No failure, regardless of how monumental or catastrophic, is ever so bad that President Joe Biden and his lieutenants wo n’t try to spin it into some kind of success. No Democratic candidate will always acknowledge failure, so there is never any justification for when things turn out unbelievably bad.
Witness , the sight of Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday defending U. S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who is facing , a growing chorus of calls to resign, and declaring he has” 100 percentage” trust in her and her company in the midst of an assassination attempt against previous President Donald Trump on Saturday at a rally in eastern Pennsylvania.  ,
” What you saw on level on Saturday, with respect to people putting their individual lives at risk for the safety of another, is precisely what the American people may see every single day”, he said — adding, in a note of immoral self-aggrandizement,” It is what I really do”.
The president himself, in a Monday interview with NBC News,  , echoed Mayorkas ‘ line , about individual agents putting their lives on the line and then said it was an “open question” whether they did what they needed to do to prevent the assassination attempt.
But of course, they did , not do  , what needed to be done, otherwise it would n’t have happened. The failure of the Secret Service in this regard is mind-boggling in its completeness. There is no way they could have succeeded in any greater way if they had merely acted in vain and allowed the shooter to discharge his magazine at Trump. The Biden administration, however, claims to still have” 100 percent confidence” in the Secret Service and attributes this to an exemplary success.
All this comes as new, jaw-dropping details of the Secret Service’s failure come to light. Olivia Rinaldi of CBS News , posted on X Monday evening , that snipers were stationed inside the building where the would-be assassin staged his attack. They saw him beforehand, outside looking up at the roof. He left and came back and they , watched him use a range finder. They emailed a photo of him to the command post with it. He returned with a backpack a third time before disappearing behind the building’s back.
Keep in mind that video footage from rally attendees shows that many people witnessed the shooter well before he fired his shotgun into Trump in the ear. They captured it on camera. In the video clips, people yell,” He’s on the roof”! ” He’s got a gun”!
This might be the most telegraphed attack in history, in terms of sniper assassination attempts. The Secret Service did n’t take any action until after the shooter fired five rounds, including one that struck the former ( and likely future ) president in the face and another that left Corey Comperatore dead.
Surely Mayorkas knows all this, which means there’s only one reason he has” 100 percent confidence” in the Secret Service: They allowed the assassination attempt, or at least issued an order to stand down until the would-be assassin fired first. That’s the only reasonable explanation here, and if it’s true, then it’s one of the greatest scandals — and acts of treason — in American history.
But for the sake of argument, let’s say it was just a monumental failure, a display of incompetence that beggars belief. In that case, we see a pattern here we’ve seen throughout the Biden presidency, in which every failure, no matter how objective it is, no matter how mind-bogglingly complete, is somehow chalked up to success by Biden and his band of incompetents.
Actually, the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan was a logistical feat! Who can forget Gen. Mark Milley’s boast about how many people were evacuated in such a short amount of time and how many thousands of Afghans were left behind? Even after 13 American soldiers were killed by a suicide bombing at the Kabul Airport, he continued to make the point and Biden repeated it.
Or take the ongoing, never-ending border invasion under Biden. Mayorkas has insisted for the better part of three years that there is no crisis, that the border is under control, and that actually, the men and women of Border Patrol are doing a great job under very difficult circumstances, and blah blah blah it’s not a failure, it’s a success. Never mind that, after being released from federal custody, more than 10 million plus illegal immigrants have flooded into the nation under the leadership of Biden.
In all of these situations, Biden officials behave as though the American people are simply too ignorant to acknowledge these successes for what they are. Afghanistan was a feat of logistics. The border is a feat of administrative processing. The individual agents made a masterful deed in the assassination attempt.
And that’s another thing: They always hide behind the poor saps who have to carry out their insane, disastrous policies. No one doubts the bravery of the individual soldiers in Afghanistan, Border Patrol agents along the Rio Grande, or Secret Service agents who stormed Pennsylvania’s stage. We doubt the ability of the people in charge to distinguish between success and failure.
Every failure is actually a success, according to them, which implies there is never accountability because nothing ever goes wrong. Imagine the assurance that the American people would have if Biden revealed that Mayorkas and the U.S. Secret Service Director were being asked to resign in response to the Trump assassination attempt. That would actually give Americans some assurance that their leaders are still bound by reality, or at least that they are occasionally forced to accept and act on it.
But instead, we have an unstable admixture of incompetence and malice — and an enraging absence of accountability.
