Former senior Secret Service agent discusses response to Trump rally incident

Donald Mihalek, a former senior special agent for the U.S. Secret Service, gives his analysis on the agency's response to the possible assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

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[jkgkj]

Did their job? Did their job? They failed miserably

[MrYzfman]

After watching eyewitness reports literally a half dozen eye witnesses telling the " police" that a guy with a gun was up there and they were pointing at him trying to get the attention of the secret service for a solid 2 minutes and they done nothing but watch the shooter through their scopes until after shots were fired. It makes no sense.

[afterdark]

Law enforcement was informed of the shooter before shots were fired. This is an absolute failure.

[ccook]

How was he even allowed on the roof? Where was the secret service? Massive failure

[joddyleaks]

Let's trust the FBI to investigate their own crimes 😂😂😂😂😂

[vincentbugalia]

You say that was working? The shooter was less than three hundred feet from his target. This is either incompetence on the part of Secret Service or a degree of involvement.

[reyrandy]

there was civilians telling the cops there was a guy in the roof they did nothing until shots fired 😡😡😡WTF YOU FAILED

[zkwsisn]

If they did their job, he would never got a shot off, especially 8 shots.WTF

[Agben]

Why did they not see the guy before hand? How did a guy get on the roof with a gun?

[uokbrvn]

I don't get it. The roof was 130 meters from the stage with a clear line of sight. How could they not have secured the buildings so close to the event?

[dave]

Comment section :
"I thought it was coordinated as soon as I saw how slowly the secret service and swat I was PSD(Personal security detail) for a BN commander and EOD on occasions in Iraq. There's NO WAY 20O5 had better security in Iraq than a former president running for reelection... this whole thing stinks...."

[viveviveka]

The most obvious, elementary sniper location. Total fail.

[OhiosCheesehead]

The "counter sniper" waited until the assassin fired. This is either an unbelievable failure on the part of usss or it was planned and the idiot just missed his shot. Allowing the swamp to protect Trump was always bound to end up like this.

[nobis]

Are you kidding me??? Law enforcement "Counter snipers" didn't see a guy with a weapon on a building 130 yards away???? Total incompetence!!

[Lazar_]

THEY Did their job?!? Are u MAD? Guy got shot in EAR, one person died and 2 in critical state... my guy... this is a massive L

[WhiteUnicorn]

Look on g maps. Where the ss guy behind Trump has his scope is seemingly directly at the shooter. The same shooter than many people told police and ss about several minutes prior. (Interviews online, YouTube, etc. BBC, CNN, etc). If so many people told of this shady guy scaling the building to the roof, to a position that will have been secured under normal circumstances, then they should have pulled Trump immediately. I can say right now that incompetence does not come close to explaining this. If I were a millionaire, I'd put 98% of all my money on betting that ss/police, or someone in charge there had something to do with this. Shooter had perfect line of sight; multiple public warned ss and police; ss had him in their sights; choppers could've seen him IF just swept the rooftops, (and why wouldn't they?).. There's a problem here. I've never jumped on something so quickly, but seeing what I've seen, and looking into what I have, I'm very confident there's a sinister reason Trump wasn't pulled off the stage; there's a malicious reason the ss failed to open fire before the first shots; there's corruption behind police and ss seemingly fobbing off all reports from the public, (including them literally pointing to the shooter's position).. No. This wasn't a lapse in security. This was orchestrated. Consider the ss having weeks to prep security for this. Why wasn't the roof secured? Not even concealed from the podium! The gunman would've had to know that rooftop was accessible, and in sight of where the podium would be. He'd have to know it would be clear of security. He'd have to think the spotters would just leave him alone, and the choppers would not respond, and ss/police would not involve themselves in his position, despite blatantly scaling the building in front of so many, carrying a rifle. Check it out on Google maps. It's f u c king insane. Ss absolutely definitely would not leave this unsecured like that, THEN not respond once the threat/position is repeatedly identified. All they had to do was cover Trump - pull him from the stage.

[paulwestmoreland]

Absolute failure by all agencies involved.

[jimtwodogs]

The way the return fire was timed, it would appear the Secret Service had eyes on him when he fired.

[KenMac-uivb]

Oh look, ABC is going to tell us how concerned they are.

[josiahlomas]

The secret service failed miserable today....