Social media users reached out to X on Saturday after former President Trump survived an assassination attempt at an outdoor rally in rural Pennsylvania. The consensus is that this was the result of a massive Secret Service failure. Some, like The Federalist's Sean Davis, report that the Biden administration has been hurting Trump's Secret Service detail by not giving it the resources it needs to keep the former president safe. Others postulate that something much more sinister is going on. Here's a rundown of reports and speculation about the incident that rocked the nation.
BREAKING: A source familiar with Trump's security detail tells @FDRLST that the former and future president's detail has been asking for enhanced protection and resources for weeks, but has been turned down time and time again by Biden's DHS.
DHS, which oversees the Secret Service's protective details, “did not respond to these requests” for more resources, the source said.
Was the Biden regime behind the attack or did it deliberately do everything it could to allow it to happen?
Development…
Dan Bongino seconded Sean's report.
I want to repeat, and I can absolutely confirm, USSS Director Kim Cheatle has repeatedly rejected requests for a larger security footprint around President Trump. Despite knowing that the threat level is catastrophic.
Resign tonight. https://t.co/v3UQyTt1dK— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) July 14, 2024
This is what Ms. Cheatle has been prioritizing since she became director of the Secret Service.
CBS News Report reveals what Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has been focusing on: diversity hiring pic.twitter.com/IoKnY4uj6M
— Matt Batzel (@MattBatzel) July 14, 2024
Bongino too had this to say:
Actively communicating with several former Secret Service colleagues about the assassination attempt.
This is an obviously catastrophic failure and should NOT be excused, or even attempted.
The failures are profound and questions need to be answered about ground surveillance, air surveillance, post-support and forward work and anti-sniper response.
We have ONE job and today we came inches from a fatal failure. A failure without incident is NOT a success.
This is what James O'Keefe had to say:
IN DEVELOPMENT… Shooter found dead on rooftop with vantage point on stage.
Secret Service tasks counter assault teams to cover ALL vantage points – rooftops being the most obvious.
Counterattack teams are outsourced professionals. Even the “B” team tasked with covering Trump is unlikely to make such mistakes.
Blatant error or intentional omission. Confirmed with the former organizer and coach of the CA team.
While massive mistakes are possible, it's more likely to be intentionally plausible forgetting the roof with the CA team assignments given by SS. Who makes them possible? Deep State Intel Community?
Sign in bio… @OKeefeMedia
Meanwhile, an eyewitness tried to get the police's attention and couldn't believe what he was seeing:
EYE WITNESS TALK AFTER TRUMP SHOT
The shooter was a bear crawling on a roof, outside the premises, with a rifle in his hands. The eyewitness and his friends were yelling at the police and the Secret Service for 2-3 minutes.
Nobody did anything.pic.twitter.com/MaQB0OjoEj
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePress) July 14, 2024
James O'Keefe reports Bosses are currently rolling in the Secret Service:
Bosses are currently rolling in the US Secret Service. Incoming DHS internal investigative teams intend to investigate USSS…
DEVELOPMENT…
If these reports are true, it looks like Elon Musk would approve.
Extreme incompetence or was it deliberate. Either way, the SS leadership must resign. https://t.co/0vYGrj6yuH
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 14, 2024
Elon was particularly outraged by the apparent security lapse.
exactly https://t.co/9dxmQbHFQb
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 14, 2024
Here's one more post for good measure.
The head of the Secret Service and the leader of this security detail should resign https://t.co/ihlEC5NP1w
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 14, 2024
Here is a satellite image of the situation that shows you how bad the security failure was.
The shooter was about 150 yards from Trump on a rooftop with a direct line of sight to the stage.
It defies every safety protocol ever written that this roof was not secured and that law enforcement personnel were not up there. pic.twitter.com/a1WfwMRZPA
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) July 14, 2024
Even CNN's very pretty wife questioned the failure of the Secret Service.
The FBI special agent acknowledges that “it's amazing” that the shooter was able to fire multiple rounds. Again, the Secret Service can't answer any questions because they're not at this press conference right now. Which is pretty impressive.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) July 14, 2024
If you recall, low-IQ Bennie Thompson has essentially been plotting to have President Trump assassinated through the legislative process by introducing a bill to strip the former president of Secret Service protection.
Reminder: Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson, chairman of the J6 committee, wrote a bill to strip Donald Trump of Secret Service protection if convicted of a crime. In April
Totally embarrassing. pic.twitter.com/4ZnkZ0FTwo
— Max Meyer (@mualphaxi) July 14, 2024
Here's a close-up of Bennie's low-IQ press release:
And here's what Bennie's low-IQ field manager had to say about the assassination attempt: according to a report:
A field director for Congressman @BennieGThompson (who chaired the Jan. 6 Commission and recently proposed legislation to eliminate Trump's Secret Service detail), wishing Trump's assassin had better social media aim.
Justifying the assassination attempt.
Paper with Congressman Thompson.
These posts have been removed from Ms. Marsaw's Facebook account.
Rep. Bennie Thompson has come to the attention of Revolver News previously in his role as chairman of the Jan. 6 Committee and chairman of the Homeland Security Committee from 2007 to 2011 and from 2019 to 2023. If you recall, the Department of National Security oversees the United States Secret Service.
Meet President Bennie Thompson
Much of MAGA's dislike of the January 6 Commission has been trained on January 6 Commission Vice Chair Liz Cheney. And for good reason. Revolver has long argued that Liz Cheney is a driving force of the GOP's strike against the America First movement.
But the spotlight on Cheney has left the current chairman of the commission in the dark: Representative Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi). And it is from Thompson that we may be able to deduce the roadmap for the coming months.
One option is for Chairman Thompson to do nothing but pay lip service to the concerns of reporters like Seth Abramson and Alan Feuer that the Commission has abandoned any grand narrative of collusion involving Trump and his inner circle. If there is no evidence of collusion with Trump and his inner circle, Thompson could revise his strange neglect of Rhodes and focus on militia group leaders as a consolation prize. A serious investigation into Rhodes, however, risks blowing the entire government and media narrative out of the water. In fact, it would risk turning the great 1/6 insurrection into another orchestrated Fed job like the recent “Michigan Kidnapping Plot” in which 12 of the 18 “conspirators” were revealed to be Feds and/ or informants
The most likely course, then, is for the Commission to pay lip service to the fevered conspiracy that Trump's inner circle colluded to ransack the Capitol, and Rhodes will remain an intact third lane. A brief review of Thompson's history and biography suggests that this maximally compatible approach will be the case.
Thompson is a key component in the DNC establishment's merger with the national security state after 9/11, using the bogus “domestic terrorism” pretext. As an untouchable holder in Mississippi with 28 years in CongressThompson was the chairman of the National Security Committee from 2007 to 2011 and has been serving again since 2019.
Essentially, whenever Democrats hold a majority in the House, Thompson is positioned as the ax man to control oversight of the Department of Homeland Security.
Bennie Thompson scratches the back of an ever-expanding US national security state. In turn, Thompson is rewarded with plush committee chairman roles and an expanding DHS lawn of its own.
Indeed, Thompson was attacked act as permanent president of the 2020 Democratic National Convention. In the 2020 election, Thompson presided over all official business at the convention that made Joe Biden the Democratic nominee for president.
Ironically, in 2004, Thompson was one of 31 House Democrats who voted to overturn the Bush-Gore election results. But today, the big agency of the Department of Homeland Security is informing you. And that agency is now calling out anyone who alleges fraud in the 2020 election.”Potential terrorist threats.”
Do you see how it works? When Bennie Thompson does it, it's democracy. When you do that, it's terrorism[.]
Read the rest here:
Commission's Jan. 6 decision to ignore Stewart Rhodes oath just unmasked its entire investigation
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Meanwhile, Rep. Mike Waltz of Florida alleges that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas himself has repeatedly denied heightened security for President Trump.
“I have very reliable sources who tell me there have been repeated requests for stronger Secret Service protection for President Trump. Denied by Secretary Mayorkas,” Waltz wrote to X.
The House Homeland Security Committee plans to investigate reports that Trump was denied stronger Secret Service protection ahead of the rally, a source told Fox News Digital.
“The Committee has also seen these reports and will conduct a thorough review of what happened both before and after the assassination attempt on President Trump. Obviously, these reports are deeply troubling and demand investigation,” the source said.
One thing is certain in the wake of this near-tragedy: The American people need answers, and they need them now.