They should have immediately called Trump and the team by him on their earpieces and had him moved behind cover until they secured the armed man on the rooftop. That's the sort of scenario they're supposed to train for constantly and not have to think about. Now everyone knows he's being guarded by the summer interns.
I guess that's the end of open-air Trump rallies. They don't have a $10m budget at taxpayer expense to secure the site a mile out each time like the sitting president gets. They never had any security, and now everybody knows. Much easier to secure the inside of a building.
I want to repeat, and can absolutely confirm, the USSS Director Kim Cheatle has repeatedly turned down requests for a larger security footprint around President Trump. Despite knowing the threat level is catastrophic. Resign tonight. [t.co] https://t.co/v3UQyTt1dK
Like the fox guy said, always treat every event as the day it could happen. At least that should be the mindset but the secret service just think its another day as usual. Thats negligence isnt it. Maybe Musk is right. If the chief of the secret service is at fault or not does not matter. He should step down anyway and take responsibility. Then they have to go over the whole routine and come up with something better. A better security routine. Then again its impossible to be 100% secure. Maybe indoors is the only option now. If so thats a sad step back.
People on twitter are suggesting the SS allowed it to happen, and then Trump staged the assassination with the SS, and that the democrats staged it, and etc. Some astrology shitters are citing some twitter post someone made 180 days ago saying trump was going to have an assassination attempt some time.
It's pretty sus how the SS and even police did nothing despite all the videos of people warning them about the shooter and them not doing anything about it. I mean, if it was an inside job there are a LOT of people who are in on it.
Its funny how many people are deleting their news articles, posts and accounts because they were reminded that Alex Jones was sued for near a billion for his statements in the past.
Is it appropriate to beg the question here? I'm curious- if the shooter was successful, would that have caused a power vacuum in the Republican party, or would they find another person to rally behind? I can't quite figure out which one it would be, as both seem very plausible.
Is it appropriate to beg the question here? I'm curious- if the shooter was successful, would that have caused a power vacuum in the Republican party, or would they find another person to rally behind? I can't quite figure out which one it would be, as both seem very plausible.
Ron Desantis or Mike Pence were supported by the establishment party. Though it seemed like they were setting DeSantis to lose against whoever the Dems fielded.
Vivek Ramaswamy would have been the most similar to Trump but the establishment party treated him like RFK jr.
How did the secret service not have that roof locked down?
Probably accidentally on purpose. Nothing would surprise me at this point. And lookie, all the attention has been taken off Biden.
I was watching the rally and saw it happen in real-time. Trump hadn't been speaking very long and then there were the rapid popping sounds and everything happened so fast. At first I thought Trump grabbed the side of his neck before he went down. I stood up, experienced a panic attack, and thought please don't tell me those were gunshots and please don't tell me he's dead. Thank God he's OK but that really made me feel numb and depressed because this is what our country has come to. If he hadn't turned his head back toward the Jumbotron in that one second it would've been a different outcome. His quick alley cat reflexes saved him after he felt the bullet hit his ear and dropped to the floor.
0:25 "My name is Thomas Matthew Crooks. I hate Republicans, I hate Trump, and guess what? You got the wrong guy."
They thought Crooks was Chinese at first after he was shot because he looks like a mongoloid retard. He's supposedly associated with Antifa. [www.caclubindia.com] https://www.caclubindia.com/assets/thomas-crooks/
This post has been edited by Honeycat: Jul 16 2024, 00:00