It Gets Worse: Secret Service Warned of Armed Gunman Ten Minutes Before Trump Walked on Stage

And they didn't delay him from going on.

Before getting to all of that: Biden just tested positive for Covid. He canceled a Las Vegas fundraiser appearance.

I wonder if it's the usual covid, or the special "CIA Covid."

So here's what's going on right now: Democrats are praying that the covid kills him, while we nice Republicans are down on our knees begging for God to spare him.

"Dear God, we cannot do without this man... he stutters..."

On to the newest, worst news about the Secret Shame.

Aishah Hasnie @aishahhasnie

Source familiar with Secret Service briefing w/Senators tells me a timeline shared with them reveals SS was aware of a threat about 10 minutes before TRUMP walked on stage and still let him on stage.

Fox News video of a report about the ten minute (unheeded) warning.

Collin Rugg @CollinRugg

NEW: Two police officers phoned into a "blanket tactical channel" to alert that an armed individual was on the roof moments before Trump was shot at the PA rally.

The million-dollar question: Why didn't Secret Service rush to protect Trump in this moment?

Butler town manager Tom Knights says that the local police officer who "interrupted" Thomas Crooks was hanging from the roof after being lifted up by an officer.

Crooks then pointed his rifle at the officer which then forced him to fall.

The officer who fell and the officer who was holding him, radioed into a "blanket tactical channel" to notify that an armed individual was on the roof.

Knights said there has been no direct communication with members of the Secret Service to Butler officials.

It's unclear how much time was between Crooks pointing his rifle at the officer and when the first shot rang out.

Chris Loesch @ChrisLoesch

Not only did the police and Secret Service identify the shooter as suspicious hours before the shooting...

Not only were they alerted to him being on the roof of the building where the authorities were organizing protection...

Not only did a police officer engage him on the roof and run away moments before he shot...

Not only did the sniper have him in glass for minutes before he shot at the president...

The shooter's parents warned the police something was up with him hours before the shooting!

HOW MANY LEVELS OF FAIL ARE WE AT NOW? WHEN HAS THIS LEVEL OF INCOMPETENCE EVER SURROUNDED A SINGLE INCIDENT? HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT A 20 YEAR OLD GOOBER WAS ABLE TO PULL ALL THIS OFF ON A FORMER PRESIDENT?

Another primal scream over either the gross incompetence or willful negligence of the Secret Service For Gurlz (TM).

Gunther Eagleman @GuntherEagleman

This whole ordeal is getting weirder by the minute. Some new details have emerged. Read through this and you'll see that there are many factors that can't be excused. The truth has to come out...

-Crooks is caught on video beforehand scoping out the rooftops and vantage points.

-He was observed with a rangefinder standing next to the building prior to the attempt.

-The law enforcement observed Crooks for 30 minutes prior to the attempted assass*nation.

-There were agents/officers stationed inside of the same building he was perched on.

-They now say the roof was too sloped and posed a danger to the agents.

-Ample number of people in the crowd brought attention to Crooks presence.

-The Secret Service detail was cut down because of Jill Biden deciding to go to an event which pulled agents away from Trump's detail.

-They didn't station CS on that roof because it was sloped, although other units were seen on sloped roofs.

-They couldn't access his phone right away, but nobody knows why.

-He had equipment with him that could've remotely triggered an explosion.

-His parents had reported him missing just a few hours prior to the event.

-There were women in the detail that couldn't even holster their own weapon.

-Agents were seen ducking after the attempt on Trump's life was made.

-They didn't remove Trump when the threat was first detected.

-An officer that climbed a ladder to approach Crooks backed down.

People that are trying to focus on the guy's political affiliation are not serious people. The people that are saying "oh he was just grazed" have no right to be in the conversation.

There are two possible scenarios. Either gross incompetence or willful negligence. Either way swift and stern accountability needs to be handed out.

And yet it gets still worse. The Washington Post reports that the Secret Service knew the building which would become the sniper's roost was unprotected.

And they let Trump take the stage anyway.

[T]he Secret Service failed to do even a minimally competent job. The Washington Post reports that the agency had been informed that local law enforcement did not have sufficient resources to secure the building from which the shooter took his murderous shots. Yet, nothing was done to ensure that the most obvious vantage point from which to assassinate Trump was secured.

We aren't talking about a sniper's nest 950 yards from the site. I am told that for a competent marksman, this was a "chip shot."

Local police alerted the Secret Service before former president Donald Trump's rally Saturday that they lacked the resources to station a patrol car outside a key building where a gunman later positioned himself and shot at Trump, according to local and federal law enforcement.

Richard Goldinger, the district attorney in Butler County, Pa., where the Trump rally took place, said the Secret Service "was informed that the local police department did not have manpower to assist with securing that building."

Goldinger's account was confirmed by a Secret Service official briefed on the incident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid about a sensitive, ongoing investigation.

The Secret Service official confirmed that positioning an officer outside the building was considered one of the ways to protect against the risk that the agency prepares for at all public events -- that a shooter on high ground has a clear line of sight on the president or other senior officials being protected. The building, owned by Agr International, was just outside the security perimeter for Saturday's rally.

Unbelievable. They knew the site was unsecured and left it that way--even with all the warnings that a suspicious figure with a rangefinder was walking around the building.

The Secret Service even identified Thomas Matthew Crooks as a person of interest and had photographed him.

Unbelievable.

Is it, though?

As Inigo Montoya said, "This word you keep using, 'unbelievable.' I do not think it means what you think it means."

What the Secret Service is most assuredly hiding is that they diverted resources to protect Doctor President Jill Biden at her indoor meet-and-greet in Pittsburgh.

They don't want to admit that Doctor President Jill really loves her perks of power, and that her galpal Kim Cheatle was only too happy to risk the life of the Once and Future President Trump to make Doctor President Jill feel more important.

If that's not true -- why are they already covering up and lawyering up?

You won't be at all surprised to find out that serial perjurer and obstructer of Congressional investigations Mayorkas is now interfering with Congress' investigation of this absolute sh*tshow.

You know -- like a criminal cover-up of his own responsibility for an assassination attempt on the Once and Future President of the United States.

The Department of Homeland Security, under the leadership of the impeached Alejandro Mayorkas, is reportedly interfering with the House of Representatives' investigation into the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas) disclosed the allegations during an interview at the GOP's national convention, highlighting significant concerns about the department's transparency.

Cloud expressed frustration with the DHS's actions, stating, "It is very concerning that right off the bat, we see DHS obfuscating as opposed to being transparent. This should be something that, regardless of party, we don't allow this kind of thing in our country."

The Secret Service, a key agency within DHS, is at the center of the controversy. Headed by Kimberly Cheatle, a sociology graduate...

Isn't that just the perfect Woke Cherry on top of the Assassination Sundae?

...the Secret Service has faced scrutiny over its failure to prevent the assassination attempt. Cheatle, appointed by President Joe Biden in August 2024, has been defended by Mayorkas despite the agency's shortcomings.

Rep. Cloud, a member of the House Oversight Committee chaired by Rep. James Comer (R-KY), revealed that DHS has obstructed scheduled briefings intended to update the committee on the investigation's progress. "We were scheduled for a first briefing today, just on the facts of the case, what's going on, what they know now, and DHS has stepped in between the communications now of the Secret Service and the Oversight Committee, and are now trying to control the communication between the two committees," Cloud stated.

In response to these obstructions, Chairman Comer is issuing subpoenas to compel the Secret Service director to testify.

Ron Johnson says the SS briefing today was "unbelievably uninformative." The Secret Service only permitted four questions -- they only permitted four questions? Are they now the Emperor's Praetorian, above the petty Senate? -- and said the rest of the questions would have to be submitted in writing.

Which gives them time to lawyer the shit out of them, and also, prevent any follow-ups to the vague horseshit answers they deign to provide.

Can't wait until Trump tosses this fat incompetent DEI trash out on her well-padded ass.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:20 PM

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