This past weekend, an assassin’s bullet came just centimeters from taking out the leading candidate for president, quite possibly plunging an already divided nation into chaos.
On Tuesday, the Director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, offered up a variety of excuses as to why her agency incompetently allowed the shooter to get off multiple shots that struck Donald Trump and killed one of his supporters.
Her explanations for the worst security breach in decades, happening under her purview, showed a staggering level of ignorance. Her actions leading up to it were equally bungling.
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Trump’s security team was understaffed and under-resourced.
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Despite the roof of the building where the shooter camped out being an obvious point of attack, the team opted to protect the building from the inside.
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The reason she didn’t put anybody on the roof, Cheatle claims, is that it was sloped and created a safety hazard. This, despite the fact that snipers were positioned on another building with a roof sloped at a greater rate.
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Law enforcement spotted the shooter nearly 30 minutes before the attack, and multiple bystanders pointed out his presence on the roof. And still, they failed to stop him.