Donald Trump and his minions must tone down their vile rhetoric. But if anyone else is threatened, the Service will by there to protect him/her/they.
Mr. Chairman, Former President Trump avoided assassination by the tip of his ear because my agents acted fast. Still, the Secret Service failed the country because not one of the female agents who shielded Trump from bullets scooted up to him in a wheelchair. Worse, not one was African American. For that, I am sorry.
The Secret Service adequately protected Trump in that he’s not dead but merely dinged up. The same could not be said for Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy. Can we please get a little credit for sort of doing our job?
We wanted that MAGA horde to photograph our excellent work in Butler, so our agents remained on stage with Trump for an eternity instead of rushing him into an SUV after Thomas Matthew Crooks shot him. Had President Reagan’s 1981 detail kept him out of that limo instead of quickly shoving him into it after John Hinckley Jr. nearly killed him, perhaps the Gipper could’ve given a fist pump, too, and won Minnesota and Washington, DC, in 1984.
Law enforcement successfully identified Crooks as a person of interest more than an hour before the shooting. However, we lost sight of him. In fairness to us, there were a ton of people at that rally. I mean, you try keeping track of all the weirdos at a Trump rally. It’s like being asked to keep tabs on the oddest creature in that Star Wars bar.
