Trump Assassination Attempt: Local Law Enforcement, D.A. Blast Secret Service ‘Ridiculous’ Remarks
“They were not posted at a location that would overlook the roof. Monitoring that roof was not their assignment.”
Pat Young, the chief of detectives for Beaver County, slammed Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe’s comments in a Senate hearing over the lack of communication on the day of former President Donald Trump’s rally.
The rally where Thomas Matthew Crooks shot Trump, killed Corey Comperatore, and injured James Copenhaver and David Dutch.
Every time local law enforcement releases new information, it shows no communication from the Secret Service (USSS), and the agency quickly denies it and pushes back.
For instance, Pennsylvania SWAT said the USSS never held a briefing with them or others before the rally. The members never spoke to them until after the shooting.
I cannot stress this enough. It’s unbelievable how many planes with a precise line of sight to Trump had nothing blocking them.
“Somehow, that we should have had a line of sight on not only the crowd but the area to the side of the building where the shooter was eventually located is kind of ridiculous,” Young told NewsNation on Tuesday. “The ability to redeploy to another area is also kind of this ridiculous notion that’s out there that somehow our guys, despite guidance from Secret Service, could somehow relocate to a better vantage point is almost laughable in some regards.”
Young then told Fox News that he assumed the Secret Service gave his unit guidance.
“They were in place by Butler County ESU [Emergency Services Unit], which I assume was with the approval of Secret Service. Their assignments that day (were) to be clearly defined and in no uncertain terms,” explained Young. “Their areas included the entry control point, the area before and after the magneton monitor and then the area in front of the stage. Those are all within the interior and secure perimeter as defined by the Secret Service. That was their locations … and their priority.”
Rowe told the Senate he couldn’t understand why no one secured the roof where Crooks shot up the rally:
“What I saw made me ashamed. As a career law enforcement officer and a 25-year Secret Service veteran, I cannot defend why that roof was not better secured,” he said.
“We assumed that the state and locals had it,” Rowe added. “We made an assumption that there was going to be uniformed presence out there, that there would be sufficient eyes to cover that, that there was going to be counter-sniper teams” in the building from whose roof Crooks fired shots.
Rowe also said, “Getting back to your question, senator, these were discussions that were had between the Pittsburgh field office, the local counterparts and everyone supporting that visit that day. And that’s why, when I laid in that position, I could not and I will not and I cannot understand why there was not better coverage, or at least somebody looking at that roof line when that’s where they were posted.”
Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger told Fox News that local snipers were located at a different part than where Rowe showed the Senate:
Goldinger, who coordinated local snipers working at the July 13 rally, said they were assigned to a window with a different vantage point than the one Rowe pointed to during his testimony on Tuesday.
Goldinger said monitoring the roof of the AGR building, where Thomas Matthew Crooks perched and opened fire, was not the local snipers’ assignment.
“The snipers from the Butler and Beaver ESU teams were posted in the second floor of the building adjacent to where the shooter was located, were posted in the two windows toward the end of the building,” Goldinger said. “From their post and vantage point, they were unable to see the shooter on the roof of the other building.”
“They were not posted at a location that would overlook the roof,” he continued. “Monitoring that roof was not their assignment.”
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“We assumed that the state and locals had it,”
Assume? ASSUME?
You know what ASSUME stands for, don’t you?
It lets an ASSassin slip by U snd ME.
Absolute clownshoes.
Yes, but the local guy is also assuming:
It looks like everyone was assuming and no one actually spoke to anyone else.
That may be true, but the fact is that when the feds show up at anything, they make it very clear that THEY are in charge and all other agencies (state, county, local) are subordinate to them. I say that as a retired State Police Sergeant who worked on many investigations and events over the years with FBI, USSS, ATF, etc.
True enough, BU dontt walk past the hard stop fact that Secret Service WERE THE CHIEF OPERATION that day. They EXIS to protectt people lioke Trump, unttil tey decide not to.
Nothing can take away from the plain fact that the Feds were ultimately responsible for Trump’s safety that day. And they blew it, bigtime, and are now doing the classic gummit side step and shuffle routine. Who, MEEEEEEE??!!??
When the feds come in as either investigators, protectors, medical disasters etc, their usual attitude has been described as “that’s fine Sonny, we are the bad a$$ A team and will tell you what, if anything your responsibility will be”
Or worse
We’ve got a little prisoner’s dilemma here, don’t we? Who is going to tell the truth the most and burn their fellow?
Why so much misinformation?
The Secret Service says they are attempting to thwart future assassination attempts by putting out misinformation in order to make future assassins so confused they will be certain to fail.
So…who is getting fired… and when? This is not a situation where the resignation of a single political appointee is enough.
the only thing really assumed is that dei and whatever other covers it hides under
will somehow just go away if you pray hard enough
it wont
Let’s face it. USSS is not a security agency for anyone. It’s just an amateur theater group that puts on shows (for a lot of money) called “We Provide Security”
Ahem. He’s lying. Before an event, the USSS creates a security plan, in writing. All of this “I don’t know” is b.s., and means he intentionally didn’t read the security plan before testifying. so that he could play dumb; or that the security plan would reflect badly on his agency, so he’s playing dumb.
I assume the committee has already subpoenaed the security plan. I hope.
Bottom line: At an event such as the one in Butler, ALL oversight is under the Direct purview of the USSS.
If there were failures, even by the local LEO those still fall directly upon the shoulders of the USSS.
Rowe’s and others of the USSS/ DHS, pointing fingers at and laying blame upon local LEO, whatever the excuses, (lack of communication, assumptions, etc.) in NO WAY absolves them of their failure to perform as expected.
Heads should roll – many heads.
The truth is that the administrative state wants Trump out by any means necessary; this situation is far worse than mere incompetence.
Everything hinges on how many spent casings were found on the roof.
First, they said 5, which would indicate 3 more from an unknown source, (Covered bleachers behind Crooks)
When an SS guy got up on the roof, they magically found 3 more cartridges!
That little fact would absolve the SS of talk of a 2nd shooter and put them in the clear.
That recording of the local man saying they found 5 needs to be scrutinized to see if was tampered with.
I personally believe it was by the SS.
If so, the whole case would blow up in the SS’s face.
It’s too late now, but the 3 new found casings should have been checked for firing pin dimples.
Everybody had AR’s, it would have been so simple to pull out the 3 bullets and dump the powder,
except for the lack of the dimple.
And bingo, the SS’s butt is covered, only one shooter. 🙁
The new head of the USSS said that the guy who planned the fiasco at Butler, PA hasn’t been suspended and is actively working planning other fiascos, although he didn’t use the word fiasco.
If you don’t succeed at first, try, try again!