Did you know that the Secret Service screwed up in Butler on July 13th?
Who knew? I didn't. Did you?
Secret Service Director is speaking to the media at a press conference about a new 5-page interim report on the Butler, PA assassination attempt on President Trump.
What did we learn?
Secret Service procedures didn't work and they need a "new paradigm." Whoa! Who could have guessed?
BREAKING: A Secret Service probe faults communication failures between law enforcement before the Trump rally assassination attempt in July. https://t.co/1FnMLwFYr1
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 20, 2024
What crap. Total, complete bulls**t. Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe got up in front of the country and said nothing we didn't already know, revealed nothing about what is happening behind the scenes, and is gaslighting us in the most obvious ways.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) September 20, 2024
And it took the Secret Service sixty days plus to produce this pile of nothing while stonewalling Congress enough to get even Democrats furious at them.
A five-page document summarizing the Secret Service report’s key conclusions finds fault with both local and federal law enforcement, underscoring the cascading and wide-ranging failings that preceded the July 13 shooting at a Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally where Trump was wounded in the ear by gunfire.
Though the failed response has been well-documented through congressional testimony, news media investigations and other public statements, the report being released Friday marks the Secret Service’s most formal attempt to catalog the errors of the day and is being released amid fresh scrutiny following Sunday’s arrest in Florida of a man who authorities say wanted to kill Trump.
“It’s important that we hold ourselves to account for the failures of July 13th and that we use the lessons learned to make sure that we do not have another mission failure like this again,” Secret Service acting director Ronald Rowe Jr. said in a statement accompanying the release of the report into the agency’s own internal investigation.
Ronald Rowe should be fired, obviously, but he should be just the first of many, up to and including Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas who is his boss and who has been subjected to almost no scrutiny on the matter.
Among the problems: Some local police at the site were unaware of the existence of two communications centers on the grounds, meaning officers did not know that the Secret Service were not receiving their radio transmission.
Law enforcement also communicated vital information outside the Secret Service’s radio frequencies. As officers searched for Crooks before the shooting, details were being transmitted “via mobile/cellular devices in staggered or fragmented fashion” instead of through the Secret Service’s own network.
Blah blah blah.
How seriously has the Secret Service taken this matter?
🚨 Acting Secret Service Director Rowe: “I have NOT asked for anybody to retire”
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 20, 2024
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Not at all, and perhaps there is a reason for that, although I won't speculate except to say that perhaps Rowe doesn't think the "failures" were failures at all. Make of that what you will.
Rowe seems to think that things are going swimmingly now, despite a second attempt on Trump's life. Perhaps this is why nobody has been let go.
🚨Are you kidding me?
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) September 20, 2024
Despite an attempted assassin being able to stick a scoped-rifle through a fence on President Trump’s golf course, Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. said “the procedures work, the redundancies work.”
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Sure, he promises that people are being held accountable, but as far as I can tell, that is meaningless verbal pablum. Talk of new paradigms and accountability means nothing, as does this report.
🚨 I am sick of hearing Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe promise a "paradigm shift" in presidential protection!
— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) September 20, 2024
After TWO assassination attempts, President Trump does not have time to wait for a "paradigm shift."
While rank and file Secret Service have done incredible… pic.twitter.com/xfNxl7vSi4
The Secret Service is stonewalling the Congressional investigation, and I fear that the reason is not simply bureaucratic inertia or even a$$-covering. None of us can trust anything coming from Homeland Security--and the Secret Service is part of Homeland Security--so we need an outside investigation that Ronald Rowe doesn't want to happen.
Even Democrats see it.
Today the Homeland Security Committee UNANIMOUSLY adopted my bill demanding Secret Service & DHS stop stonewalling and give us ALL the documents and information related to the Trump assassination attempt in Butler.
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) September 18, 2024
We're one step closer to the truth pic.twitter.com/pwfk4EXxAM
You rarely get unanimous votes on sensitive topics, but there is unanimity that something is fishy here. Democrats and Republicans, House and Senate.
WOW — Dem Sen. Blumenthal on oversight into Trump assassination attempt:
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 18, 2024
"I am reaching the point of total outrage because the response from DHS has been totally lacking. It's tantamount to stonewalling." pic.twitter.com/85lALo46pY
Five pages of nothing after two months of stonewalling and a second assassination attempt that Director Rowe claims is evidence that their procedures work.
Shameful.
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