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originally posted by: Shoshanna
originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: andy06shake
It was a major failure by the Secret Service.
How do you let a guy with a rifle get onto an elevated position 152 yards from a protectee?
Let's look at who's in charge of the SS
Oh look, she was security for Pepsi before her current position.
Another highly qualified DEI hire.
what on earth this lady worked for pepsi how does that qualify her to do director of the secret service. i have so many questions i thought secret service is a law enforcement branch of the treasury or something like don't they investigate counterfeit money too? am i wrong?
i apparently wrongly assumed the director of the secret service would have some kind of law enforcement background. wow.
diversity hire why? because she's a woman? i think if it was just a diversity hire they could have found a woman who had a law enforcement background not some random soda slinger?
originally posted by: Shoshanna
a reply to: putnam6
I was thinking that like his head is wide open what are they doing i guess i assumed they would have shields or something like that but im guessing they are supposed to be the shield with their bulletproof vests but he was wide open there. maybe they knew they iced the shooter and there was only one shooter so that's why they let Trump stand up like that, maybe he was supposed to be hunched down but still the whole thing did not inspire confidence. they all could have ended up dead in this scenario with a more competent sniper from a different location.
originally posted by: frogs453
To piggyback on the post earlier that it is possible the shooter was a follower of Nick Fuentes who has recently turned on Trump, he could also have been a fan of Alex Jones who a few months ago was interviewing Ivan Raiklin, and they discussed how assassinating Trump would actually be a good thing because then they would have free reign to assassinate President Joe Biden, Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, former Vice President Mike Pence, and several current and former politicians and government officials, media members, and others on their "target list".
Maybe the dude thought he would sacrifice himself so that the list of people could be killed? Never know with mentally ill people.
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originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: RickyD
Supposedly the secret service has "supplied Trumps detail" with technology and "other things" to aid on security, for the former president in his presidential campaign, that included drones.
Still a lone shooter was able to bypass all that and fire on Trump and the crowd.