The Secret Service missing this post assassination attempt press conference, and the FBI going ahead with it without them, is one of the most striking instances of federal law endorcement dysfunction since that time no law enforcement agency held a press conference after Jan 6 for like two weeks.
You both make good points, and also imagining this exchange as a conversation between two adorable doggos is one of the first laughs I’ve had since this whole thing.
A video filmed by a bystander and verified by The Post shows the body of a man lying on the roof of a building a little more than 400 feet from where Trump was speaking. The person who shot at the former president fired from that roof, according to a person familiar with preliminary information.
hastily organized and run press conferences give assfaces like alex jones gaps, and they seem small at the time but fuckers like him just drive trucks through them. not repeating the question is such a sure fire way to let them paint words around the answer as they want for example. this was bad.
Maybe the Secret Service is simply not all that good at their jobs?
If your job is to secure an event and you don't, isn't that kind of like a failure? After all, what it comes down to is that they are essentially cops, and the shine of assumed competency after this and J6 means questions, right?
There were four counter sniper teams on site and MORE security than is normal (not less). This wasn’t lack of resources. According to one report I read, several attendees saw the kid climbing up the bldg with the rifle and informed security several minutes before the shots were fired.
If the reports I've seen are true, the Secret Service did an inexplicably bad job.
Supposedly the shooter was seen crawling around with a rifle for some time on an unsecured rooftop overlooking the stage, only 400' away.
For comparison, the world-record javelin throw is only 20% shorter than that.
I'm not suggesting a world-record javelin thrower is a threat to be planned against, but this guy was overlooking the stage and was literally within throwing distance of it. Maybe a javelin was the wrong choice: a baseball has been thrown half again farther than this shooter was from the target.
Funny enough, I had the chance to chat with a federal sniper who used my floor as a nest during a VP Biden speech in the city. Covering all the sight lines is bloody impossible in a city like that, but you try anyway. There’s no excuse in this case.
Secret Service hasn’t been shit since they took it out of treasury and threw it into the bureaucratic mess of managers fighting for funds at Homeland. It was an extended frat party during Obama
