Yesterday Donald Trump stated that he “took a bullet for democracy (and so did Corey Comperatore).” I think that is unarguable, but that was the best of the news coming out.
Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) responded to the Secret Service trying to direct blame away from itself for the massive failure last Saturday.
Senator James Lankford, R-OK, pushed back after the Secret Service blamed local law enforcement for not sweeping the roof where former President Trump’s shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was stationed.
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The lawmaker said that officials leading the investigation into Trump’s assassination attempt tried to pass the blame by saying that local law enforcement was responsible for the “outer layer” where Crooks was stationed with an AR-15-style rifle.
“They talked about the layering – the Secret Service is the first layer, the second layer is federal law enforcement of multiple different agencies, and that third layer is local law enforcement.”
“We all know that as a structure of how things work on it. But then they try to say, hey, that was the outer layer. That’s really a local law enforcement issue,” he said.
Lankford said finger-pointing from the Secret Service was a “mistake,” since they are the head agency of responsibility for coordinating all law enforcement agencies.
“That’s a mistake,” he said. “The Secret Service has responsibility for coordinating all of those things together.”
Trump said he was not warned about the loose gunman on the Pennsylvania property.
“Nobody mentioned it,” Trump, 78, told Jesse Watters in an upcoming episode of the Fox News anchor’s primetime show.
“Nobody said it was a problem,” the Republican presidential nominee said. “[They] could’ve said, ‘Let’s wait for 15, 20 minutes, 5 minutes.’ Nobody said…I think that was a mistake,” he added.
That “mistake” has been attributed in part to the “woke” nature of the Secret Service today.
Embattled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has unabashedly embraced woke initiatives at the agency ever since she took over two years ago — including recruiting at Pride events, hosting seminars on pronoun use and even bringing in a popular YouTube female daredevil to attract a more diverse workforce.
Cheatle, 53, unveiled her marching orders in the Secret Service’s 2023-2027 strategic plan, demanding agents to be “focused on achieving excellence through talent, technology and diversity,” documents reviewed by The Post show.
“We must embrace diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) across the agency,” wrote Cheatle, a longtime friend of First Lady Jill Biden who was plucked in 2022 from her previous job as global security boss at PepsiCo by President Biden to be the second woman to lead the federal agency. “DEIA must be demonstrated by all employees — leading by example — through ‘every action every day.’”
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas too exception to the allegation the barbs thrown at the women Secret Service agents despite the video evidence that abounds, but we’ll get back to him shortly as he requires significant context because of his chronic mendacity.
In a meeting with Trump officials USSS Director Kimberly Cheatle repeatedly dismissed reports that the Secret Service had denied Trump additional protection for two years but that changed very suddenly.
Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Secret Service, admitted to The Washington Post that the agency had denied Trump’s request for additional security, but claimed it had only learned about the new information in the wake of the tragedy.
Guglielmi told The Post that there were “some instances where specific Secret Service specialized units or resources were not provided,” but that the agency instead utilized state or local partners to add protections.
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Insiders told The Post that local law enforcement was recruited for the Butler, Pennsylvania rally because Secret Service headquarters denied the ex-president’s request for extra resources.
DHS Secretary also denied that Trump was denied additional security, but Western Lensman nailed that liar:
“The border is secure.”
“Biden is sharp, intensely probing, detail-oriented and focused.”
Allegations that DHS denied Trump additional security are “unequivocally false.” pic.twitter.com/ibwcHEQN5q
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) July 21, 2024
We have learned that Crooks had been surveilling Trump for months and Crooks had 3 encrypted overseas accounts.
Hmmm. Immediately one thinks of the Iran threat to Trump but it also could lead somewhere closer to home, given the kind of rhetoric being thrown around by AOC (We will do “everything and anything possible to prevent a Trump presidency”) and Chuck Schumer.
In an interview with Jesse Watters last night Trump said there are some things going on in our government to worry about.
There certainly are.
You might remember that Joe Biden has repeatedly denied Secret Service protection to RFK Jr.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he is afraid innocent lives will be harmed if President Joe Biden’s administration continues to refuse him Secret Service protection despite a myriad of death threats and multiple break-ins to his home.
“I provided them 68 pages of material death threats of, you know, actual incidents where people coming with guns to my events and trying to get into my green room with hidden weapons,” Kennedy told author and journalist Raymond Arroyo.
Does anyone notice the pattern here?
I do not believe this is all coincidence. In medicine there is a term applying to circumstances around a condition in which intervention might not affect the outcome or the condition might resolve on its own. It’s called “benign neglect.”
What’s going on above is neglect and it’s anything but benign.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 40 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 45 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter who is in the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
J. Edgar Hoover just turned over in his Grave