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This administration is such a joke. Incompetence at every level due to DEI hiring practices, and nobody willing to take responsibility............a longtime tactic of Democrats.
The Secret Service director, Kimberly A. Cheatle, set off the back-and forth-in an interview with ABC News on Tuesday morning, her first public appearance since the assassination attempt. She said that local officers were inside the building used by the gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, on Saturday evening. If so, that meant the gunman could have scaled a building even as snipers were stationed inside it.
“There was local police in that building — there was local police in the area that were responsible for the outer perimeter of the building,” Cheatle said.
Several local law enforcement agencies immediately put out statements saying they were not in the same building as the gunman. That led to the Secret Service making a statement on social media saying that it valued local law enforcement.
While local law enforcement officers are used for additional security in an event like a campaign rally, it was the Secret Service’s job to determine the security plan and keep the protectee — in this case, Trump — safe.
“The safety and security of a protectee falls on the shoulders of the Secret Service, period,” said John Cohen, a former law enforcement official who has worked with the Secret Service for years at both the state and federal levels.
“You have a former president who was close to being assassinated,” Cohen said. “There’s nothing more illustrative of the threat that we’re facing.”
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The Secret Service director, Kimberly A. Cheatle, set off the back-and forth-in an interview with ABC News on Tuesday morning, her first public appearance since the assassination attempt. She said that local officers were inside the building used by the gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, on Saturday evening. If so, that meant the gunman could have scaled a building even as snipers were stationed inside it.
“There was local police in that building — there was local police in the area that were responsible for the outer perimeter of the building,” Cheatle said.
Several local law enforcement agencies immediately put out statements saying they were not in the same building as the gunman. That led to the Secret Service making a statement on social media saying that it valued local law enforcement.
While local law enforcement officers are used for additional security in an event like a campaign rally, it was the Secret Service’s job to determine the security plan and keep the protectee — in this case, Trump — safe.
“The safety and security of a protectee falls on the shoulders of the Secret Service, period,” said John Cohen, a former law enforcement official who has worked with the Secret Service for years at both the state and federal levels.
“You have a former president who was close to being assassinated,” Cohen said. “There’s nothing more illustrative of the threat that we’re facing.”
At Trump Rally, Local Police and Gunman Were in Same Warehouse Complex
BUTLER, Pa. — While a gunman was climbing onto the roof of a warehouse less than 500 feet from where former President Donald Trump was speaking Saturday, three law enforcement snipers were positioned inside the same complex of buildings, looking for anything amiss in the crowd. The director of...
