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On Tuesday afternoon, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) shared bodycam footage taken shortly after the incident on his Twitter/X account. Grassley has marked the footage (appropriately) as "Sensitive Content," so I'm including the link to his tweet, along with an embed of the video (below) shared by other accounts on the platform.
In his tweet, Grassley stated:
SENSITIVE CONTENT: July 13 Bodycam footage provides more info than Secret Service will share w America We NEED detailed answers ASAP on security failures TRANSPARENCY BRINGS ACCOUNTABILITYVid obtained from Beaver Co Emergency Services Unit in compliance w congressional requests
Madam Director, I would fire you — regardless of the failure — I would fire you just how you've handled it since. You should have been the first to the mics, to say, "America, world, I want to assure you we're going to get to the bottom of this. I want to assure you full transparency. Our agency clearly had major gaps here. And I want to personally take responsibility and accountability. You should have been the first, standing alongside Secretary Mayorkas. And I would even go so far as to say have daily press conferences, updating everyone on what we know. But you haven't had any of that. What are you hiding behind? Because you're making the situation worse. I think you've heard that on a bipartisan basis here: You are making this situation far worse in the absence of information. //
Fishin'withFredo
2 hours ago
Just come out with it, for god's sake. This was a multi-agency orchestrated plan to kill Donald Trump. //
wildmlm Fishin'withFredo
12 minutes ago
No. Because those secrets would never stay secret. Listen to her…she’s incompetent. They were lax and overconfident. //
Spike the Kool-Aid P Bro
2 hours ago
There is no accountability because the true power does not lie with We The People or our elected representatives, where it is supposed to. The hubris of those who rule (not govern) us is yet again on full display.
America's true and only systemic RACE problem is the federal government, which takes zero Responsibility, has no Accountability, never faces Consequences, and does not apply Equal treatment under the law.
That needs to change. The federal government and those who control it do not have our consent to rule over us.
Rep. Eli Crane
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This video was taken from one of the windows the Secret Service had access to, overlooking the entire roof.
As you can see, they had complete coverage.
Makes you wonder how on earth they allowed the shooter to access the roof, let alone crawl up it & fire several shots.
2:27 PM · Jul 22, 2024 //
With questions still swirling about why warnings to local police about the suspect were slow to reach Secret Service personnel, Homeland Security Chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.) said he learned Monday that local authorities were excluded from the Secret Service command posts for the July 13 rally, even though such officials had been granted that access at similar events in the past.
“Normally, the local law enforcement guys are allowed to sit in the Secret Service … control room,” Green said. “Today, the locals shared with us that they were not allowed to have anybody in there. So, that makes you want to dig a little further, right?”
After claiming to have ramped up security around former President Donald Trump because of an Iranian plot to assassinate him, the Secret Service provided only three agency personnel for “post-standing” Trump’s fateful July 13 Pennsylvania rally, compared to the 12 post-standers that first lady Jill Biden received at a dinner in nearby Pittsburgh that night, according to emails between and among Secret Service personnel obtained by RealClearPolitics.
The Secret Service typically assigns special agents in a candidate’s detail, or “shift” agents in Secret Service lingo, to posts within an inner perimeter of an event. The middle perimeter is then monitored by agents pulled for local Secret Service field offices and assigned as “post-standers” assigned to specific spots and responsible for security specific targeted areas. //
Probable Cause
31 minutes ago
To be fair, it does make sense that they'd assign more resources to protect the current president. /s. //
Chuck in TX
27 minutes ago
Now, let's dig a little deeper and see if it gets even more interesting. Three were assigned to the Butler, PA detail. Was this a one time, singular, reduction? Was this abnormally low compared to the weeks and months prior? In other words, did the Secret Service reduce protection specifically for this event? An event where they secured the building the shooter used but allowed him to access the roof? An event where multiple law enforcement and bystanders reported a man with a rifle in a shooting position and they chose to look the other way? //
Truth Seeker First
22 minutes ago
Now all needs to be done to make a head count of attendees at fake-doctor Jill's event and Trump's event to get a "post" to attendees ratio to evaluate that there is no political bias in assigning Aecret Servuce Agents.
I can tell you already, that Jill's 6 attendees event got already more agents assigned than Trump's 30,000 attendees!
Wow, politicising needed personal protection for opposition party's candidates!
Trump should refuse to debate Harris and label her as an illegitimately selected candidate who was put into the race by unelected party oligarchs. //
At this point, the spotlight needs to be focused on the Democrat decision to replace Biden, the hypocrisy of him staying in office, and treating Harris as an usurper in the field who has no right to be taken seriously.
Rep. Mike Waltz
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Once again Mayorkas has MISLED the public.
On CNN he called my statement that President Trump’s detail was DENIED repeated requests for stronger secret service protection “an irresponsible statement that is unequivocally false”.
Now WaPo is citing officials that I was CORRECT,…
Josh Dawsey
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NEWS: Secret Service repeatedly denied requests from Trump’s detail, contrary to their statement last week. Requests included at times: snipers, magnetometers and agents to work them, specialty teams. Our latest: https://washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/07/20/trump-secret-service-security-attempted-assassination/
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Next time you’re going to call me and your own Secret Service agents liars on national TV, make sure that you're not the one lying to the American people yourself.
7:39 PM · Jul 20, 2024
Rep. Mike Waltz
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I have very reliable sources telling me there have been repeated requests for stronger secret service protection for President Trump.
Denied by Secretary Mayorkas.
Chad Pergram
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Comer wants USSS Director Cheadle to appear for a hearing on Trump shooting “soon.” His committee has oversight of Secret Service:
Comer: My prayers are with President Trump and the victims of the assassination attempt at today’s rally in Pennsylvania. I thank the brave Secret…
9:59 PM · Jul 13, 2024
Rep. Mike Waltz
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Director Cheadle should be fired just for how badly she’s dealt with the public this week.
NO press conferences, NO on-camera briefings, NO flow of information to the American people.
The public has a RIGHT TO KNOW how someone came within 1/4 inch of killing President Trump!
5:00 PM · Jul 20, 2024
Insiders told The Post that local law enforcement was recruited for the Butler, Pennsylvania rally because Secret Service headquarters denied the ex-president’s request for extra resources.
Trump’s personal detail asks Secret Service headquarters for resources –manpower, equipment, tech — headquarters approves or denies at their discretion.
Only when denied would the detail inquire with the field office, which would backfill with any available resources, including local law enforcement.
What happens when reckless hate meets today’s realities and social media. //
Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital
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That feeling when you're Politico and try to cancel JD Vance by saying that he loves Lord of the Rings and that LOTR is far right propaganda but accidentally end up making him the coolest profile photo possible.
3:54 PM · Jul 19, 2024. //
Meanwhile, the memes are flowing like the lava on Mt. Doom.
Congressman Ronny Jackson, who served as physician to the president during the Trump administration, said in a statement Saturday he evaluated the former president in Bedminster, New Jersey, last week. //
"The bullet track produced a 2 cm-wide wound that extended down to the cartilaginous surface of the ear," the physician said. "There was initially significant bleeding, followed by marked swelling of the entire upper ear. The swelling has since resolved, and the wound is beginning to granulate and heal properly.
"Based on the highly vascular nature of the ear, there is still intermittent bleeding requiring a dressing to be in place. Given the broad and blunt nature of the wound itself, no sutures were required."
Olbermann responded critically on X.
Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann
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In brief: Ronny Jackson isn't a doctor. Which is perfect, because Trump wasn't hit by a bullet.
6:13 PM · Jul 20, 2024. //
Olbermann's denial of this not only reeks of hatred, it is an act insulting to the family of Corey Comperatore, who was killed while protecting his wife and daughters. It's insulting to David Dutch and James Copenhaver, who were seriously wounded. Does Olbermann think their injuries were faked as well?
If the former chief medical advisor to President Biden wants to talk tough, let’s see him back it up.
Downplaying an assassination attempt against Trump barely one month after getting weepy-eyed discussing threats against himself and his family during a House hearing is rich.
“Yes, there have been everything from harassments by emails, texts, letters of myself, my wife, my three daughters,” Fauci testified during a House Oversight Committee hearing in June.
“At these moments, how do you feel?” Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) pressed.
“Terrible,” Fauci said, still visibly upset and trying to collect himself. //
Don’t let the crocodile tears fool you. Try to imagine what Fauci’s response would be if somebody fired a shot directed at his skull and ended up with a face covered in blood.
Think he’d be back on CNN the next day saying, ‘Look guys, don’t worry about me, it’s simply a superficial wound. Carry on.’
In that same hearing, Fauci claimed the “credible death threats” against him have “required my having Protective Services essentially all the time.”
(Side note – There is no more credible death threat than actual shots fired and having a supporter nearby killed in the hail of bullets. Fauci would have you believe the threats he receives are more credible than those others receive). //
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), went on to point out that as a high-profile senator who has nearly killed himself on multiple occasions, he doesn’t have a security force comparable to the left’s greatest false idol. He also mocked Fauci for trying to garner sympathy.
“He wants to develop empathy and sympathy. He wants to paint Republicans as creating this danger. I've had 34 death threats in a week before. I have had death threats as soon as this last week,” Paul said.
“So we get them all the time, and nobody picks me up in a limo and takes me to where I want to go every day.” //
Jim Dollar 4 hours ago
Has Trump ever claimed anything otherwise? He put a bandage on it and went on about his campaign.
The important part is that it was inflicted by someone trying to kill him, and would have succeeded but for a turn of his head. And that's a pretty serious incident.
A gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump was able to fly a drone and get aerial footage of the western Pennsylvania fairgrounds shortly before the former president was set to speak there, law-enforcement officials briefed on the matter said, further underscoring the stunning security lapses ahead of Trump’s near assassination.
Thomas Matthew Crooks flew the drone on a programmed flight path earlier in the day on July 13 to scour the Butler Farm Show grounds ahead of Trump’s ill-fated rally, the officials said. The predetermined path, the officials added, suggests Crooks flew the drone more than once as he researched and scoped out the event site. [....]
Watching the RNC last night was fascinating in more ways than one. It was incredible to see the unity there, but that unity wasn't forced at all. People were very excited to be charging forward under one banner.
It wouldn't be a stretch to say that the banner the RNC was rallying around had the name Trump/Vance plastered in bold letters on it, but despite that fact, the RNC's primary focus wasn't Trump. Don't get me wrong, it was a massive part of the messaging to be sure. It would be weird if it wasn't, given recent events and the fact that he's the official Republican candidate.
But ultimately, the RNC's message was very simple but very profound.
"This is about you."
The funny thing is, in any other election cycle, this message would have been worthy of eye rolls. Every election cycle, politicians and talking heads smile at the camera and tell you how much they want to get into office to fix all the problems for Americans, but this year, it actually felt genuine. //
The thing is, the left's message is also "this is about you." However, now that we've watched them at their most unhinged, "this is about you" looks pretty unhinged when the left says it. It's like a salivating wolf saying the phrase to sheep.
The Democrat Party's approach to "helping" America takes on the feel of them saying, "This is for your own good," whereas the Republican Party's approach is "You don't need us in your way to thrive." The Democrats want you to submit; the Republicans want you to live like an American should. //
Many within the party, and indeed on the left, truly believe they know better and that what they're doing is a good thing. They think they're the heroes.
But they lost the plot. They forgot they are fallible humans themselves. They got so infected with their own hate that they think their hatred of people is good. They willfully operate on this hate under the full understanding that their hatred causes them to, as was pointed out by Trump last night, operate for only half the country while damning the other half, but doing so in good conscience.
They brainwashed themselves into thinking villainy is a virtue.
The reason the RNC seemed so genuine and united is because amidst all the villainy we've experienced over the past few years, one party still remembers an America as it's supposed to be.
"Seeing Donald Trump get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the most bada-- things I’ve ever seen in my life," Zuckerberg said Thursday during an interview at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, according to Bloomberg.
"On some level as an American, it’s like hard to not get kind of emotional about that spirit and that fight, and I think that that’s why a lot of people like the guy." //
Zuckerberg said Meta is making changes that he hopes will mean Facebook is not as much of a flashpoint in elections going forward. “The main thing that I hear from people is that they actually want to see less political content on our services because they come to our services to connect with people.” Meta is already recommending less political content to its users, he added. “I think you’re going to see our services play less of a role in this election than they have in the past.” //
Mary Frances
12 hours ago
Trump raises his "fight" fist to America. Biden raises his middle finger to us.
UpLateAgain Mary Frances
12 hours ago
You can't really blame Biden. That's all the weight he can heft.
In the wake of Saturday's failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, the US Secret Service is still unable to explain how the incident happened, but it is devoting a lot of effort to defending the Secret Service agents who appeared to be flummoxed and a lot less than competent as former President Trump was evacuated to the hospital.
Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 @saras76
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DEI hire who couldn't find holster, hid behind Secret Service instead of jumping in.
Coward.
Women don't belong in that position.
4:08 PM · Jul 14, 2024 //
The physical fitness standards required are wildly different — a male doing four pull-ups fails the fitness test fails, a woman doing four pull-ups gets a max score. The physical fitness requirements are either related to the job or they are not; in that case, they would have difficulty surviving a legal challenge. If they are related to the job and men and women are required to do the same job, they must be the same. //
While the Secret Service is trying to make this a sex issue, it isn't. It is a competence issue. There is no issue with women on a presidential protective detail so long as the men and women meet the same objective, empirical standards. //
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo
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This is progress. We are creating a circle of connotations around "DEI" that associates it with failure, corruption, incompetence, and fraud. Keep pushing.
4:29 PM · Jul 18, 2024
Carlson spoke to Trump Saturday evening after the former president dodged an assassin's bullet:
I think it changed him. I reached out to Trump within hours of it, that night, and what he said to me that night – he said not a single word about himself. He said only how amazed he was and proud he was of the crowd, which didn’t run.
Of course they didn't run. His courage gave them heart. A leader’s courage gives courage to his people.
For a man who's allegedly divisive and selfish (according to Democrats and the legacy media), Trump's actions since the assassination attempt have been anything but, Carlson said:
He turned down the most obvious opportunity in politics to inflame the nation after he was shot...This is the most responsible, unifying behavior of a leader that I’ve ever seen.
Then there was this amazing video taken by Rick Foerster who had been in the front row at the rally with his wife Karen, but had to go the hospital because she was overcome by the heat. They were there when the car arrived with Trump in front of the hospital. They had heard he was supposedly shot in the head and there was blood, from someone in the front row. I looked at this and thought about how John F. Kennedy was brought into Parkland Hospital. But fortunately, this was so different. You can hear how people in the room prayed for Trump when they heard that.
President Trump withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty. He did so for two reasons. First, Russia was cheating on the treaty like it always cheats on treaties (which is why I categorize anyone wanting an agreement with Russia as invincibly stupid, terminally naive, or a Russian agent of influence). It had developed and deployed prohibited weapons in Europe. Second, China was not bound by the treaty and was developing intermediate-range nuclear weapons while we were prohibited.
There is no "unilateral moratorium on the deployment of ground-based intermediate-range missiles" on Russia's part for Putin to suspend. Putin made several proposals for a general moratorium, which the Trump administration rejected. There are no monitoring or verification measures in place.
If you want more details on the events leading up to President Trump's departure from the INF, read Trump Announces the US Is Leaving a Treaty Russia Is Violating, and You Can Guess What Happened. https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/10/21/trump-announces-us-leaving-treaty-russia-violating-can-guess-happened-n96589
What Putin wants is to retain roughly 100 forward-deployed launchers for missiles that would be covered by the INF and for the US to negotiate away its ability to respond. Putin's lapdogs are all upset about Russian cities being within range of NATO weapons but not a single one of those voices has ever expressed any concern about Russian weapons based in Kaliningrad threatening a majority of NATO capitals.
Fabian Hoffmann @FRHoffmann1
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When people claim medium-range missiles in Germany are destabilizing because they can reach homeland targets deep inside Russia, including Moscow, ask how often they’ve complained about short-range ballistic and land-attack cruise missiles stationed in Kaliningrad.
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9:01 AM · Jul 15, 2024
And threatening to nuke NATO capitals is something that happens on Russian state television a couple of times a month. //
Hopefully, Trump won't let himself be rolled by Putin the way that China's Xi pantsed Biden; Checkmate? US Removes Missiles From the Philippines As China's Xi Plays JFK to Biden's Khrushchev.
CNN contributor and Democrat strategist Van Jones was impressed with model and rapper Amber Rose's speech, as were many who listened to her at the Republican National Convention on Monday.
Jones told CNN viewers that Rose's speech was "probably the most dangerous speech" for the Democrat party.
That was probably the most dangerous speech for the Democratic coalition. That is a young woman of color. She is describing the experience that a lot of people have — feeling that maybe, if you’re around too many liberals, you might get criticized too much or you might not be able to speak your mind, and she spoke to it really well. //
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At the RNC this week, Amber Rose’s approach poses the biggest threat to the Democratic Party’s traditional coalition. If the GOP is trying to bust up the Democratic Party, Amber Rose is a bunker-busting bomb. 💣 😱 💣
#GOP #RNC #RNC2024 #Trump2024 #Biden2024 #BidenHarris2024… Show more
12:22 PM · Jul 16, 2024
On Sunday, Trump said in an exclusive interview with the New York Post, aboard Trump One while en route to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, that he was "supposed to be dead," as he recalled the "very surreal experience."
The doctor at the hospital said he never saw anything like this, he called it a miracle. I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead ... I’m supposed to be dead.
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By luck or by God, many people are saying it’s by God I’m still here. //
Donald being Donald, he also took a moment to describe the "iconic" picture taken soon after Secret Service agents helped him to his feet and led him off stage.
A lot of people say it’s the most iconic photo they’ve ever seen. They’re right and I didn’t die. Usually you have to die to have an iconic picture. I just wanted to keep speaking, but I just got shot.
Senate Candidate for Virginia Hung Cao knows the magnitude of the gift his family was given when they were allowed to immigrate from Vietnam to the United States. In an inspiring speech at the RNC Tuesday evening, Cao tells of how America saved his life.
"We escaped from Vietnam days before Saigon fell to the communists. We were given a new life in the most generous country on earth. My name is Hung Cao, and America saved my life."
Cao's speech reminded us of the beauty of the American dream and that no country in the world is like our own. He shows us immigration done right — a treasured piece of American history and heritage that has gotten lost in the reckless stewardship of poor leaders. . //
Margaret Clark
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This is the American dream.
Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) @TeamTrump
"Don't ask for the American dream if you aren't willing to embrace AMERICAN LAWS & AMERICAN CULTURE." -- @HungCao_VA
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7:53 PM · Jul 16, 2024