The Secret Service is hiding in the bunker. They
haven’t held a press conference on the July 13 assassination attempt
against former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. There’s
been a code of silence on his harrowing and historic event, and we know
why: they got busted for peddling a lie. Shocker—but we have another
Biden-era scandal emerging, one where the agency appears to have hidden
from the public because there was no spinning what was inevitably going
to be asked by the media: the allegation that the Biden Department of
Homeland Security denied requests for more resources. After initially
denying it, the agency finally had to admit this was true.
The Washington Post and New York Times confirmed it. However, it was
The Federalist’s Sean Davis who first reported that a source told him
this was the case in the initial aftermath of the assassination attempt
against the former president. It only adds to the incompetence of this
administration, along with dousing the fires of a cover-up. At this
point, there are too many coincidences, security failures, and now lies
to dismiss this narrative outright (via NYT):
The
Secret Service acknowledged on Saturday that it had turned down
requests for additional federal resources sought by former President
Donald J. Trump’s security detail in the two years leading up to his
attempted assassination last week, a reversal from earlier statements by
the agency denying that such requests had been rebuffed.
Almost
immediately after a gunman shot at Mr. Trump from a nearby warehouse
roof while he spoke at a rally in Butler, Pa., last weekend, the Secret
Service faced accusations from Republicans and anonymous law enforcement
officials that it had turned down requests for additional agents to
secure Mr. Trump’s rallies.
“There’s an untrue assertion that a
member of the former president’s team requested additional resources and
that those were rebuffed,” Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the
Secret Service, said last Sunday, the day after the shooting.
[…]
On
Saturday, Mr. Guglielmi acknowledged that the Secret Service had turned
down some requests for additional federal security assets for Mr.
Trump’s detail. Two people briefed on the matter, who spoke on condition
of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly,
confirmed that the Trump campaign had been seeking additional resources
for the better part of the time that Mr. Trump had been out of office.
The denied requests for additional resources were not specifically for
the rally in Butler, Mr. Guglielmi said.
U.S. officials
previously said the Secret Service had enhanced security for the former
president before the Butler rally because it had received information
from U.S. intelligence agencies about a potential Iranian assassination
plot against Mr. Trump.
[…]
The service never held or took
part in a public briefing the night of the shooting, while other law
enforcement officials held a news conference a few hours after the fact.
The service did not hold a public briefing to answer questions in the
week after the assassination attempt.
The Washington Post added:
Top
officials at the U.S. Secret Service repeatedly denied requests for
additional resources and personnel sought by Donald Trump’s security
detail in the two years leading up to his attempted assassination at a
rally in Pennsylvania last Saturday, according to four people familiar
with the requests.
Agents charged with protecting the former
president requested magnetometers and more agents to screen attendees at
sporting events and other large public gatherings Trump attended, as
well as additional snipers and specialty teams at other outdoor events,
said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe
sensitive security discussions. The requests, which have not been
previously reported, were sometimes denied by senior officials at the
agency, who cited various reasons, including a lack of resources at an
agency that has long struggled with staffing shortages, they said.
Those
rejections — in response to requests that were several times made in
writing — led to long-standing tensions that pitted Trump, his top aides
and his security detail against Secret Service leadership, as Trump
advisers privately fretted that the vaunted security agency was not
doing enough to protect the former president.
The Secret Service,
after initially denying turning down requests for additional security,
is now acknowledging some may have been rejected. The revelation comes
as agency veterans say the organization has been forced to make
difficult decisions amid competing demands, a growing list of protectees
and limited funding.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is set to be grilled on
Monday by House Oversight. How was the rooftop where shooter Thomas
Matthew Crooks, 20, fired shots at Trump was left unprotected? Why
wasn’t it swept before the rally? Why wasn’t a Secret Service drone in
the air? How could Crooks fly his drone around the rally area before the
attack? Finally, Trump says he wasn’t informed of the threat against
him before the rally, adding the Secret Service never told him before he
took the stage. The agency was aware of a threat against the former
president ten minutes before the start of the event:
The Secret Service got caught lying.
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