Trump Assassination Attempt Victims Demand Accountability
“How do you get on a roof in an open field with people yelling that somebody’s getting on a roof, with snipers … adjacent to them. … And you don’t see him until he pops off his first round?”
The man who shot Donald Trump on July 13 left two men with life-altering injuries: James Copenhaver, 74, and David Dutch, 57.
The shooter also killed firefighter Corey Comperatore.
Joseph Feldman, attorney at the Law Offices of Max C. Feldman, told Fox News that Copenhaver and Dutch want to hold those responsible for security accountable:
“I think we’re going to get to the bottom of that here at some point, whether that’s through the [congressional] task force, through these investigations or if we do have to file a lawsuit. We’ll definitely get answers through that process,” Joseph Feldman, attorney at the Law Offices of Max C. Feldman, told Fox News Digital Monday. His office is exploring “different avenues” to get accountability after the shooting that forever altered his clients’ lives.
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Both victims have lingering questions about how gunman Thomas Crooks was able to get onto the roof of the nearby one-story, American Glass Research (AGR) building and shoot at Trump about 150 yards from the candidate’s podium. The building was located near the rally but technically not within the official perimeter.
“[W]e’re the United States of America,” Feldman said. “We pump tons of money into security resources in this country, especially dealing with the federal government. And you go to a rally to provide political support for a politician … the security is provided by the federal government, and it fails.”
How could the shooter fly a drone close to the location of the rally on that same day and yet the government said agents couldn’t fly their drones due to connectivity problems?
No one shut down the airspace?
Why don’t we know anything about the shooter? What was on his phone? How about his computer? Where did he get his materials?
Rally attendees saw the shooter on the roof and tried to warn people but nothing happened.
Feldman added:
“Not everything you say to your leadership goes directly to the top. And even if you know something’s going on, sometimes you know you’re not allowed to do anything about it, or you don’t have those orders. So, I’m curious,” Feldman said. “I served in Afghanistan for just right around a year, and we … ran hundreds of thousands of miles of missions. And nobody ever got that close to you.”
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“How do you get on a roof in an open field with people yelling that somebody’s getting on a roof, with snipers … adjacent to them. … And you don’t see him until he pops off his first round? That’s their job. That’s why they’re there. Secret Service isn’t there to listen to Donald Trump’s speech or his stats on immigration,” Feldman said.
Comperatore’s widow has retained a lawyer to find answers about the lack of security at the rally:
“I talk to him [Corey] anyway, and the only thing that ever comes out of my mouth is, ‘I’m sorry that this happened to you,’” Helen said. “But I know he would want me to get to the bottom of this. I know he would.”
To get answers about what happened, Helen Comperatore has hired an attorney.
“I want justice for my husband, and I’m going to get it,” she said.
They specifically want answers from security at the rally.
“I just want them to know that I really think my dad’s blood is on their hands, and I hope they wake up every day thinking about what they took from our family,” Kaylee said. “Because we have to wake up every day and see that image of our father in our head, and no child should ever have to see that.”
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This was clearly an act of criminal negligence, at the very least, on the part of the Secret Service, extending to and including Alejandro Mayorkass, Komrade Kamala, and Traitor Joe Biden. They are ALL criminally liable for this, with many others lower in the chain of command.
“criminal negligence’ is too kind and misses the point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yymZpY5hJ4&t=415s
You don’t get to make up laws. Bills of attainder, it’s called. Trump has enough trouble with it already.
You don’t get to make up laws.
Are you asserting that the concept of criminal negligence is something that The Primordial just “made up”?
BTW, your transparent attempt to change the subject from the Secret Services’ failures to Trump is noted
Government payouts, they don’t come from the government. The government doesn’t have any money. The government not paying is a benefit that even the people trying to sue receive. Namely they’re not paying for payouts to other would-be people suing for other stuff.
Story today, SBA requiring a man to prove that he didn’t take out a loan that the man never heard of. Versus the government in what would be conventional commerce transactions, you don’t get the usual rights.
1. What’s that got to do with Primordial’s claim about criminal negligence, to which you replied?
2. How does suing the government for compensation resemble a bill of attainder?
3. Even if Congress were to make a law ordering compensation for certain people (as it did for the Sep-11-2001 families), that would not be a bill of attainder. The fact that the general taxpayer will end up paying for that compensation doesn’t make it a “bill of attainder” against the general taxpayer.
A bill of attainder is not a made-up law. It’s a real law, of a kind that the constitution forbids Congress to make. But to be one Congress first has to make it.
agree–what disturbs me even more is that across several agencies (local, state, feds) NOT ONE of those who observed the shooter preparing/getting set-up to fire acted to intervene–NOT ONE
what sort of training are these folks given ? time and again we have seen in real life one of the truisms of security / protection work ( at least when we learned it ) : when you wait to interdict an armed individual’s activity ( be it a firearm / edged weapon / blunt force weapon ) people die.
corto y derecho–lord
The fix was in.
I hope and pray that the victims find peace and enormous cash settlements.
They are more likely to find single-car fatal accidents, home gas main explosions. and sudden onset of incurable illnesses.
How about demanding no female field agents? The supervising agent was a DEI hire. The press has covered up the gender angle pretty well.
Or at least demand they don’t abandon their post like one did in NC when she disappeared in the middle of a rally to go breast feed her baby. She was supposed to be guarding Trump but left without telling anybody knowing that, as a DEI hire, she would never get into trouble.
You are not being misogynist enough! No female field agents! No female law enforcement officers! No female military! I bet you also believe, like other commentators here on LI, that women should not be allowed to vote. Go back into your cave.
Way to completely miss the point with this flaccid comment, dingus.
I certainly believe, like other commenters here on LI, that you should hit the bricks and never come back, lonejustice/JR.
This case is likely to cause further examination of the jurisprudence surrounding the ‘Public Duty Doctrine,’ when it’s applicable and when it isn’t. Over the last 50-yaers or more, the Supreme Court has largely held that the state (in this case, federal) government has no duty to protect people who aren’t in their legal custody (incarcerated, under arrest or detained, for instance). 2005’s Castle Rock v. Gonzales is one of the more famous and recent examples of this. But, there have been some court cases the last decade or so – all in state courts, I believe – that have chipped away at that to some degree, often relying on the common law duty that obligates local government to ‘duty of care.’
It will be interesting to see if a lawsuit moves forward if this kind of argument – the government was so grossly negligent it allowed a criminal to act criminally – surpasses the barriers created by both federal statute and federal jurisprudence on suing the federal law enforcement agencies when they’re really, really bad at their jobs and people are injured by criminals because of it. While there’s some chance this argument prevails, I wouldn’t bet the farm on such a lawsuit surviving to the discovery phase.
Particularly as the function of this agency is (partly) specifically protection.
I think if Castle Rock could be circumvented here, it might have something to do with the fact that people at the rally are in a type of custody of the US Secret Service; they had to go through metal detectors and are prohibited from leaving the area once their principal is on the stage.
Somewhat of a misunderstanding of those cases. The cops do have a responsibility to protect people not in their custody. However, they’re not liable if they aren’t able to. The cops do have to come if you call and say a murderer in your house. They can’t be sued if they don’t make it in time. All the similar cases are along the same lines, the people suing argued that you have a 14th amendment right to liberty, and the cops not protecting you from a murderer doesn’t constitute a violation of that right.
As you pointed out though, it’ll be interesting to see how a jury decides this one. Even if we assume the USSS was criminally negligent when it comes to protecting Trump, the USSS is there to protect Trump himself (and family, etc.), as far as I know they have no real mandate to protect everyone watching him give a speech.
No, they don’t have to come. Even if they’re right there and see the murderer killing you, they have no duty to do anything.
Their duty is to the general public, not to any individual, and they can deliberately decide that it would be in the best interest of the general public for them to allow a specific crime to happen.
In your example, they could decide not to dispatch a cop to your home, because they need all the cops for some other purpose that they consider more important than merely preventing a murder.
At least 2 supreme court cases affirming that. Hence, one should take responsibility for one’s own security.
However, in this case they failed to secure their primary protectee, and in their failure others were harmed. Hopefully it’ll get to a jury.
its not like the lefty ever demanded trump be hurt
This is Biden’s Bay of Pigs. Mayorkas needs to hang.
Slowly.
Over a pit of ravenous crocodiles.
They want money. Attorneys are the giveaway.
They deserve money.
No more than police failing to protect you, which right does not exist. Don’t lose sight of who’s paying. It’s you.
You seem to be salivating over the possibility that two members of the general public were gravely injured at a Trump rally –due to the Secret Service’s gross negligence — but will receive no compensation from the gov’t.
Uh … no. The secret service’s job IS actual protection. The police’s job is to arrest criminals after they have committed, or in the process of committing, crimes.
Further, this is not about the secret service’s actual task but the fact that the service and up the chain of command purposely set out to create an environment for an assassin or other terrorist – bomber, etc – to easily carry out his mission. That is a crime. A very serious crime. Especially when it is perpetrated against the leading candidate during an election.
These are the most serious sorts of crimes that can be committed in a Constitutional Republic, and they are done in service of being able to rend the Constitution, itself, and destroy society.
This has absolutely nothing to do with the task of local police forces or anything like that. This is about criminal attempts to seize total power, and worst of all, to do that in order to destroy society.
We’ve seen in previous cases where people filed lawsuits to “get at the truth” but failed to ask for money, that their cases were suddenly mooted when life situations changed for either the defendants or the complainants — like they graduated from the school and “lost standing,” or the company sued went out of business. The lesson now is that you ALWAYS ask for money.
1) All they have access to is civil actions. There is no incarceration penalty in civil actions, just monetary compensation.
2) To effectively file a civil action, especially against the coercive organs of state power; you have to hire attorneys and hire the best you can afford.
Subotai Bahadur
why is the tac’d up guy at 3:00-3:05 pointing his gun at Trump?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPQR600Navo
Bad camera angle.
….and we still don’t know the truth behind the Kennedys.
This voluntary evil aggression cannot stand, man!
The building was located near the rally but technically not within the official perimeter.
And that building not being included in the perimeter is one of the prime failures. Outside, in a rural environment, the perimeter should be a minimum of 1,000 feet.
Good luck, but I wouldn’t count on a federal Court finding against the federal government
Which in and of itself is a major indicator of the current nature of our system.
Subotai Bahadur
accountability???
woke is un accountable
thats the whole agenda