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2024-09-14 Government Corruption
Shocking details of 'security breakdowns' that led to attempted assassination of Trump revealed in probe by Secret Service
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] An internal investigation by the Secret Service confirms multiple catastrophic security breakdowns took place ahead of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, fired eight bullets at the crowd, striking Trump's ear and hitting three rally attendees, one fatally, on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania at a rally.

Officials, in a new report, have called the entire operation to protect the former president 'alarmingly slipshod' and its communications system having 'significant weaknesses'.

Much has already been revealed about the haphazard communication between local police but the investigation uncovered that Secret Service had no access to real-time updates by local police.

Director Kim Cheadle resigned following the shooting. The Secret Service confirmed Assistant director of the Office of Protective Operations Mike Plati resigned ahead of the report's release Friday, while senior executive John Buckley and a senior, unidentified Pittsburgh-based agent are set to retire.
When nearby authorities were contacted about a suspicious man showing up at the rally it was not heard on Secret Service Radio, which is used by the service instead of the Military-supported systems used to protect the president and vice president.

The counter-snipers who eventually took Crooks out were initially told to send photos via text message to just a single official with the Secret Service, meaning an all points bulletin could not have been sent out.

This lax activity despite the fact that the police had seen Crooks carrying a range finder and said he was behaving strangely.

No one with the Secret Service was then able to hear about the authorities attempt to find Crooks after he was spotted when Trump started his speech and never secured the roof of the AGR building he used to fire away, senior government officials told the Washington Post.

The investigation allegedly went beyond the shooting, however, with the revelation that Secret Service dragged its feet on increasing security for Trump during the campaign, despite an Iranian plot to kill American political candidates.

Already, heads have begun to role within the organization after disgraced Director Kim Cheadle resigned following the shooting.

The Secret Service confirmed Assistant director of the Office of Protective Operations Mike Plati resigned ahead of the report's release Friday, while senior executive John Buckley and a senior, unidentified Pittsburgh-based agent are set to retire.

In August, a whistleblower is claiming that the lead Secret Service agent in charge of Donald Trump's deadly Butler, Pennsylvania, rally was 'inexperienced' and 'failed to implement appropriate security protocols.'

This past week, a bombshell congressional report claims would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks was incapacitated by a local cop before he was killed by a Secret Service sniper.

Two months after Crooks shot the former president's ear at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a preliminary report from Rep. Clay Higgins offered a differing narrative to the official one pushed by the FBI.

While it was initially claimed that Crooks was shot in the head within seconds by a Secret Service sniper, Higgins' report claimed it was actually a local SWAT operator who stopped the gunman's hail of bullets.

The congressman said the local cop's shot 'hit Crooks' rifle and fragged his face/ neck/ right shoulder area from the (gun) stock breaking up', which meant Crooks was unable to keep firing before he was killed.

It comes amid mounting scrutiny on the FBI and Secret Service's investigations into the shooting, weeks after Higgins also revealed Crooks' body was mysteriously cremated with approval from the FBI after just 10 days.

A bullet clipped the former president's ear while two others were critically wounded and former firefighter, Corey Comperatore, tragically lost his life while heroically defending his family from the incoming fire.

Trump recovered from his wounds and continued on with his campaign, appearing at the Republican National Convention two days later.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-14 00:17|| || Front Page|| [11147 views ]  Top

#1 


I honestly don't think, the DC Swamp Elites will ever allow the public to see the real assassination planning picture. It will be kept hidden, just like the JFK files that are now 20+/- years overdue for release.
Posted by NN2N1 2024-09-14 04:36||   2024-09-14 04:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Both assassins turned up dead. Successful event or otherwise, that's were it was supposed to end.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-09-14 04:46||   2024-09-14 04:46|| Front Page Top

#3 The feds learned from the Mafia.
Posted by alanc 2024-09-14 08:52||   2024-09-14 08:52|| Front Page Top

#4 
It will be kept hidden, just like the JFK files that are now 20+/- years overdue for release.

In continuing violation of a law passed by Congress years ago, AFAICT. MSM never mentions this violation.
Posted by Gromble+Dribble4342 2024-09-14 10:11||   2024-09-14 10:11|| Front Page Top

#5 
claimed it was actually a local SWAT operator who stopped the gunman's hail of bullets.

There is online video showing the operator taking the shot, but the target is almost invisible from the angle of the shot. Whether he actually "stopped" anything is not clear from the video or from the evidence released by the FBI. See my other post on this.
Posted by Gromble+Dribble4342 2024-09-14 10:13||   2024-09-14 10:13|| Front Page Top

#6 
fragged his face/ neck/ right shoulder area

The congressman's statement indicates he has seen the autopsy report, which is otherwise "top secret" and hasn't been made public.
Posted by Gromble+Dribble4342 2024-09-14 10:15||   2024-09-14 10:15|| Front Page Top

#7 
the (gun) stock breaking up

The alleged "photograph" of the weapon used, from the FBI, shows no such damage. No MSM notice of this discrepancy is available anywhere. MSM doesn't deign to notice the lack of transparency in the investigation.
Posted by Gromble+Dribble4342 2024-09-14 10:17||   2024-09-14 10:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Its all fun and game chat until you learn that certain FPS games can be super mod'd to an exact location.

And a 20 year old gamer has no online presence.

But is registered Republican.

I'd want the body cindered too, especially if the picture with a lisbo nose ring is authentic.
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-09-14 10:29||   2024-09-14 10:29|| Front Page Top

#9 We were millimeters from a Civil War. We might still have one. I'll probably be a suicide bomber, although I haven't decided for which side yet.
Posted by Penguin_of_the_Best_Desert 2024-09-14 11:29||   2024-09-14 11:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Already, heads have begun to role within the organization after disgraced Director Kim Cheadle resigned following the shooting.

Better to resign than to go to jail for conspiracy to commit murder.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-09-14 12:53||   2024-09-14 12:53|| Front Page Top

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