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Secret Service Failed to Prevent Juvenile from Illegally Entering President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Compound Last December

The US Secret Service failed to prevent a juvenile from illegally entering President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound last December and no one was disciplined or fired over the security breach.

The juvenile intruder was able to wander around undetected for nearly ONE HOUR and even jumped into the pool.

“Sources in the Secret Service community are raising the Mar-a-Lago breach as further evidence that the detail and its supervisors assigned to protect Trump are given preferential treatment and are not bearing the same responsibility for the layers of security failures leading up to the July 13 assassination attempt against Trump that wounded the former president in the ear and killed retired fireman Corey Comperatore in front of his family. The detail and its two leaders are very close to and well-liked by Trump and the former president’s extended family,” RealClearPolitics reporter Susan Crabtree said.

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Pentagon approves additional support to Secret Service for election campaigns

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has approved a request to provide the Secret Service with additional military support capabilities for presidential and vice presidential candidates for the upcoming election, the Pentagon and the Secret Service said separately on Thursday.

Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh did not provide details on the type of support that would be provided but said Austin had directed U.S. Northern Command to plan and provide support to the Secret Service at various locations during the election.

A Secret Service spokesperson said later the Secret Service has strengthened its protective operations following the July 13 Pennsylvania rally of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in which the former president was shot and survived an assassination attempt.

“As part of this effort, the Department of Defense is providing the U.S. Secret Service with additional assistance including logistics, transportation, and communications, through the 2024 campaign season,” the Secret Service spokesperson said.

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What Is Secret Service Hiding About Trump Assassination Attempt?

It’s been six weeks since the attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the American public’s questions about the nature of the attack and the security failings that led to Trump’s brush with death largely remain unanswered.

Jason Chaffetz, a Fox News contributor and former Utah congressman who once chaired the House Oversight Committee, joined “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the apparent security failures and ongoing investigations into what transpired in Butler on July 13.

“I thought the extraction was very slow. I thought it was fairly pathetic,” Chaffetz told The Daily Signal. “It’s been illuminated more now that even though he was the Republican nominee, even though he was the former president, he wasn’t getting the full protective detail that a sitting president would get. And I have a problem with that.”

Chaffetz thinks the failures are structural. Poor recruitment and training, as well as heavy workloads, create a perfect storm for the kinds of security lapses witnessed on July 13 in Butler, Chaffetz suggested. These problems have long plagued the Secret Service.

When Chaffetz chaired the House Oversight Committee, he conducted the largest investigation into the Secret Service’s operations in American history. The investigation resulted in a more than 400-page report, “United States Secret Service: An Agency in Crisis.”

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Whistleblower Says Secret Service HQ Told Agents Working Butler Event NOT To Request Additional Manpower Resources For Trump Rally, Warned Such Requests Would Be Denied!

Officials at Secret Service headquarters told agents working Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, not to request additional manpower resources for the July 13th event and warned any such requests would be denied, according to a whistleblower with knowledge of the matter.

The sensational allegation contradicts Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr.’s previous testimony to the Senate, where he repeatedly suggested that no security assets had been denied for the Butler event.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) released a scathing letter to Rowe Friday demanding he “explain this apparent contradiction immediately.”

Transcript below (emphasis ours):

Dear Acting Director Rowe,

I have received new whistleblower allegations that again call into question your recent testimony before the Senate. One whistleblower with knowledge of Secret Service planning for former President Trump’s trip to Butler, Pennsylvania alleges that officials at Secret Service headquarters encouraged agents in charge of the trip not to request any additional security assets in its formal manpower request-effectively denying these assets through informal means. Yet you have repeatedly suggested that no security assets had been denied for the Butler event. You must explain this apparent contradiction immediately.

According to the whistleblower, the lead advance agent for a protectee trip typically submits a “manpower request” to the local field office. This normally includes the number of personnel and other security assets needed for the event and is submitted to the U.S. Secret Service’s Office of Protective Operations – Manpower (OPO – Manpower) for final approval. According to the allegations, officials within this office preemptively informed the Pittsburgh field office that the Butler rally was not going to receive additional security resources because Trump is a former president and not the incumbent President or Vice President. According to the whistleblower, the manpower request did not include extra security resources because agents on the ground were told not to ask for them in the first place.

Importantly, these resources included counter-sniper teams and Counter Surveillance Division (CSD) personnel. According to public reports, counter-snipers were ultimately approved, but only the day prior to the event-leaving them an insufficient amount of time to conduct a proper site assessment. I have previously written you about a separate whistleblower’s allegations to my office that personnel from CSD would have handcuffed the gunman in the parking lot after he was spotted with a rangefinder, but they were not present on the day. You stated in an August 2 press conference that CSD personnel support former presidents’ details “when requested.” But these new allegations suggest that CSD personnel, counter-sniper teams, and other critical security assets were not included in the manpower request for the Butler trip because Secret Service officials told the requesting agents that they would be denied.

These allegations come despite your testimony to the contrary before the Senate on July 30. When asked whether former President Trump’s team had been denied resources, you stated: “If you’re talking about Butler, Pennsylvania, all assets requested were approved.” You also stated directly to me that you have been “very transparent and forthcoming” with Congress. But according to the allegations, you did not tell the full story.

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Report: Secret Service Agent Abandoned Post at North Carolina Trump Event to Nurse Baby

A report from Real Clear Politics’ Susan Crabtree reveals that during President Donald Trump’s visit to North Carolina on August 14th, a Secret Service agent abandoned her post to breastfeed her baby.

The shocking details come just weeks after a failed assassination attempt against President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, which has raised serious concerns about the Secret Service.

According to the report, five minutes before President Trump’s motorcade was scheduled to arrive, the site agent in charge of security for the entire event found the agent from the Atlanta Field Office breastfeeding her child in a room that was supposed to be set aside for Secret Service “official work.”

According to Crabtree, the agent had no permission to leave her post, and she did not warn the site event agent.

Crabtree reported on X:

Shortly before Trump’s motorcade arrival — I’m told five minutes beforehand — the site agent was getting ready for the arrival. (The site agent is the person in charge of the entire event’s security.)

The site agent went to do one final sweep of the walking route and found the agent breast-feeding her child in a room that is supposed to be set aside for important Secret Service official work, i.e. a potential emergency related to the president.

Not only can a working agent not bring a child during a protective assignment, but Crabtree notes that two other family members were in the room with the agent, and the group bypassed the Uniformed Division checkpoint.

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And Secret Service Did Nothing? Photo Released of Would-Be Assassin Thomas Crooks Walking Around Building with a Gun Before Shooting President Trump

A new video was released on Wednesday by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) of would-be assassin casually walking around a building with a gun before he shot President Trump and nearly took off his head.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna: “I just obtained a photo that was taken by an individual at the rally in PA of Crooks walking around the building before the assassination attempt WITH the gun used to shoot at President Trump. This photo was submitted to LEO in PA. To my knowledge, this photo has not been released until now.”

How in the world did the Secret Service miss this?

There are certainly a lot of questions that still need to be answered.

On Sunday, The Gateway Pundit posted a video of Thomas Crooks jumping from roof to roof before he slithered up on his belly and shot President Trump. Crooks also killed a Trump supporter in the crowd and injured two others.

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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.

More from RealClearPolitics:

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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Above the law: Secret Service agents get caught picking the lock of a local business to use the facilities and snack on the candy

What does a “progressive” government think of private property rights? Well, they’re just temporary privileges granted by the all-powerful state which can be tread on and revoked at discretion.

Immediately after Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden on the Democrat ticket after a successful coup—Biden’s first interview since the switcheroo, which aired yesterday, described being pushed out by colleagues—she held a fundraiser in Massachusetts, during which time Secret Service agents allegedly broke into a nearby business, a small local hair salon, so they could have access to private bathroom facilities. Porta potties are just so below their station, and of course planning ahead with private mobile bathrooms would have required competent preparation, something we all know the Secret Service seriously lacks, from the top tiers of leadership to agents on the ground. 

Agents reportedly kept the door open all day allowing other “haves” to use the business’s restroom, snacked on the candy by the reception desk intended for salon customers, and when they were done, left the doors unlocked and camera lenses covered by tape.

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The Left’s Apparent Coup d’état Against Trump, Version 2.0

Much to the Left’s chagrin, Donald Trump appears to be unstoppable.

The Dems and their allies have tried everything—impeachments, a stolen election, the Mar-a-lago raid, multiple bogus “lawfare” cases—to keep him out of the White House. Why wouldn’t they go for broke and try to kill him, as he’s clearly poised to become the 47th President of the United States?

Apparently, they did.

If so, this was their second coup d’état against him—this one coming in anticipation of his winning the 2024 election. The first was the stolen election as a result of the Color Revolution in 2020, leading up to the faux “insurrection” on January 6th that provided cover for the real insurrection: the overthrow of our government and our legitimately elected President.

As new facts emerge about the assassination attempt on Trump, the picture appears to go far beyond “mere incompetence.”

For example, we learned this from Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, a very caring person adamant about protecting…her staff:

That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof.

Placing Madame DEI Cheatle as Director of the Secret Service was tantamount to putting Inspector Clouseau—one of actor Peter Sellers great comedic triumphs—in charge of the operation. After all, Clouseau could be counted on to put the Marx brothers in key positions as counter-snipers, so instead of Cheatle’s agents guarding the rooftop from would-be assassins, they sat inside the adjacent building like fireman drinking coffee and playing cards in the fire station, while the assassin clambered up to the roof, his backpack full of ammo and a rangefinder, and his AK-15 in tow, in full view of many bystanders who kept unsuccessfully trying to alert law enforcement.

Then for the local police, we have the Keystone Cops or Three Stooges, one of whom hoists his buddy up to the roof to check things out. He takes a peek, and upon seeing the assassin—who of course points his rifle at him—he panics and promptly falls to the ground. Does he, or do Moe or Curly immediately contact Clouseau and tell him to get Trump off the stage and to safety? Not a chance. That is, either the Stooges hopelessly bungled their chance to save the day, or they did contact the Secret Service D-Team, who then fumbled the ball themselves.

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Former Secret Service Chief Wanted To Destroy Cocaine Evidence

Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and others in top agency leadership positions wanted to destroy the cocaine discovered in the White House last summer, but the Secret Service Forensics Services Division and the Uniformed Division stood firm and rejected the push to dispose of the evidence, according to three sources in the Secret Service community.

Multiple heated confrontations and disagreements over how best to handle the cocaine ensued after a Secret Services Uniformed Division officer found the bag on July 2, 2023, a quiet Sunday while President Biden and his family were at Camp David in Maryland, the sources said.

At least one Uniformed Division officer was initially assigned to investigate the cocaine incident. But after he told his supervisors, including Cheatle and Acting Secret Service Director Ron Rowe, who was deputy director at the time, that he wanted to follow a certain crime-scene investigative protocol, he was taken off the case, according to a source within the Secret Service community familiar with the circumstances of his removal.

Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi did not immediately return RCP’s request for comment.

The discovery of the bag of cocaine posed an unusual problem for Cheatle, who resigned in the face of bipartisan pressure after the July 13 assassination attempt against Donald Trump.

Hunter Biden had a well-documented addiction to cocaine, crack cocaine, and other substances for many years but repeatedly claimed to be sober since 2021, an assertion that has prompted President Biden to often proclaim how “proud” he is of his son. While neither Joe nor Hunter Biden were at the executive mansion when the cocaine was found, it was discovered after a period when Hunter had been staying there.

Cheatle became close to the Biden family while serving on Vice President Joe Biden’s protective detail – so close that Biden tapped Cheatle for the director job in 2022, in part because of her close relationship to first lady Jill Biden.

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