in the Secret Service is a pretty cushy job most of the time. And they have donuts!
Cheatle’s explanation was absolutely ridiculous, and will rightly live in infamy for many years. It was such a patently self-serving bunch of hooey! Totally obvious. Only a HUGE idiot believed her–even total fools knew she was full of crap!
How on earth was the Secret Service so incompetent that they missed what ordinary Joes noticed, even after it was pointed out to them? I really don’t want to think the worst of these folks. But when “Bubba” puts down his beer, belches loudly, and then goes and does does a better job than you…
And how was there no accountability–Cheatle was not fired! And that is just galling. WHAT?
The failed assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, one of the worst security fiascoes in American history, reflects a core truth that fuels the MAGA movement and makes the case for reelecting its leader to the Oval Office: Our leading institutions are so corrupted and incompetent that the purported experts who run them cannot or will not execute their most basic functions. [emphasis added]
… Counter-snipers at one point saw the shooter scanning for them to identify their position, with the Secret Service briefing lawmakers that the shooter was spotted with a rangefinder 40 minutes before the shooting. Twenty minutes before the assassination attempt and 10 minutes before Trump took the stage, Secret Service saw the shooter on the roof of the building from where he would fire. This was a building authorities reportedly occupied but did not secure.
I don’t flippin’ care about diversity in security forces. What I want is competence.
But we have a pretty good idea what actually happened:
Look, I don’t know if it was garden-variety incompetence, criminal negligence, or deliberate action. But it was certainly one of those!