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Bombshell: New Trump Assassination Video Blows Secret Service Narrative Out of the Water

Newly released video footage appears to disprove testimony given by the Secret Service about not being able to spot Thomas Matthew Crooks on the roof before he fired at former President Donald Trump.

Obtained by Fox News, the video gives a new point of view from where James Copenhaver, one of the victims was seated. He was shot twice. 

The video was taken around 6:08 p.m. on July 13, three minutes before Crooks began shooting. A person, presumably Crooks, is seen walking on the roof of the building as Trump is talking.

He was fatally shot by a counter-sniper. There were eight shell casings next to his body.

During his effort to kill Trump, Crooks killed Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old former fire chief at the Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Department. He also critically injured Copenhaver, 74, and David Dutch, 57. Dutch was also shot twice, according to sources who know the victims.

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A World of Illusions

Nothing is as it appears. Kim Cheatle resigned as director of the Secret Service under intense pressure. In a rare display of bipartisanship, Republicans and Democrats grilled Cheatle as she stonewalled in front of James Comer’s House Oversight Committee. Stonewalling is art among Biden administration appointees. Yet, don’t think that committee Democrats joined Republicans on principle.

As always in Washington, low politics downed Cheatle, a favorite of Doc Jill Biden. That favoritism showed the weekend Donald Trump was shot. Doc Jill’s Secret Service detail was boosted while she was at Pittsburgh, a mere hour south of Butler. Trump’s detail was left wanting.

Cheatle was cut loose because Democrats are covering their rears. Democrats want to fob off the shooting as another misfit white guy with grudges. But is that the real story? Thanks to their hate rhetoric, more likely, Thomas Matthew Crooks was incited to try killing Trump. The “Trump as Hitler” line was started by Hillary Clinton last autumn on The View. Crooks nearly changed history. Democrats have been dodging the truth. Republicans shouldn’t let them get away with it, but probably will.

Cheatle — a DEI hire, too — was in over her head. As mentioned, the Secret Service had under-resourced Trump’s protection detail. That suggests a darker motive: that Cheatle and her boss, Alejandro Mayorkas, the weaselly secretary of Homeland Security, didn’t give a damn about Trump’s safety. A number of Democrats spilled the beans. After the shooting, many publicly hoped that the next gunman “wouldn’t miss next time.”

Don’t forget that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s request for Secret Service protection was turned down multiple times. Not that anyone would want to shoot another Kennedy. RFK Jr. claims that the Biden administration did so to siphon off monies — hundreds of thousands monthly — from his campaign for security. Biden’s handlers hoped to squeeze Kennedy out of the race. It took Trump’s near-murder for Biden’s handlers to relent. Only when the optics changed did they change.

Cheatle needed to go but never should have been hired. But that’s the Biden administration’s tale. It’s populated with DEI box checks to please progressives. Their incompetence, corruption, and blinkered devotion to woke ideology have converged to wreck America.

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Secret Service refused drones before Trump shooting, whistleblower says: Report

A new whistleblower report claims that the U.S. Secret Service refused local law enforcement offers to have drone security at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The allegation comes after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed that would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks flew a reconnaissance drone in the area just hours before the campaign rally.

Sharing a copy of a letter he sent on Thursday to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) highlighted new allegations from an anonymous whistleblower.

Hawley tweeted, “Whistleblower tells me local law enforcement partners & suppliers offered drones to Secret Service BEFORE the rally – but Secret Service declined.”

In his letter to Mayorkas, Hawley said a whistleblower said the Secret Service “repeatedly denied offers from a local law enforcement partner to utilize drone technology to secure the rally” the night before Trump’s Pennsylvania rally. In light of the whistleblower’s testimony, the Missouri senator said, “This means that the technology was both available to [U.S. Secret Service] and able to be deployed to secure the site.”

Despite having drone technology available, Hawley said the Secret Service said “no” to the offer. He added that the whistleblower also claimed that the Secret Service later requested the deployment of drone technology after the assassination attempt to “surveil the site in the aftermath of the attack.”

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CNN: It’s ‘Wildly Irresponsible’ For Trump — Who Was Shot In The Head — To Say Secret Service Didn’t Protect Him

CNN’s Jim Acosta claimed during his afternoon segment on Tuesday that it was “wildly irresponsible” for former President Donald Trump to accurately note that the U.S. Secret Service failed to protect him from an attempted assassination that left him with a wounded ear.

“The Biden/Harris Administration did not properly protect me, and I was forced to take a bullet for Democracy. IT WAS MY GREAT HONOR TO DO SO!” former President Donald Trump wrote Tuesday on Truth Social.

The 2024 Republican presidential nominee also pointed out shortly after U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned in disgrace that she “never gave me proper protection, so I ended up having to take a bullet for democracy.”

“When you hear the former president saying something like that, what’s your reaction?” Acosta asked his guest. “I mean, obviously, the Secret Service is a professional operation. To say something like ‘they did not protect me,’ it just sounds just wildly irresponsible.”

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Jaw-Dropper: Four Times as Many Local Secret Service Agents Sent to Jill Biden on Same Day Trump Was Shot

GOP Rep. William Timmons of South Carolina pressed Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle on Monday on reports that the Pittsburgh Secret Service field office sent four times the number of additional agents to cover a first lady Jill Biden event than to former President Donald Trump’s July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he was shot.

Cheatle neither confirmed nor denied that was the case.

Biden was speaking at an event at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh for approximately 300 people close to the same time Trump was speaking at his rally attended by several thousand, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune.

Timmons started out his questioning of Cheatle asking if she agreed with the statement that Secret Service resources allocated to a particular events should correspond to the risk profile of it.

The director agreed.

“And when two events occur at the same time and the same geographic vicinity that the risk profile of each event should be taken into account, and whichever event is greater risk should receive greater resources?” the congressman continued.

“That is correct,” Cheatle replied.

The lawmaker than contrasted Trump’s outdoor rally, when he has been under specific threats from Iran, to Biden’s indoor event.

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Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle a close friend of the Biden Crime Family – Jill’s office recommended her for the position

Many are calling for her to resign after it came out that Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle is a deep state darling with close ties to the Biden Crime Family and other career criminals in American politics.

Following the debacle in Butler, Penn., the locale of Trump rally where the former president was shot at in a failed assassination attempt, truth sleuths started digging for information about Cheatle who is about as bad as it gets when it comes to special interest politics.

Take the below interview from Sept. 21, 2022, for instance, in which Cheatle told “Good Morning America” that she knew the Biden Crime Family “for several years and fostered a relationship with them” before she was appointed as leader of the Secret Service.

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The Secret Service Recruitment Guide Confirms that DEI Is Its Highest Calling – Competence Is Not a Priority – And If You’re a White Male, Forget About It

President Trump was shot and nearly assassinated last Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The details of the shooting continue to develop and are constantly changing. This tells you the feds are not being honest – once again.

Many Americans are still stunned by the antics of the three stooges outside President Trump’s vehicle after he was shot. These women never should have been anywhere near the president!

Now there is new information on why the Secret Service would have such inept employees on the president’s detail.

Today’s Secret Service puts more emphasis on DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) than on competent employees. How else to you explain a 5 foot 3 inch, 140 pound woman on the detail of a 6 foot 3 inch former president who likely weighs up to 230 pounds?

Was this little woman expected to drag President Trump from the stage if he was seriously injured? Did these frantic women appear to be in control of the situation as it was happening or did they look like they could start firing on the crowd any second?

Chris Tigani posted pages from the Secret Service Recruitment Guide on X on Sunday.

It is truly shocking the nonsense they are pushing over competence.

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Discovery of Drone Surveillance by Trump’s Shooter Reveals Additional Security Lapses

Thomas Matthew Crooks, the shooter who tried to kill Donald Trump at the rally in Pennsylvania, managed to fly a drone for aerial footage of the site, a few hours before the assassination attempt, the WSJ reports, citing law-enforcement officials familiar with the matter.

Crooks had flown the drone on a programmed flight path several times earlier in the day on July 13, to scour the Butler Farm Show grounds ahead of the event, the officials said. The discovery has raised more serious concerns over the reliability of the security services, the outlet notes.

What else has been revealed?

The use of the drone was just one way in which authorities said Crooks had planned his attack.

The perpetrator came to Trump’s rally with a pair of homemade bombs designed for detonation with remote control.

The authorities also found primitive explosives and a vest with three 30-round magazines in Crooks’ car. This suggests that he probably “wanted to cause greater carnage”, according to the article.

Crooks had also ordered several packages labeled “hazardous materials” to be shipped to his home in the past month. He also conducted online searches for Trump rally dates, and information on Biden and the Democratic National Convention.

On Saturday, a 20-year-old man tried to assassinate Trump at a campaign rally in the state of Pennsylvania, but the bullet from the gunman’s AR assault rifle grazed Trump’s right ear. US Secret Service agents killed the gunman moments after he was able to fire several rounds toward the stage, killing one spectator and critically injuring two others.

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Whistleblowers Reveal What Secret Service Said During Briefings Before Trump Assassination Attempt

The United States Secret Service acknowledged it had “limited resources” during briefings held before the July 13 Trump rally in Pennsylvania at which an attempted assassination occurred, according to whistleblower disclosures to the House Judiciary Committee. 

The admitted lack of necessary resources, according to the whistleblowers, was due to the NATO summit in Washington, D.C., that took place before the rally from July 9 through July 11.

“Whistleblowers have disclosed to the Committee that the USSS led two briefings regarding the July 13 campaign rally on July 8, 2024, with the Western Pennsylvania Fusion Center (WPFC) and other stakeholders, to discuss the upcoming, unrelated visits by President Trump and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden,” a July 18 Judiciary Committee letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed. 

“The USSS Special Agent in Charge Tim Burke reportedly told law enforcement partners that the USSS had limited resources that week because the agency was covering the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Washington, D.C.,” the letter continued. “FBI personnel were present at those briefings.”

“While the Committee recognizes that the FBI is one of many agencies represented in the WPFC, it is the lead federal investigative arm and a key source of intelligence on potential threats for special events in its area of responsibility,” the Judiciary Committee emphasized.

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Nobody Can Be This Dumb. Not Even DEI Hires are This Dumb. Something Smells Rotten at The Secret Service

I’ve always known many government employees are dumb as a box of rocks. They couldn’t last a week in the private sector. That’s why they look for the safety of government jobs- where you can be completely 100% incompetent for 20+ years and keep your job.

Exhibit A is Kamala Harris. She is even dumber than her boss Joe Biden. But he has dementia. What’s her excuse? She is just plain dumb as a doorknob.

Kamala has gotten a government paycheck her entire life based on being a woman, and black, and having affairs with powerful men. And it worked- she rose to Vice President of the United States despite being completely incompetent. Now she’s literally a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

Kamala is the “Great Replacement Theory” for Joe Biden.

But she is far from alone. In this administration we find many DEI hires who are completely incompetent, mixed with arrogance and entitlement. See Mayor Pete, Rachel Levine and Sam Britton. I’m sure there are thousands more hidden in government offices and cubicles.

But now we get to a special case: Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle.

Is she just another incompetent government DEI hire? Well in a word…YES. But it’s more than that. Because no one is this dumb. Not even Kamala is as dumb and clueless as Cheatle appears to be.

When it’s this obvious, it’s a scam.

Look at the storyline of the Trump almost-assassination. It’s just impossible anyone, or even any government employee, or even any government agency, could be this stupid, careless, reckless and incompetent.

The assassin walked around for over an hour as a “person of interest.” And no one did anything.

He had a golf range finder in his hand. And no one did anything.

He was spotted with a rifle and a backpack. But still, no one did anything.

He was carrying a ladder and climbing onto a roof. And no one did anything.

The roof he used to try to murder President Trump had a perfect, clear sightline to the target. The Secret Service never thought to secure that roof.

Trump rally attendees were screaming at police and pointing to the assassin on the roof- and still, no one did anything.

While the assassin was climbing onto the roof and sitting on the roof for 30 minutes, a sniper team was inside the building, right under the assassin.

A Secret Service sniper on a roof next to President Trump was looking right at “the threat” in his gun scope, but waited until the assassin fired at President Trump’s head to fire upon the assassin. Wouldn’t you say that’s a little too late?

The Secret Service now admits they were aware of an assassination threat for 10 minutes before Trump took the stage. So why did they allow him to take the stage?

The Secret Service Director Cheatle actually gave the worst excuse for not securing that roof since “the dog ate my homework”- she actually said out loud that the roof was sloped, so she didn’t want to put Secret Service agents in danger.

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