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Among the many troubling questions surrounding the massive security failure that took place prior to the July 13 assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life, one of the most glaring ones was why Trump was even allowed to take the stage. We now know that various security personnel from the Secret Service, DHS, local police, and others were aware of the presence of Thomas Crooks and had identified him as a security concern. Did Trump just shrug it off in an effort to get on with the show? During an interview yesterday, Trump revealed that wasn’t the case at all. Trump told Jesse Watters of Fox News that nobody even mentioned it to him. No concerns were raised and he was simply escorted out onto the stage as he had been scheduled to do. The rest, as they say, is history. (NY Post)
Donald Trump revealed Saturday that he was not warned about the gunman who shot him at a Pennsylvania rally last weekend despite agents eyeing the suspect for hours before the attack.
“Nobody mentioned it,” Trump told Jesse Watters in an upcoming episode of the Fox News anchor’s primetime show.
“Nobody said it was a problem.”
“[They] could’ve said, ‘Let’s wait for 15, 20 minutes, 5 minutes.’ Nobody said…I think that was a mistake,” he added.
Trump is being beyond generous by characterizing this as «a mistake.» It was a mistake that came within centimeters of costing him his life. Of course, his reticence about being more critical is probably understandable. He still needs the Secret Service and he will need them for the rest of his life, regardless of whether he wins the election in November or not. (Even more so if he does.) I will once again point out that we’re probably not talking about the rank-and-file Secret Service agents who make up Trump’s personal security detail, or at least I hope not.
The massive security collapse of July 13 most likely took place at the management level.
