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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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Secret Service Takes Full Responsibility for Assassination Attempt on Trump

Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe said on Friday the agency takes full responsibility for the tragic events at former President Donald Trump’s rally last month, pledging changes such as flying drones.

“This was a mission failure,” said Rowe at a press conference in Washington.

Rowe replaced Kimberly Cheatle as director of the Secret Service amid intense scrutiny after she resigned in the wake of the attempted assassination of Trump, which saw one rallygoer killed and two more injured in Butler, Pennsylvania, last month.

Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, was struck at the tip of his ear by a bullet fired by 20-year-old gunman Thomas Crooks while he spoke at a campaign rally. Crooks, who fired several bullets, was killed by a Secret Service counter-sniper.

But agents should have had eyes on the roofs and other vantage points, Rowe said. And despite offers by local enforcement to fly drones, the Secret Service didn’t put one up.

That will change, Rowe said.

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It Was a Set-Up: Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Caught in Another Lie, Was Personally Responsible for Cuts in Security Division Responsible for Threat Assessments

It was a set-up.

Jesse Watters on FOX News caught Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe in another lie regarding the security detail for President Donald Trump.

Nearly three weeks ago President Trump was shot in the ear and nearly assassinated at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Since that time the Secret Service and FBI have refused to be straight with the American people on what was really going on that day.

We still don’t know why the Secret Service and FBI allowed a young would-be assassin to fire off eight shots at President Trump before he was taken out. What is especially troubling is that the security at the rally identified Crooks 90 minutes before the shooting started and acting strange and Crooks was also spotted running along the roof of the building minutes before he started firing at the president and his supporters killing one and injuring three.

Acting Director Rowe said all assets were approved for the Trump rally. But a whistleblower has stepped forward and revealed that it was Rowe himself who cut assets from President Trump’s detail.

Senator Josh Hawley posted on Rowe’s role in cuts to the USSS earlier today.

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Lead Secret Service Agent Called Off Security from Building Roof Before Sniper Shot President Trump – And She Is Still Deciding Security and Advance Teams at Rallies

Jesse Watters on Wednesday night revealed that the top Secret Service official who blew the security at the Trump Butler rally is still calling the shots and approving advance teams at Trump rallies. The female agent is still calling the shots at the Trump rallies despite failing in her one job – to keep the President safe and secure in public.

It appears that there is no accountability in the US government today. You can even fail a security detail and get the former president shot in the head and keep your job.

And we still do not know her name or the names of the other officials who set up the situation that allowed President Trump and others to be shot, despite knowing the situation was not secure.

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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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