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Knife-Wielding Veteran Sniper Rushes White House, Wants To Warn Obama "Atmosphere Is Collapsing" Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/21/2014 Of the stories in the past two days, there is hardly anything more bizarre than that of Omar J. Gonzalez, 42, of Copperas Cove, a veteran had served three tours in Iraq — and relatives said served as a sniper — managed to jump over the White House fence, sprinted more than 70 yards across the Northern Lawn, got to the front double doors of the North Portico, turned the brass knob and stepped inside the vestibule. "There he was grabbed...

How involved were Secret Service staff with a Democratic congressman’s office to strip former President Donald Trump of his Secret Service detail, if at all? How involved were Secret Service staff with a Democratic congressman’s office to strip former President Donald Trump of his Secret Service detail, if at all? A U.S. Army veteran judge advocate and director of a nonprofit organization wants to know. James Fitzpatrick, director of the Center to Advance Security in America, filed Freedom of Information requests with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security inquiring about Department of Homeland Security Legislative Affairs’ and Secret Service’s staff...

A whistleblower is claiming that the lead Secret Service agent in charge of Donald Trump's deadly Butler, Pennsylvania, rally was 'inexperienced' and 'failed to implement appropriate security protocols.' The complaint comes weeks after 20-year-old murderer Thomas Matthew Crooks shot Trump from a 'perfect location' in relatively close range to the former president as he spoke at the July 13 campaign rally. Crooks hit Trump, injuring him and two others, along with fatally wounding firefighter Corey Comperatore.

Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri appeared on the Jesse Watters show on FOX News on Monday night and shared explosive new details about the failures of the Secret Service during the attempted assassination of Trump in Butler, PA in July. Hawley said that all of this information came to him from whistleblowers within the Secret Service. He notes that these people came forward because they are terrified that this is going to happen again, since these issues have not been resolved and no one has been fired. From the Vigilant Fox on Twitter/X: Secret Service Whistleblowers Describe Butler Trump Rally...

Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and others in top agency leadership positions wanted to destroy the cocaine discovered in the White House last summer, but the Secret Service Forensics Services Division and the Uniformed Division stood firm and rejected the push to dispose of the evidence, according to three sources in the Secret Service community. Multiple heated confrontations and disagreements over how best to handle the cocaine ensued after a Secret Services Uniformed Division officer found the bag on July 2, 2023, a quiet Sunday while President Biden and his family were at Camp David in Maryland, the sources...

It was revealed that the day former President Donald Trump narrowly escaped an assassination attempt was also the first time Secret Service counter snipers were deployed to protect him during the 2024 campaign. The U.S. Secret Service held a critical news briefing on Friday to address its “colossal security failure” at the Butler, Pennsylvania Trump rally, in light of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. “Can you confirm that this was the first 2024 campaign event that counter-sniper teams were assigned to the former president?” CBS News reporter asked Rowe. “As part of their advance, they identify those...

A new poll out Thursday found an overwhelming majority of Americans say the Secret Service bears some responsibility for the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump last month. According to the Associated Press survey, 7 in 10 Americans believe “the Secret Service bears at least a moderate amount of responsibility for the assassination attempt” with 4 in 10 believing the agency “bears a high level of responsibility.”

A copy of DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari’s report about the Secret Service’s security failures related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill uprising has been leaked—and it’s reportedly extremely damning. ABC News, the Washington Post and other mainstream said they obtained the report, which had been suppressed by leadership at the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Secret Service.According to those mainstream news outlets, the report shows that then Vice President-elect Kamala Harris ended up within feet of a “viable” pipe bomb that had been planted the night before in the bushes right outside the Democratic National Committee’s...

Nearly three weeks ago President Trump was shot in the ear and nearly assassinated at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Since that time the Secret Service and FBI have refused to be straight with the American people on what was really going on that day. We still don’t know why the Secret Service and FBI allowed a young would-be assassin to fire off eight shots at President Trump before he was taken out. What is especially troubling is that the security at the rally identified Crooks 90 minutes before the shooting started and acting strange and Crooks was also spotted...

In this Donald Trump shooting analysis, Jeff OStroff shows you a dashcam video of the suspected Trump shooter entering the AGR property before the Trump Rally. The analysis also discusses the possible 3rd shooter, believed to be a Beaver County police SWAT member, whose shot may have distracted the Trump shooter long enough for the Secret Service Hercules 1 sniper team to take their shot and kill the shooter.

In testimony on the July 13 attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a political rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe told the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, "what I saw made me ashamed. As a career law enforcement officer, and a twenty-five-year veteran with the Secret Service, I cannot defend the cascade of security failures that occurred. I accept full responsibility." Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo) said "I have heard from a whistleblower that you personally cut the security resources available to cover the Butler rally and have retaliated against agents...

The failure of the Secret Service to pre-empt the assassination attempt on former President Trump on July 13 has left me with only one conclusion - we should dissolve the Secret Service into it's two components. If the attempted assassination was a Deep State conspiracy, by having Secret Service protection gradually stripped away so Mr. Crooks could have a clear shot, it will be practically impossible to find the fingerprints. So I want to concentrate on the structural things we can do something about. First of all, the Secret Service has never been either adequately funded, and from that adequately...

The chief of the Secret Service said at a press briefing Friday that agents on the ground in Butler, Penn. did not know Thomas Crooks had a weapon until he fired his first shot at former President Donald Trump from the roof of a nearby building on July 13. Acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr. said the agency took "full responsibility" for the law enforcement failings that day, when one of the bullets fired by Crooks grazed Trump's ear and nearly took his life. Corey Comperatore, a former volunteer fire chief from Pennsylvania, was killed in the gunfire. Also injured in...

Revolver News has for several years been at the forefront of exposing the RNC and DNC pipe bomb hoax as one of the key smoking guns of the January 6 insurrection. Recent events have elevated the significance of our reporting to still loftier heights, as a result of national attention on the Secret Service in the aftermath of the Butler, PA assassination attempt on Donald Trump, and increased attention on Kamala Harris in light of her becoming the presumptive Democrat nominee for President. As our reporting has highlighted in damning and multifaceted detail, both Kamala Harris and the Secret Service...

The tap dancing, lies, and coverup of the Trump assassination attempt by the Secret Service, FBI, and now the mainstream media is so far beyond bureaucratic ass-covering that it's hard to conclude that the events in Butler were not desired. I still maintain that it is unlikely in the extreme that anybody inside the government recruited Crooks to take his shots at Trump because it seems so implausible that any sane person would recruit an untrained kid to do the deed, but it is now clear to me that the top levels of the Secret Service and Homeland Security wanted...

A whistleblower alleged that Secret Service acting Director Ronald Rowe personally cut security resources and “retaliated” against agents with security concerns leading up to former President Donald Trump’s rally on July 13, according to a letter released Thursday. The whistleblower alleged that Rowe personally implemented “significant cuts” to the Counter Surveillance Division (CSD), which does advanced threat assessments for venues, and alleged that agents who expressed security concerns were “retaliated against,” according to Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley’s letter to Rowe. As a result, the CSD failed to perform its “typical evaluation” of the rally venue in Butler County, Pennsylvania,...

John Cullen joins Dr. Jason Dean to discuss his latest findings regarding the Trump assassination attempt. This is a fast moving story as Cullen and his crew are uncovering new audio and video evidence almost daily. The biggest bombshell is a new video capture of a sub-sonic projectile whizzing past Trump that occurrs before the first audible shots were even taken. Trump continues talking, unaware that he's just been shot at and avoided being hit by a distance of inches.

Pat Young, the chief of detectives for Beaver County, slammed Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe’s comments in a Senate hearing over the lack of communication on the day of former President Donald Trump’s rally. The rally where Thomas Matthew Crooks shot Trump, killed Corey Comperatore, and injured James Copenhaver and David Dutch. Every time local law enforcement releases new information, it shows no communication from the Secret Service (USSS), and the agency quickly denies it and pushes back. instance, Pennsylvania SWAT said the USSS never held a briefing with them or others before the rally. The members never spoke...

the top Secret Service official who blew the security at the Trump Butler rally is still calling the shots and approving advance teams at Trump rallies. The female agent is still calling the shots at the Trump rallies despite failing in her one job – to keep the President safe and secure in public. It appears that there is no accountability in the US government today. You can even fail a security detail and get the former president shot in the head and keep your job. And we still do not know her name or the names of the other...

A viral video that one of the attendees of former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, filmed shows an individual running across a roof — the same roof Thomas Matthew Crooks shot Trump from — minutes before the tragedy, which claimed the life of one attendee and injured three others, including Trump. Fox News first obtained the video — which James Copenhaver, one of the victims injured at the July 13 rally, filmed. In the video, an individual can be seen scurrying across the roof where Crooks later took the shots. According to Fox News, the video was taken...