI wants us to believe that Crooks had handlers from Russia or Iran.

My bet is that the heanglers were ex cia contractors operating under Brennan , Clapper and the Obama wet works team.This is the same dirty bunch who have been trying to destroy Trump and his family from Operation Crossfire Hurricane onward, This cadre is alive and well, 150 of them signed a letter that HUnters laptop was “Russian DIsinformation”

We have espionage happening from within our own nation.

Cheatle is either a patsy by design, a sock puppet like Biden, or she is in on it.Chairman Obama is behind it all.


14 posted on 07/19/2024 4:17:39 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Rummyfan; Ann Archy; Daveinyork; rlmorel; Psalm 73; Candor7; metmom
Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino is demanding answers from the agency,
revealing troubling details about the breach of security that left Trump injured."

Dan Bongino is correct in his assessment and criticism of the Secret Service protection of any Presidential candidate, specifically in Butler Penna. shooting incident.
You can't just bring in a DHS employee, hand them a gun, have them look assertive in a suit and sunglasses and have them react to a 'shots fired' scenario
It takes arduous training over a period of time to train to deny your basic and natural instincts to go to 'duck and cover' for self-preservation,
versus the trained need to cover and protect the asset.
It's not about "looks" and DEI, which are all superficial characteristics,
it's about training to overcome your natural instincts and commitment to protect the 'asset', even at your own personal cost.

It takes training to know how to act and react
It takes training to know how to crowd control before and after an incident.
It requires instinct and anticipation if something goes wrong, and ready to react at a millisecond notice, with knee-jerk reaction, like flipping a switch.
It requires muscle memory as to know, without looking, where your equipment is located, as well as having it handy and available,
especially if your represent the inner circle of multiple circles of security protection.
It requires experience in getting and whisking the asset out of harms way as soon as possible during chaos.
It requires a mind-set of a willingness to self-sacrifice your own personal safety in order to protect the asset.

Of the three female agents, only one got her priorities in order after 8- 10 seconds,
the two others were nothing short of a Vegas floor show.
That was all about DEI in the DHS/Secret Service in a nut shell - it's all about the "looks", ..and not the effectiveness.

15 posted on 07/19/2024 4:27:12 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Ann Archy
the killer had THREE FOREIGN ENCRYPTED ACCOUNTS!!!!

that’s the Deep State talking point….

16 posted on 07/19/2024 4:35:11 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: Rummyfan
How can someone say, with a straight face, that the building used by the assassin was too sloped to place an agent on.

1. The assassin had no trouble accessing it.

2. The sniper team behind Trump was on an even more sloped roof.

3. All of this is so easily viewable on the internet. She is so easily proved wrong!

17 posted on 07/19/2024 4:43:40 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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For that statement alone she should be fired because it (1) shows she is as dumb as a box of rocks and (2) totally unqualified for any leadership position. Further she is 100% politically tone deaf.


18 posted on 07/19/2024 4:55:01 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Ann Archy

It strongly suggests he was being paid by those that do not want to be identified.

If he were indeed a hired assassin by some conspiracy group, he never would have gotten paid for that group knew he would be taken out by the SS, thus they could remain autonomous for forever.

The whole thing wreaks of JFK 2.0.

It boils down to one of two things, absolute mindless incompetence by all parties or a planned assassination by the dems.


19 posted on 07/19/2024 4:56:56 AM PDT by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not matter how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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To: Ann Archy; Rummyfan
THREE FOREIGN ENCRIPTED ACCOUNTS!!!! WTH does that mean???

Anyone who cares about keeping their private affairs private have their email on a foreign email server.

I recommend Protonmail based in Switzerland which will not submit to FBI subpoena.

20 posted on 07/19/2024 5:00:02 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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