The Federalist’s CEO Sean Davis said in a Friday meeting with Tucker Carlson that the prospect Secret Service rifle at the now-defunct rally held by former president Donald Trump “never set foot on or inside” the tower from which a potential killer shot the then-incoming leader in the brain.  ,
” He has four times on site, puts together his program, sort of pictures out where he wants people. He never set foot on or in that building”, Davis said, noting that the prospect rifle blamed this monitoring on needing to do “paperwork”.
The” desk sniper team lead” claimed to have looked at the places where Secret Service agents were posted and spoke with one agent before going to speak with another broker, but that he had not traveled to any of the other areas of the page at the time. Rather, he said, he started “paperwork”.
” When I saw the phase, I generally knew that I had to get back and start paperwork, generally generating the systems and the images”, the lead sniper said. ” You live and die by your paperwork”.
Davis described this exchange to Carlson.  ,
” I thought you lived and died by bullets”, Carlson said.  ,
The House task force asked the lead sniper whether he felt it “would have made sense” to “walk over to one additional site]the AGR building ] to be diligent”.
” Looking back, knowing what happened to the building and that Crooks was there, absolutely, that makes total sense”. the sniper said. ” But I did not at the time think, I’ll go hit another building. I had to get going with the paperwork, I figured.
” He was so focused on his paperwork, that he never went and actually looked around”, Davis said to Carlson.
Davis also pointed out the Secret Service security perimeter was drawn around the shooter’s post — the AGR building— which was” 130, 150 yards from the president”.
“]T] hey decided … we’re going to put that outside of our security perimeter, so you can get to that area without having been screened or anything”, Davis said. ” No magnetometers, no pat downs”.
Local police were stationed in the same warehouse complex while the Secret Service prohibited the AGR building from the security perimeter. However, Davis pointed out, they were assigned to watch the crowd — not the nearby roof. Nonetheless, the Secret Service” tried to blame the local cops” following the assassination attempt.
Local police were also examining their” casement windows,” according to Davis, which open to the right or left and could have blocked their line of sight.
They were unaware that they were supposed to be observing a building’s roof, which is 180 degrees to the left, Davis said. ” I don’t believe they could have seen that if they had wanted to, just because that window opened,” she said. They’d have to get around, like almost leaning out the window, to see — which of course they’re not going to be doing, because they think their job is crowd overwatch”.
Davis relayed how local police did flag the shooter, later identified as Thomas Crooks,” as suspicious”, because he was seen with a rangefinder.  ,
The lead sniper, who had” no prior” military or sniper experience, “was the most junior guy” on the team,” Davis claimed, “does not even bother to go pick up his radio, which would have given him comms with all of the local police.”
Logan Washburn is a staff writer who writes about the integrity of elections. He is a The College Fix spring 2025 fellow. He graduated from Hillsdale College, served as Christopher Rufo’s editorial assistant, and has bylines in The Wall Street Journal, The Tennessean, and The Daily Caller. Logan is originally from Central Oregon, but he now resides in rural Michigan.
