???? The SS tried to dissuade Trump from giving a speech at the Butler rally, because they knew it was a big, outdoor area that would be difficult to secure. Even the SS’s budget and manpower have finite limits. Of course, the SS could not over rule Trump, so they did the best they could with what they had, and relied on local Leos to patch up the rest. It seems to me that if there were rogue agents who actually wished Trump harm, they would have said “Sure, go ahead and speak at the Butler rally! It will be safe! Just leave it to us, big guy!” Wink wink, nudge nudge.

In all, it seems far more likely to be too little resources stretched too thin in an area that was too big and too dangerous, not actual malice.

You are kidding, right? If the SS had done their job and secured the AGR building with their own agents, there would have been no shots. Instead they relied on local law enforcement who had little training in protective details.
How did Crooks know to take his shot from the only location hidden from the SS sniper team whose job it was to surveil that direction? Why did the two local LEO’s tasked with watching the roof Crooks took his shot leave their post.
At best the Secret Service displayed an incredible level of complacency/incompetence.

To quote the Robot Devil: “You can’t have people just ANNOUNCE how they feel! That makes me feel ANGRY!” 😉

Well, I stand corrected then.

However, the SS investigates hundreds of assassination threats every year, yet the only ones we hear about are (usually) the ones that take place on camera, like President Reagan’s in 1981 or former President Trump this year at Butler. They almost never talk about the plots they have foiled, since a) it shows how they work, which teaches other would be gunmen how to outwit them, and b) it inspires copycats.

I think it’s a bit unfair to blame the SS, especially since they warned Trump that the Butler location was dangerous and would be hard to secure. They warned him about his golf course too, since it was public, close to a public highway and full of trees, hedges and bushes that could conceal an assassin, but Trump blew them off and insisted his golf courses were safe.

Of course, Trump has to campaign and he has to appear at rallies, so the SS will have to place him behind bullet proof glass (or better yet, in something like the Popemobile where he is fully protected.) He doesn’t have to play golf, or at least, he doesn’t have to play it at public courses. If he doesn’t want to play on an indoor golf simulator at Mar-a-Lago, then maybe could take a page out of former President Obama’s book and play only on military golf courses which have been searched and secured in advance. In this instance, an ounce of prevention now could save everyone a mountain of regret later.

Doocy, after KJP AGAIN calls Trump a “threat.”

“How many more assass*nation attempts on Trump until the President, Vice President, and you pick a different word other than ‘threat?'”

“Your question is incredibly dangerous.”

They’re not going to stop.

https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1836128893855551540

They want him dead.

Constantly insisting that one of the candidates on the ballot this November, for whom tens of millions of Americans will freely vote, is a “threat to democracy” is actually a far greater threat to democracy. Trump can’t even come close to threatening democracy like these ppl do.

https://x.com/johnddavidson/status/1836126622300426727

Please see short White House Press conference video clip at link for context.

Two days. Two days and she’s at this shit from the White House podium.