More will come out that they have never made it a priority to protect him. The ahole Bennie Thompson even tried to take SS away from him. The SS agents are not to blame as they are willingly given up themselves to protect their subjects. This as usual is coming from the top.
that is some horrible line work and the drawing is ass in general if he paid anything more than free for that tattoo, he got scammed
When it comes to economic issues many poor white folks face, maga right wing leadership uses marginalized relatively powerless groups as scapegoats like trans people, migrants, Muslims etc claiming they do things at a systemic level that would make anyone who believes their rhetoric that immediate violence must be taken on these groups of people. Another big reason is the maga leadership has convinced their entire voting base that the most fundamental basics of our vote counting system is fake news and the where the maga movement has created a new paradigm where every future election the GOP will claim the vote totals are fake news if they lose causing mass instability because a democracy only functions if its citizens believe in the results. Those are the two main reasons for me.
january 6th, attempting to overturn the results of a free and fair election and to this day refusing to acknowledge trump lost, stealing classified documents and refusing to turn them over, calling for the execution of general milley, calling for a televised military tribunal for liz cheney, pressuring secretaries of state to commit election fraud ("all i need is 11,780 votes"), advocacy of violence to advance your political goals, undermining faith in our democracy, undermining the justice system, attacking law enforcement, dangerous authoritarian tendencies, mocking your political enemies after they are victims of assaults or kidnapping plots (paul pelosi and grechen whitmire), claiming he will be a dictator on day one...i could go on but i have to go to dinner.
Only if you count drug overdoses that happened to occur on January 6th at the Capitol and suicides by anyone who was at the Capitol on January 6th (even if they didn't give any indication that January 6th was the reason for their suicide). One person was actually murdered at the Capitol on January 6th, and her killer was never charged.
Secret Service blames local police, says it was tasked with securing properties surrounding Trump’s Pa. rally The Secret Service blamed local police for failing to secure the rooftop from which gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump, insisting it was outside of the perimeter the federal agency was tasked with protecting. Instead, securing and patrolling the factory grounds of AGR International Inc. — located about 130 yards from the stage where Trump was speaking Saturday — was the responsibility of local Pennsylvania police, Secret Service representative Anthony Gugliemi said, according the New York Times. The Secret Service was only tasked with covering the grounds where Trump’s rally took place, with local police being recruited to assist with those efforts and secure the area outside of the rally. But neighbors living near Butler Farm Show Grounds told The Post they were never visited by any law enforcement agencies — local or federal — in the days before or during the rally. “Nobody contacted me. Nobody. Nobody called me, nobody stopped here,” said Valerie Fennell, whose home backs up on the fair grounds and is just beyond a stand of trees from AGR. “I kinda was thinking that as close as my house is, that I honestly thought this might be part of a command station at some point,” she said. And it wasn’t just Fennell who wasn’t contacted by law enforcement — she said her entire neighborhood was bafflingly left alone despite their proximity to the rally grounds. “I was talking to my neighbors yesterday, and none of them had gotten a call. Or anything,” she said, while her sister, Debra, agreed. “I guess it’s kind of the same question that everybody has. I guess, as far as like, why that area wasn’t secure.” The lapses also apparently continued into the rally. Attendees reported seeing 20-year-old Thomas Crooks acting suspiciously near rally metal detectors, according to CNN, with local law enforcement being notified and broadcasting warnings over their radios to the Secret Service to be on the lookout for him. He was also reportedly seen with a rifle outside of a security checkpoint to gain entrance into the rally, and later spotted jumping “roof to roof” before settling on the AGR factory. Police apparently failed to locate him while those alerts were out, before finally responding to reports of an armed man on top of the AGR roof. Around 6:10 p.m., a local police officer climbed a ladder onto the roof and came face to face with Crooks, who who was pointing his rifle at him, law enforcement sources told the Associated Press. The officer backed down the ladder, and in those moments Crooks took aim and fired about eight bullets on the rally. He struck Trump in the ear, and fatally struck bystander Corey Comperatore in the audience, and gravely wounded two others in the crowd. Within moments, Secret Service snipers stationed on a barn rooftop behind the stage fatally shot Crooks. Snipers appeared to have their sights trained in the direction of Crooks before they opened fire on him, though it is unclear whether they had seen him. The Secret Service confirmed it leaned on local law enforcement to help run security at the event, telling the Washington Post it is common practice to depend on local agencies for support. In addition to leaving the grounds outside the rally perimeter under the purview of local police, at least six officers from Butler County tactical units filled out the Secret Service’s counter assault team — the heavily armed agents who covered Trump’s evacuation — which only included two members of the Secret Service itself. The Secret Service’s two sniper teams were backed up by two local sniper teams. Pennsylvania police confirmed they assisted the Secret Service and regularly do when high profile government officials come to town, but that the federal agency ultimately runs the show. “Secret Service always has the lead on securing something like this,” Lieutenant Colonel George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police told reporters. “We work with them to provide whatever is requested by the Secret Service, but they’re the lead in that security,” he said.
So how exactly does this happen without Secret Service pulling Trump off stage? I understand not immediately shooting the guy... but simply call in the security next to Trump to get him out?
