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The most central and important rule of the Biden administration is that whatever happens, it is never the fault of the Biden administration. The responsibility does not stop with the president, nor does it stop with any part of the executive branch, including the Secret Service.
In the wake of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the former president and would-be president was reportedly guarded by a combined force of Secret Service agents and state and local police, the finger-pointing and blame-pointing has begun as it becomes clear that Saturday’s attack was a catastrophic security failure.
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According to Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi, the federal agency is only responsible for the actual property where Trump speaks, not the surrounding area, which Guglielmi claims is the responsibility of local police. This is complete nonsense.
The idea that the Secret Service wasn’t responsible for a building 150 yards from where Trump was speaking, in perfect view of a sniper, is not just implausible but shattering, and the idea that Trump’s security was the responsibility of local police, and not an agency whose sole mission is to keep those it protects, is specious.
We’re talking about protecting the life and lives of a former president, and at this point likely future president, of the United States. You’re not going to outsource that to the local police in a town of 13,000 people. That’s like asking Andy Griffith to hunt down ISIS.
You have to understand that Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle is a passionate advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion, she bragged after Biden nominated her to be Secret Service director in 2022. Security Magazine Cheatle is known for his ability to break glass ceilings, and the department’s website states he is responsible for carrying out the department’s overall mission of “leading a diverse workforce to protect and investigatively deliver.”
It’s too early to say whether this obsession with DEI has come at the expense of Trump’s safety, but we all saw the footage of the aftermath of the shooting, with a female agent a foot shorter than Trump trying to cover his body while another struggled to holster his gun, making the Keystone police look like Kojak.
Frankly, Cheatle should have been fired, it should have happened days ago, but as Trump pointed out in the debate, no one gets fired by Joe Biden.
Jake Sullivan is still in his job after saying the Middle East was peaceful 10 minutes before Hamas launched a vicious attack on Israel, Alejandro Mayorkas is still running our broken borders, and the director of the Secret Service’s incompetence and strange priorities have led to a situation that could lead to Trump’s assassination.
At this point, it’s unclear what it would take to get Biden fired. Burn down the White House?
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We know that everyone makes mistakes and is sometimes bad at their jobs. If that person is an office manager or a barista, we can survive. If your job is to keep the leader of the free world alive, failure is not an option.
Now would be a good time for Biden to channel his inner Harry Truman, say he is responsible, and that he has the guts to fire people whose incompetence is putting America and the lives of its people at risk, and start changing all that.
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But we all know that’s not going to happen. Once again, there will be no accountability, no transparency or accountability, just the same shameful flattery and the usual “we’ll do better next time” message.
America deserves much better than this. Corey Comperatore, who was murdered under lax Secret Service surveillance, certainly deserves it, as do the other three victims, including Mr. Trump.
It was probably no coincidence that when Donald Trump made a surprise appearance at the Republican National Convention on Monday, the Secret Service personnel looked very different than they had in previous years: They were taller, more masculine, more like law enforcement than a Benetton ad. But it was too late.
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It’s too late to save this brave American husband and father, and almost too late to save the Republican nominee for President. This must be stopped before more Americans lose their lives.
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