Speaking during a very important interview on Donald Trump Jr.’s “Triggered” podcast, current conservative podcast commentator and veteran Secret Service agent Dan Bongino spoke out about the alleged security failures that occurred in the run-up to the horrific assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump that occurred on Saturday, July 13.
During the interview with Don Jr. and Tucker Carlson, Bongino, who served in the Secret Service for a dozen years, spoke about the various issues that somehow occurred and seemingly enabled would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks to reach his rooftop perch and open fire on the former president as he spoke.
Speaking about the rooftop issue and why he thinks something went wrong there, Bongino said, “That post, according to my source, that roof was supposed to be a police post. It was supposed to be someone there. They’re now making up excuses, saying the pitch of the roof… my source says to me, no one knows why the post didn’t show up.”
Mr. Bongino also spoke about what is going on; according to his sources have informed him that the director of the Secret Service has apparently been told to keep quiet on the matter to keep her job. He said, “I was also told that the USSS director has been given instructions from the administration and the DHS secretary: ‘If you wanna keep your job, you’ll keep your mouth shut about this.'”
Director Cheatle, for reference, recently issued a much-mocked explanation for why the rooftop wasn’t covered, saying, “That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof.” She added, “And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside.”
Bongino, in any case, said, speaking about the roof and the possible consequences for Trump, said, “They’re not putting that out there. But if you get those site post logs and those police instructions and it was a post on there and they didn’t show up and no one checked, someone could have got your dad killedl.” Bongino added, “Within millimeters.”
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Bongino recently said, speaking about the assassination attempt, “You’re telling me the best technology you have was deployed and you missed a shooter 130 yards? Say it was 200 yards. The Secret Service CS team, Pete, the counter-sniper team? And I’m not sure those two guys are Secret Service. We have to remember that we don’t always, when we go to New York sometimes with high-level protectees we’ll use NYPD ESU counter-sniper. So I’m not really sure.”
He continued, “Either way, they’d still be briefed in. The question we have to ask is, if that’s the best technology we have, and we had a CS team up there with a shooter that, you know, we’re trained out to a thousand yards in the Secret Service with the counter-sniper team. How did they miss someone at most, you know, one-fifth of the way there? It doesn’t make any sense.”
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