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“Theres an untrue assertion that a member of the former President’s team requested additional security resources & that those were rebuffed. This is absolutely false. In fact, we added protective resources & technology & capabilities as part of the increased campaign travel tempo,” Anthony Guglielmi, the spokesman for the Secret Service had tweeted.
Now the truth is coming out.
Secret Service officials repeatedly rejected Donald Trump’s request for additional security in the two years before last weekend’s assassination attempt, The Post has learned.
The ex-president, 78, asked for more agents and magnetometers at large public events he attended, as well as extra snipers for outdoor venues, four insiders told The Washington Post, which first reported the damning revelation.
Each request was shot down by senior officials who claimed the agency lacked the resources Trump was asking for, the outlet reported.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who has faced mounting pressure to resign in the last week, doubled down on the denials in a meeting with Trump campaign leadership in Wisconsin on Monday, the insiders said.
Now the Secret Service is claiming that it had no idea it was denying the resources.
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.
And we know how that worked out.
The Secret Service denied security resources, specifically snipers, and then its top officials lied about it complete with the “sloped roof” nonsense.
MuggsSpongedice says
7-13-2024 almost became 11-22-1963
Pulling off USSS agents
Manchurian Candidate
Open air, outside, tens of thousands cheering fans and voters
Our only and last hope President Donald J. Trump
It was a set up
Another tentacle of the vile demonic coup d’etat we are in from the stolen 2020 election!
Algorithmic Analyst says
Thanks Muggs! It was a set up with plausible deniability (to Democrats anyway 🙂
They just pulled all the resources needed for security, and appointed a bunch of nincompoops, and waited for someone else to do the dirty work.
Kasandra says
Well, there are a lot of ways to lack resources. Maybe Congress didn’t appropriate enough money. Or there may have been plenty of money but it was spent improvidently, like hiring a lot of DEI consultants to “train” employees and employees to manage DEI programs. Or they had enough agents but too many were assigned to protectees with low threat profiles (e.g., Jill Biden) leaving too few to be assigned to a protectee with an enormous threat profile (e.g., Donald Trump)). As President Trump says, we’ll just have to see.
BLSinSC says
There are just too many instances of LIES being PROVEN to continue to BELIEVE that those LYING are not INVOLVED with the ASSASSINATION attempt!
Mayorkas has LIED to Congress MANY times – PRESIDENT TRUMP should ask for a SPECIAL COUNSEL to do nothing but PROSECUTE the LIARS!!
SPURWING PLOVER says
Trump needs better Secuity then this pathetic little group how about some of the Unlucky Red Shirts who always end up dying on some Planet