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BAT CAVE, North Carolina — Residents of a tiny North Carolina town that was almost totally destroyed by Hurricane Helene have been fending for themselves after FEMA told them that a “Road Closed” sign is an insurmountable obstacle for the agency to navigate.

BAT CAVE, North Carolina — Residents of a tiny North Carolina town that was almost totally destroyed by Hurricane Helene fending for themselves after FEMA told them that a “road closed” sign is an insurmountable obstacle for the agency to navigate. “FEMA called me and told me they wanted to inspect my house then called me back to say they couldn’t drive around the ‘road closed’ sign. They weren’t allowed,” local Chelsea Atkins, 38, told The Post. “You can drive it by car for sure, it’s not that bad, you just have to drive around the ‘road closed sign’. I...

BREAKING: Butler Trump Rally Secret Service Snipers Finally got over their Fear of Sloped Roofs.

Shocking new video filmed by one of the victims at the Donald Trump rally shooting shows just how close Thomas Crooks was to Trump ... and it's incredible the Secret Service missed him. The footage, obtained by Fox News, shot from the bleachers behind Trump, shows Crooks moving quickly along the roof of the American Glass Research Building, disappearing and then popping back up ... minutes before squeezing off 8 shots. It's the first video showing Crooks and Trump in the same frame ... and this new vantage point illustrates just how close the rooftop was to where Trump was...

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...

Join us as we dive into the fascinating world of the Secret Service’s latest elite division, the “Sloped Roof Rangers.” After a mishap in Butler, Pennsylvania, it became clear that an elite force skilled in navigating slightly sloped rooftops was essential. Watch as these exceptional agents train to ascend rooftops with a gradient of up to 3 percent, tackling a challenge that has long hindered federal operations. Hear from Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle about the unique dangers these surfaces pose and the innovative solution in place. “You’re absolutely right, Kimberly,” one might muse. “Perhaps it is best to leave...

Secret Service chief Kimberly Cheatle was shielded by her own officers after furious US senators pursued her down the corridors of the RNC, demanding she explain how a gunman was able to get a clear shot at Donald Trump. Cheatle was in the Milwaukee convention hall to oversee security arrangements on Wednesday evening - just hours after making a 'cover-your-a** call' to senators about the shooting in Pennsylvania on Saturday night.

Kim Cheatle must resign, or get fired. The near-assassination of former President Donald Trump is the Secret Service’s most stunning failure in decades. That’s the opinion of her boss, Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “When I say that something like this cannot happen, we are speaking of a failure,” he said Monday on CNN; on ABC, it was: “A direct line of sight like that to the former president should not occur.” The total security breakdown at Trump’s Butler, Pa., rally — which came an inch from killing the ex-prez, and did take Corey Comperatore’s life with two other civilians put...

Secret Service agents are trained, I believe, to be expert marksman and this kid was 20 years old. Could it have been the FBI that was trying to shoot Trump? Would that be why orders were not given to return fire? It just occurred to me, so I'm asking the question. While the kid was involved, could he have been more of a patsy?

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Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle noted in a July 15 interview with ABC News that police were in the building from the top of which the would-be assassin fired at Donald Trump. Cheatle told ABC News that the building on which the would-be assassin took his position was supposed to be secured by local law enforcement officers who were working with Secret Service for perimeter control. ABC News reported “local authorities were tasked with securing the building where the alleged shooter fired the shots before being taken out by a Secret Service sniper.” Cheatle also indicated that police were inside...

"See something, say something." After the 9/11 disaster, that phrase served as a terse marching order for alert American citizens willing to help stop terror attacks on U.S. soil. "See something, say something" is superb national security advice. 9/11 demonstrated America is under attack. Every citizen can contribute to the defense effort. On Saturday, July 13, several alert citizens attending a presidential campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, saw a young man lurking near a building adjacent to the fairground where presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump intended to deliver a speech. The young man was later seen on the...

Andrew Riddaugh joins Alex Jones live to exclusively describe how secret service was denied to President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania for his massive rally.

Embattled Secret Service head Kimberly Cheatle has revealed the fateful reason why her agency failed to position an agent on top of the building that a gunman used to carry out an assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Cheatle, who is already facing calls to resign over what some lawmakers are calling a massive security failure, said Secret Service officials planning security for Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania considered the warehouse about 150 yards away from where Trump spoke to be a risky position for stationing an agent. 'That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And...

It was a grey, drizzly Monday on March 30, 1981, when President Reagan emerged from the Washington Hilton hotel, heading back to his presidential limousine parked a few yards away. His inauguration had been only a few weeks before and he'd just finished speaking at a lunch of US labor union leaders. Along with the rest of the White House press corps I was about 20 feet away, roped off from the President. Suddenly, just as one of our number shouted a question for him, shots rang out. In a split second, a burly Secret Service agent brusquely bundled Reagan...