Secret Service’s response to the assassination attempt against Trump

A former senior official with the secret service, Donald Mihalek, breaks down the response of the Secret Service when shots were fired at former President Donald Trump.

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[williamfuller]

Investigation? What, by the same team who investigated cocaine in the White House?

[Chrissy]

Seeing how we still don't know the truth about JFK, I won't hold my breath that we will ever learn the truth here.

[Gregory]

The secret service allowed the man to get on the rooftop 400 yards away from the stage. The agency left that rooftop unattended. This alone was a massive failure.

[normann.]

20x scope and they couldn’t recognize a threat?! I call BS

[harmonc.]

So your telling me you can get away with crawling around a roof with a rifle ?

[jaysonj]

Investigation concluded. No fault determined. Nobody disciplined. Nobody reassigned. Move along, nothing further to discuss. Call it a hunch.

[andydavies]

They'll investigate themselves and undoubtedly find themselves not accountable!!

[helbertasprilla]

Thats the worst explanation of threat assessment I’ve ever heard. Dude with long hair cammo pants low crawling with civilians yelling dude on roof with gun. What you are saying is the they have to go up to the shooter and ask him if he is a shooter?

[Sneaky-Sneaky]

When several attendees saw the threat before the secret service…..WTF!

[lesanderson]

extremely weak explanation and media coverage

[bradyeplaysIndieHorror]

"Might be doing maintenance" - yeah, roof maintenance at 6pm on a Saturday during a political event. Normal stuff.

[dsboli]

A 400 foot distance, elevated, direct line of site to podium left wide open???? How!

[wayneguy]

Has the secret service ever heard of drones? My other question is why was there a secret service agent trying to use her body as a shield when she was about a foot shorter than Trump?

[PC-tcje]

You helped cause this legacy media. Shame on you and your spin on everything this guy has done and said.

[davesfishingadventuressout]

MYBE THIS GUY FROM THE SECRET SERVICE SHOULD RUN FOR PRESIDENT ALL THOSE EXCUSES SOUNDS LIKE BULL TO ME HE MAKE A GREAT POLITICIAN

[lgb.]

GS asking how could this happen after the way they demonized Trump is the most spectacular thing about this

[fingerguns]

It's really hard to believe that something like this can happen?
Haven't you and other news stations been saying he needs to be stopped by any means.

[kmonty]

BS. There were limited rooftops in the vicinity. There were limited lines of site. The Secret Service 100% failed, and this guy is covering for them. Unreal this is the response from a former agent.

[Mark-pbdn]

that's a ridiculous explanation he's covering for his buddies

[Ellis_Hugh]

Everyone assumes that this is a gross 'failure' by the Secret Service, and that's a reasonable conclusion... but the oversight was so glaring and so uncharacteristic of these elite professionals, combined with the fact that this supposed rando was certain enough that the firing position would be vacated and unobserved that he planned ahead and showed up with a weapon, combined with the repeated denials by the by Biden's Department of Homeland Security for increased funds despite repeated credible threats against Trump, combined with the fact that civilians witnessed the shooter getting into position and spent several MINUTES trying to alert the authorities but were ignored... well, it starts to look a lot like something else.