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Secret Service Agent Partly Responsible for Security Planning at Butler Rally Under Internal Investigation for Leaking ‘Videos and Photos from Her Protective Assignments’ to Social Media: Report

A Secret Service special agent, who was partially responsible for planning security at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally where President Trump was nearly assassinated, is under internal investigation for allegedly leaking sensitive videos and photos from her protective assignments to social media.

According to RealClearPolitics (RCP) correspondent Susan Crabtree, the female agent served as the official site agent for the July 13 event in Butler, Pennsylvania, where a rallygoer, Corey Comperatore, was tragically murdered in front of his family.

An analysis of the agent’s Facebook account revealed a photo seemingly taken from Mar-a-Lago, captioned with a cheery message: “A sunset to be grateful for …” accompanied by heart and sunset emojis and hashtags like “#nofilter #southflorida #thankful #workmode.”

“Sources familiar with the videos said most appeared on the agent’s Instagram account, which is marked private,” Crabtree wrote on X.

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Sources within the Secret Service say the site agent was inexperienced for such a critical security role but noted that the position is rotated throughout the Trump detail, not routinely assigned based on merit or experience.

There is now concern within the agency that the site agent for the Butler rally will take the fall for the event’s egregious layers of security failures – that Rowe will fire her over her social media posts, but not for any security failures at the July 13 event.

In contrast, the lead agent had decades of experience within the Secret Service but did not have experience on a protective detail, the innermost ring of security for presidents, first ladies, former presidents, and their families, according to sources in the Secret Service community familiar with her background.

While the months of rancor and recriminations leading up to the assassination attempt against Trump undoubtedly distracted the Trump detail from its ultimate mission, the Butler rally served as a wake -up call and a reset, according to sources close to Curran.

“Sone agents have referred to it as their 9/11 moment where people are opting back onto the detail,” remarked a source in the Secret Service community. “Morale is high, people are motivated. These agents [protecting Trump] are stiff-jawed with steel in their spine.”

This incident is not an isolated case but rather part of a broader pattern of dysfunction within the Secret Service detail assigned to Trump, according to Crabtree.

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Kamala Campaign Cheered On DDoS Attack On Musk-Trump ‘X’ Interview.

Vice President Kamala Harris‘ campaign cheered on a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) targeting X—a leading American company—on Monday, as it disrupted a conversation between former President Donald J. Trump and tech mogul Elon Musk.

DDoS attacks involve flooding websites with bogus bot or botnet traffic to sabotage their functionality or knock them offline altogether. The one on the Trump-Musk X space comes as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating a recent hack of the Trump campaign, attributed to Iran, in which internal emails were accessed.

Nevertheless, the Vice President’s team appeared thrilled that her leading election arrival—and a top U.S. business—were targeted again on Monday, trolling him on his Truth Social platform. Once their conversation concluded, Harris‘ team put out a statement sneering at Trump and Musk as “self-obsessed rich guys… who cannot run a livestream in the year 2024.”

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Musk Says Massive Cyberattack Delayed Trump Interview

Elon Musk’s planned Aug. 12 interview with Former President Donald Trump hit a roadblock after the owner said the site was facing a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack, preventing the X Space from going live.

“There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on X. Working on shutting it down,” Musk, the owner of X, said in a post.

“Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.”

Nearly 40 minutes past the planned start time, Musk’s voice finally broadcast in the Spaces room dedicated to the interview with more than a million users listening live.

Musk said the attack demonstrated that there are those who want to prevent the public hearing from Trump.

Twitter tested its Spaces platform with 8 million concurrent users earlier in the day, according to Musk.

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Trump Slams Biden ‘Coup’; Urges “We Don’t Have A President Right Now”

During Donald Trump’s conversation with Elon Musk on X Monday, which has generated over a billion views, the Republican nominee spoke about the ousting of Joe Biden from the race and questioned who is currently in charge of running the country.

“Biden is close to vegetable stage, in my opinion,” Trump urged, adding “I looked at him today on the beach, and I said, ‘Why would anybody allow him — the guy could barely walk. Does he have a political adviser that thinks this looks good? Because it looks so bad.”

Trump was referring to a video that surfaced of Biden again lounging at the beach this past weekend.

“He can’t lift the chair,” Trump continued, explaining “The chair weighs about three ounces. It’s meant for children and old people to lift, and he can’t lift it. The whole thing is crazy.”

Musk noted “It’s clearly, like, we just don’t have a president right now,” to which Trump responded, “You don’t have a president.”

Trump also addressed the way Biden was ousted from the race, noting “This was a coup. This was a coup of a president of the United States. He didn’t want to leave.”

Trump reiterated that high ranking Democrats told Biden he could go out the “nice way” or the “hard way.”

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Trump assassination task force identifies first major targets as shooting investigation ramps up

The new House task force probing the Trump assassination attempt made its first moves on Monday, requesting documents and briefings with agencies involved in investigating the shooting. 

Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas and Secret Service acting director Ronald Rowe received one letter from committee heads Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Jason Crowe, D-Colo. Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray. 

Former President Donald Trump was shot at at a Butler, Pa. rally on July 13, 2024. One attendee, Corey Comperatore, was killed and two others were critically injured. A bullet just grazed Trump’s ear, drawing blood but causing no real damage. 

After different committees, House and Senate members all tried to demand information on the momentous tragedy, the task force notified the agency heads that its own request should ‘supersede’ any other member of Congress’s. 

It requested briefings from each agency and all documents and evidence that has already been produced to Congress to be rounded up and handed to the task force. 

The task force was authorized in a rare unanimous vote in the House and is meant to consolidate numerous investigations that had been launched under differing committees of jurisdiction. 

Before that, the House Oversight Committee held a blistering hearing with former Secret Service director Kim Cheatle that prompted her resignation. 

Rowe, who took over for Cheatle, told Congress last month that he had no explanation for why the rooftop from which Thomas Matthew Crooks fired eight shots was not better secured. 

‘I went to the roof of the AGR building where the assailant fired shots, and I laid in a prone position to evaluate his line of sight. What I saw made me ashamed as a career law enforcement officer and a 25 year veteran with the Secret Service. I cannot defend why that roof was not better secured,’ he told Congress on Tuesday. 

‘When I laid in that position I could not, will not understand why there was not better coverage or at least somebody looking at that roof line when that’s where they were posted,’ Rowe said, noting that Crooks’ head would have been clearly visible from the unmanned rooftop. 

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Eyewitness, Who Secretly Recorded Interrogation with Police, Claims to Have Overheard Police Radio Comms Mentioning ‘Blood in the Bathroom’ and ‘Second Shooter on the Loose’ Following Trump Assassination Attempt

Disclaimer: The content of this article is based on eyewitness accounts and personal testimonies. It is intended for informational purposes only and should not be taken as a definitive fact. Readers are encouraged to form their own opinions and conduct further research if desired.

An eyewitness who was detained by the police on the day of the Trump assassination attempt has come forward with explosive claims.

The witness claims that during his time in police custody, he overheard alarming details on police radios that were not disclosed to the public.

The witness, who goes by the name Dave James Stewart or “realDJStew724” on YouTube, claims to have overheard police discussing the presence of blood in a bathroom and a potential second shooter on the loose.

Stewart first posted a video on July 28, fifteen days after the shooting, that shows police reacting to a perceived threat on the roof of the building several minutes before the would-be assassin, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, opened fire.

Two minutes before Crooks’ first shot, an officer could be seen with his handgun drawn as he kept watch on the roof from the opposite side of where Crooks turned out to be.

The man, who appears to be the same man in a suit later seen in police bodycam video talking with officers on the roof guarding Crooks’ body, just wanted to photograph Stewart’s ID. A state trooper would soon take Stewart into custody and take his phone, apparently giving it to the FBI who would keep it for almost a week.

Stewart wrote on his YouTube channel, “Dear PA State Police Trooper who cuffed me and roughed me up: Don’t ever tread on me again. You know what you did. Your partner better have had that bodycam on. That footage better not be deleted. You’re going to pay for what you did to me.”

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Google Admits to Changing Search Results for ‘Trump Assassination’ Searches and Much More

Well, this is indeed a shocker: Google admitted this past week that they were indeed censoring searches on GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and the assassination attempt against him. But it was just an outdated algorithm, honest!

In the latest improbable claim of semi-innocence in the field of election manipulation by a big tech corporation, counsel for Google parent company Alphabet told the House Judiciary Committee that its autocomplete algorithm wouldn’t allow people to search for results about the Trump assassination attempt at a Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on July 13 due to a prohibition against searches for political violence-related topics, National Review reported.

Similar “errors” — and I know, this is the strangest coincidence! — were also responsible for not giving autocomplete suggestions when “President Donald” was typed in or giving users news stories about Trump’s presumed rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, when searching for him.

“The attorney said the bugs were fixed after they were brought to Google’s attention,” National Review reported.

The responses came after a letter from Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday laid out the issues in depth.

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Trump Faces Another Possible Threat After Texas Woman is Arrested in DC: Report

Less than a month after having an attempt on his life, former President Donald Trump had another individual try to kill him, The Western Journal reports.

Texas police arrested a woman who they suspected was planning to try and assault the former president. Her arrest comes after Trump narrowly escaped being assassinated at his Butler, Pennsylvania rally on July 13.

The announcement of the arrest was made on Friday by the Washington Metropolitan Police Department (WMPD).

Christina Montoya was charged with “Carrying a Pistol without a License, Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, and Threats Against a Former President,” the statement read.

The statement did not provide a lot of information but did mention that authorities were tipped off by the 41-year-old’s reported intentions. It only said that police “received information regarding a woman who traveled to Washington, D.C.”

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More Questions Than Answers Remain In Trump Assassination Attempt

It’s been three weeks since 20 year old Thomas Matthew Crooks allegedly took several shots at former president Donald Trump from atop an American Glass Research building roughly 150 meters away from Trumps podium at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Grazing Trump’s right ear, killing one bystander, and wounding two others before being neutralized by the Secret Service. In that time since the dust has begun to settle, an official narrative has started to take shape, the head of the secret service has resigned in disgrace, and yet for the most part still no one really knows what happened.

How was a 20 year old just barely out of high school able to outsmart the most sophisticated security team on the planet and come within mere inches of ending the life of a former president as he campaigns for reelection?

As we dig further into this story and new evidence comes to light it only serves to further complicate an already complex web of contradiction.

While we don’t purport to have all the answers, the purpose of this article is to outline information and events as we know them in order to best discern the truth.

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Man claiming knowledge of assassination attempt on Trump arrested near Mar-a-Lago: Police

Just days after a gunman opened fire on former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally, a man tried to enter Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, claiming he had documents proving China’s involvement in the assassination attempt.

Zijie Li, 38, stood before a Palm Beach County judge on Friday, facing trespassing charges.

The first incident happened on July 19. According to police, Li attempted to enter through the main gate of Mar-a-Lago at 7:59 p.m. before he was stopped by the United States Secret Service (USSS). He reportedly told USSS that he had a folder that contained information claiming that China was involved in former President Donald Trump’s assassination attempt. The affidavit says police were called and officers issued Li a a written trespassing warning.

The affidavit says police advised Li to not return or he would be arrested.

That didn’t stop Li. On Tuesday and Wednesday Li was seen driving his vehicle near Mar-a-Lago, the arrest report says.

The report says, on Tuesday he was seen traveling on South Ocean Boulevard. He was approached by an officer and USSS agents who told him not to return Mar-a-Lago again and he was released.

On Wednesday Li tried to enter the south gate at Mar-a-Lago but was stopped by security. The report says due to the previous warnings, a BOLO was issued on Li’s vehicle.

It led to a Palm Beach officer arresting Li at Royal Palm Way and County Road.

Sheriff Ric Bradshaw has been alongside the Secret Service, ramping up safety measures with around-the-clock security, both on land and water.

“I want everybody to feel comfortable coming to visit here. I mean, look, we’re well trained at this. We protected the president for four years here. We’ve never had a glitch. We work seamlessly with the Secret Service. And folks, they’re excellent,” Bradshaw said in a news conference.

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