One of the worst safety fiascoes in British history, the failed assassination attempt against former president Donald Trump, reflects a fundamental truth that drives the MAGA movement and makes event for reelecting its head to the Oval Office: Our leading institutions are thus corrupt and incompetent that the allegedly trained professionals who control them cannot or will not be able to carry out their most fundamental duties.
The Secret Service has the distinctive duty to safeguard the lives and limbs of the people who are being treated like such. On July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, it failed that goal in a magnificent clothing.
Incomprehensibly, the most effective and powerful security equipment in the history of mankind allowed a would-be murderer to step up a stone’s throw from the previous leader and shoot him in the neck with a gun while maintaining his obedience.
Well in advance of the tragic event, the gunman’s kids called law enforcement wary he was missing. One wonders why they were distressed over the developed man’s locations. According to reports, authorities discovered the shooter’s mirrorless about three days prior to the shooting. An afternoon before the shooting, the Secret Service began tracking the gunman as a “person of interest”.
Counter-snipers witnessed the gunman scouting for them at one place, with the Secret Service disclosing that the shooter had been seen with a prism 40 minutes prior to the shooting. The Secret Service saw the sniper on the roof of the building from where he would fire 20 minutes before the death test and 10 days before Trump took the stage. Officials claimed this building was occupied but did not secure.
Despite the risk, Donald Trump was permitted to go on period. And right before the shooting, screaming citizens spotted the gunman attempting to shoot from the ceiling.
After the shooter was thrown out, Trump was once more exposed as a goal by agents too quick to support him on stage. His angry fist-raising and” Fight” names, body dripping down his face, and his classic image will endure in American history forever. What if one or more extra shooters had been present? Lastly, safety forced the former president to a car return where an agent manning her gun struggled to holster it.
Whether the surveillance equipment failed to properly program, tool, speak, or act, this was an absolute disaster that could have plunged the country into chaos. The Secret Service is blatantly incompetent despite the brave and professional actions of some agents on the ground, which is probably the worst explanation.
One might get that impression not just from the events of July 13 but also from a response from a Secret Service director ( picked apparently out of favor by the Bidens ), who claimed that agents might not have been perched on the roof’s” slope” from which the shooter fired because of its” slope.”
The Secret Service has suffered from scandals ranging from White House fence jumpings to unscreened and unvetted individuals approaching presidents to carousing agents in Cartagena, according to history. Congressional investigators were already looking into allegations of agents receiving inadequate training. A Secret Service “in crisis” had been stretched thin by mission creep, according to a 2015 House report.
In the meantime, the Secret Service has been politicized, likely to harm its mission, by putting in place DEI policies that favor hiring female agents over the most qualified ones, regardless of sex.
Americans must consider whether there were logically many possible failures that led to Donald Trump’s nearly assassination, and what weight might we give circumstantial evidence suggesting something more sinister actually took place.
The loner shooter, who allegedly attempted to kill Trump two days before the RNC, is one of the circumstantial proof that he is a registered Republican and has a small donation to leftists. Authorities claim they are unable to explain why he was shot. The Gen Zer somehow lacks a digital footprint, but what has been leaked in the media suggests that he had looked for Republican and Democratic-related content.
So, are we to believe he was an equal-opportunity assassin? And authorities still believe he had acted alone before conducting relevant interviews and examination of his equipment. This seems odd.
No one has yet been fired for the security breaches that occurred, and we have seen the Secret Service thwart congressional oversight and at least once point the finger at local authorities for the catastrophic errors that occurred. An FBI and DHS both hostile to Donald Trump are leading the investigation rather than assigning an independent arbitrator the task of leading the investigation into the government’s failures or putting meaningful controls in place to ensure fairness and impartiality to the investigation.
If authorities were engaged in a cover-up — and granted, a cover-up of failures would certainly be on-brand — would they operate any differently?
In general, the national security and law enforcement apparatus has been at the forefront of efforts to legalize and politicize Donald Trump following Russiagate. The security state will have to explain how it could have failed so severely and in so many ways, and why we should believe it, to quell conspiratorial concerns.
The deep state, which has targeted Trump and millions of other dissident Americans for years, failed to protect the former president’s life last Saturday, whether due to gross incompetence or corruption.
He would be dead because of its shortcomings if it were n’t for a last-second turn of the head and G-d’s hand. These flaws demonstrated that Trump’s criticism of the administrative state was genuinely accurate.
The question is now whether the American people will consider it appropriate to reelect the man who has fought those institutions for nearly a decade as the best and only remedy for the institutional deterioration that threatened his survival and threatened the very survival of our nation.
Ben Weingarten is editor at large for RealClearInvestigations. He is a senior contributor to The Federalist, columnist at Newsweek, and a contributor to the New York Post and Epoch Times, among other publications. Subscribe to his newsletter at weingarten. substack .com, and follow him on Twitter: @bhweingarten.
