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There are so many questions about how it was possible for a gunman to nearly assassinate former President Donald Trump late Saturday afternoon. Questions have been raised over who has jurisdiction over the building that the shooter was perched on, but it is widely agreed that there weren’t enough Secret Service resources protecting President Trump. This failure will be subjected to intense scrutiny for many, many months.
But we are starting to get more details that explain how such an obvious vulnerability wasn’t secured. According to Susan Crabtree of Real Clear Politics, sources within the Secret Service say that resources were diverted from the Trump rally. for Jill Biden.
„Secret Services resources were diverted to Jill Biden’s event and away from Trump’s because they followed agency protocol applying to Trump as a former president, according to two sources within the Secret Service community“, Crabtree reports in a post on X.
„But Trump is not just a former president — he is the first in modern history to have run for president again — and he has been the focus of several prosecutions and controversies (understatement intentional)“, she wrote.
