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House Finds Secret Service Responsible For ‘Preventable’ Trump Assassination Attempt

House lawmakers tasked with investigating the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania said Monday that the attack never would have happened had the Secret Service been prepared.

The House Task Force on the July 13 assassination attempt in Butler released a 53-page interim report detailing the “stunning security failures” that led to Trump being struck in the ear by a bullet fired by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks. These failures included numerous communication errors and inadequate planning to secure the site. 

“Put simply, the evidence obtained by the Task Force to date shows the tragic and shocking events of July 13 were preventable and should not have happened,” the task force said. 

One of the key findings of the report concluded that the security perimeter set up by the Secret Service allowed people to get within around 150 yards of the stage where Trump was speaking without going through security screening. 

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‘HE’S ON THE ROOF!’ – Tucker Carlson Releases Shocking Unseen Footage of Trump Assassination Attempt

Tucker Carlson has released shocking unseen footage of the first assassination attempt against Donald Trump.

The raw footage, captured across various cameras, shows attendees at the rally warning the Secret Service that the attempted shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, successfully scaled a nearby roof before coming inches away from assassinating the former president.

In separate footage, attendees are seen sheltering themselves from the gunfire, which sadly killed firefighter Corey Comperatore and seriously wounded two others.

Such footage corroborates the view that the Secret Service drastically failed in its duties to secure the area, a failure that led to the resignation of its director, Kimberley Cheatle.

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About that Secret Service Agents’ free trip to LGBTQ conference at Disneyworld …

We are in the middle of a hotly contested presidential election.  There have already been two attempted assassinations of Donald Trump. 

Reliable sources report Iran has sniper teams here to kill The Donald.  So what does the Secret Service do?  It sends needed agents to an all-expense paid LGBTQ conference at what Disney calls “The Most Magical Place on Earth.”

The Secret Service leadership finally admitted they did not assign the full complement of agents to Trump’s detail in Butler, Pennsylvania.  Only a few were fully trained Protective Detail agents. The rest of the squad came from the B-Team.  They usually spend their time chasing counterfeiters and credit card fraudsters.  The temps’ protection training was watching a two-hour video.  That’s less than a good movie and popcorn. 

The Service doesn’t have enough time or manpower to answer even the simplest questions the Congressional Committee asks. USSS leadership claims they don’t have enough money to complete their vital mission.  But they have the time, resources, and budget to solicit agents for the free four-day trip to what we Floridians call the Mouse House.

The story went public when the service’s DEI office sent a memo to every assistant director asking them to nominate candidates for this fun-in-the-sun trip to Orlando. 

Susan Crabtree of Real Clear Politics uncovered the details. She learned those assistant directors had to send a list of their preferred people to the Secret Service Office of Alternative Employment. 

You may want to stop here and think why the agency responsible for protecting the free world’s leaders needs something called “Alternative Employment,” but that’s up to you.  If I ran the Service, the employment qualifications would include good physical condition, great marksmanship, and a bad attitude, but that’s just me.  I wouldn’t concentrate on hiring agents who nap mano-mano or ladies in comfortable shoes.  

Disneyworld is a very logical place to hold this conference.  Disney’s objection to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ bill prohibiting teachers from indoctrinating students about sexual choice in the early school years went national.  Mickey has even supported Gay Days for decades.  For one magical weekend every year, the LGBTQ crowd invades Fantasyland. Participants all wear bright red t-shirts so they can identify kindred spirits.  Disney avoids any problem of straights who arrive in a red shirt feeling accosted.  It offers them free any-color-but red shirts.

Disney can be very ingenious in other ways.  Seminars usually wrap no later than 5:00 p.m,, and there is plenty to do in the evening.  When Gay Days at Disney first began, the manager of the famous Mannequins Night Club called a senior Disney executive at 10:00 p.m.  The manager was very upset.  He asked, ‘Sir, we have men dancing with men!  The families with kids are all very distraught!  What do I do?  What do I do?”

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Six most shocking revelations in Senate report on Secret Service’s handling of first Trump shooting

Some alarming revelations appear in the bipartisan Senate report on the U.S. Secret Service’s handling of the first attempted assassination of former President Trump at his campaign rally in Butler, Pa. in July.

Report on Trump shooting in Butler, Pa.pdf

1 – The full report, released on Wednesday by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, detailed how an inexperienced Secret Service drone detection operator was on the phone with customer service, trying to figure out how to properly operate the C-UAS drone detection system as suspect Thomas Crooks’ assassination plot was unfolding. 

“C-UAS system experienced technical problems and was inoperable until 4:33 pm, after Crooks flew his drone near the rally site,” the report said. “With no backup system, the USSS agent responsible for overseeing the C-UAS capabilities at the July 13 rally called a toll-free 888 tech support hotline ‘to start troubleshooting with the company,’ which took several hours. That agent had only three months of experience working with that equipment and lacked knowledge about it.”

2 – The report revealed that a USSS Counter Sniper Team Leader warned counter snipers by email, not radio communications or mobile text messaging, about Crooks lurking with a rangefinder and did not urge agents to keep Trump off the rally stage.

The leader received text messages from a local sniper at approximately 5:45 pm “regarding an individual near the AGR building with a rangefinder looking toward the stage.” The text messages he received included two photos of Crooks, whose identity was unknown at the time. He forwarded the information to USSS counter snipers in an email, which contained an error. The message said, “Kid learning around the building we are in” instead of, “Kid lurking around the building we are in.” 

One of the snipers who saw the email told the committee it was “worded vaguely” but they still tried searching the site for Crooks.

3 – A Secret Service sniper saw local law-enforcement with guns drawn, heading toward the building where Crooks was about to shoot from, but did not alert the agents protecting Trump.

“Shortly before shots were fired, a USSS counter sniper saw local law enforcement running toward the AGR building with their guns drawn, but he did not alert former President Trump’s protective detail to remove him from the stage,” the committee reported. “The USSS counter sniper told the Committee that while seeing officers with their guns drawn ‘elevated’ the threat level, the thought to notify someone to get Trump off the stage ‘did not cross [his] mind.’”

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Secret Service uniformed officer accidentally shoots himself while on duty

A U.S. Secret Service (USSS) Uniformed Division officer was injured in Washington, D.C., Saturday night after accidentally shooting himself.

The USSS told Fox News Digital that the “negligent discharge” occurred near 32nd and Fessenden streets in the northwest section of the city just before 8 p.m.

The agent, who was on duty, was handling his service weapon when the firearm discharged.

The USSS said the agent’s injuries were not life-threatening, adding that he was taken to an area hospital for treatment and evaluation.

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Sen. Hawley Releases Whistleblower Report on First Trump Assassination Attempt

On Monday Sen. Josh Hawley, (R-Mo) released a whistleblower report regarding the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13. The report is subtitled ‘Failures of The United States Secret Service in Connection with the Attempted Assassination of Former President Donald J. Trump’.

Most notably, the report detailed three revelations from whistleblowers which have not been reported prior to its publication on Monday.

“The lead agent responsible for the entire Butler visit, including the rally, failed a key examination during their federal law enforcement training to become a Secret Service agent,” the report said on page 2.

“Secret Service intelligence units—teams of Secret Service agents paired with state and local law enforcement to handle reports of suspicious persons—were absent from the Butler rally,” the report said on page 2.

“The hospital site where former President Trump received treatment after the shooting was poorly secured, and the hospital site agent could not answer basic questions about site security,” the report said on page 2.

The lack of federal transparency has caused investigations to turn toward whistleblowers.

“…sources with direct knowledge of Secret Service’s own internal investigation have alleged to Senator Hawley that the Department of Homeland Security is leaning on Secret Service not to comply with document requests from Congress. Instead, it has been left to courageous whistleblowers to tell the story of what really happened,” the report said on page 16.

The report began by summarizing the fateful day of July 13 followed by detailing federal agency behaviors indicative of elusion and obfuscation surrounding the attempted assassination.

“Following this catastrophic failure, the Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have all tried to evade real accountability. These agencies and their leaders have slow-walked congressional investigations, misled the American people, and shirked responsibility,” the report said on page 1.

The report went on to describe the response taken by Hawley to this federal inaction.

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Sen. Hawley: New Whistleblowers Say Secret Agents Usually Have Agent Stationed on Known High Risks Areas at the Golf Course, But During Trump’s Assassination Attempt NO ONE was There

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) sounded the alarm over shocking new revelations from whistleblowers regarding the security breach that nearly resulted in the assassination of former President Donald Trump at his West Palm Beach golf club.

According to whistleblower reports received by Hawley’s office, the Secret Service failed to station agents at known vulnerable spots on the course—a violation of standard protocol that left the 45th president exposed during the attack.

The chilling details emerged during an interview Hawley conducted with Jesse Watters on Fox News.

The Senator expressed deep concern over the lapses, noting that agents who were typically positioned in high-risk areas were inexplicably absent the day Trump was targeted by 58-year-old Trump-hater Ryan Wesley Routh.

Routh was armed with a rifle and managed to breach the course’s perimeter before Secret Service agents took him down.

According to the federal criminal complaint filed last week, Routh began his sinister operation early Sunday morning. His cell phone data indicated he arrived at the golf course vicinity at approximately 1:59 a.m., positioning himself for nearly 12 hours before the assassination attempt.

Hawley revealed that the golf course Trump was playing on has long been monitored by the Secret Service, with agents typically stationed at specific locations known to be vulnerable. However, whistleblowers claim that during this incident, no agents were in place to secure these high-risk areas.

“That golf course the President was playing, the Secret Service has guarded that course many, many times,” said Hawley.

“What the whistleblower says is, protocol calls for the Secret Service to station agents along the places in the course that are known vulnerabilities. I want to emphasize, the service has guarded this course many times. They know where the vulnerabilities are.”

“They normally station agents there ahead of Trump’s appearance on the course, but they apparently did not do that this last weekend. The whistleblowers tell me that’s strange. That’s out of protocol. It’s not even clear the Secret Service swept the perimeter before Trump took to the course, which is also a breach of protocol. They want to know why, and so do I. I think the Secret Service deserves to give us answers.”

The shocking revelation comes just two months after Trump narrowly survived another assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, where a Democrat donor, Thomas Crooks, almost succeeded in his plot to kill the former president.

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LEAK: Secret Service Agents Assigned to Trump Butler Rally Never Directed Local Police to Guard Roof Used by Thomas Crooks

Another ‘coincidental’ Secret Service failure that led to the attempted assassination of President Trump.

New details about the so-called security breakdown that led to an assassination attempt against President Trump during his Butler, Pennsylvania in July have been leaked to the Washington Post.

According to WaPo, Secret Service agents never directed local police to secure the roof that would-be assassin Thomas Crooks used to take 8 shots at Trump and rallygoers.

Would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was able to climb on top of a roof next to Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania rally and put Trump in his scope.

A bullet grazed President Trump’s ear during his Pennsylvania rally. One rallygoer was fatally struck in the head. Two other rally attendees were wounded, one critically.

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It Was a Setup… REVEALED: Most Agents Protecting Trump During Attempted Assassination Were Homeland Security Personnel Who Received Only a ‘2-Hour Online Webinar’ Beforehand

On July 13, 2024, President Trump was shot in the ear during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The attempted assassin, Thomas Crooks, was seen staking out the area before the assassination attempt. Crooks somehow was able to carry a gun up on the roof, jump from roof to roof on two buildings, walk around on top of the roof, and then crawl up the metal roof before he started firing at President Trump.

Several Trump supporters were standing nearby screaming at police to take action, who did nothing before Crooks started firing off eight shots at the former president.

Since that day there are still no answers on how Crooks was able to fire off several shots at Trump during a rally and why President Trump was allowed on the stage.

It is now known that former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and the agency denied repeated requests from worried agents on Trump’s detail for more security for the former president. It was denied.

On Tuesday, Senator Josh Hawley posted information from a whistleblower that is truly shocking. According to the whistleblower, the Homeland Security personnel who were assigned to Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania received only a “two-hour online webinar” for their training before protecting President Trump.

Senator Hawley included this in his letter:

“Whistleblower allegations to my office report that the only training received by many HSI agents reassigned to work protective details is a single two-hour webinar on Microsoft Teams featuring pre-recorded videos… These videos were not substantive and their playback was frequently riddled with technical mishaps leaving the HSI agents ill-prepared for the protective mission to which they were newly assigned.”

So DHS refused the Trump campaign requests for extra agents and then the majority of agents who were assigned to the Butler rally received only a ‘two-hour online webinar’ for their training.

It was a setup.

This is a shocking development.

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“I Was Astonished at the Lack of Numbers Protecting President Trump” – Devin Nunes Insinuates Democrats Were Purposely Trying to Get Trump Killed

Former Congressman and CEO of TRUTH Social, Devin Nunes, spoke to the X22 Report this week. Nunes discussed the 2024 election, the rigged elections, and the attempted assassination of President Trump.

Nunes told X22 Report that he had noticed for months that he was “astonished” that there was not enough Secret Service agents assigned to President Trump’s rallies. The campaign had requested more manpower for months. But Joe Biden refused the requests for some reason.

Nunes implies that Democrats (and deep state officials) were purposely attempting to get Trump killed.

It sure looks that way.

X22 Report: Do you think we’re going to see some October surprises? Do you think they’re either on the side of the Democrats or with Trump and his party? Do you think there are any surprises that are going to come out in October? Normally, we get that.

Devin Nunes: Look, we know now there’s nothing that they won’t do. I mean, look, we watched an attempted assassination attempt. I knew from just my time with the President and speaking to the Secret Service, many who I’ve known for a long time, and they know my background in intelligence, I was just astonished by the lack of numbers that were protecting President Trump.

And I think many of the Secret Service guys that I spoke to knew that also. And this wasn’t a couple of months ago. This goes back a year ago to when I was having these discussions. And I told President Trump numerous times that he’s got be very careful here because a lot of bad actors out there that don’t want to see him in office.

And as you know, just to take that shot to the side of the head, just by, I don’t know, quarter inch, and this is a changed world.

Look, there’s nothing they won’t try. I guess, Dave, is nothing they won’t do, but they are hampered right now because they have two candidates in Kamala, Kumala, however the hell you say her name, and Walz.

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