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You can use big words and insider acronyms to explain yourselves. Still, the Secret Service oversight of the Butler, Pa., site of Donald Trump’s near-assassination can best be summed up in these three simple words: a clown show. If you hadn’t figured that out by now, it was unwittingly confirmed during a news conference (see below) Friday.
The stunning stories about the Secret Service brass half-stepping their jobs and holding things together with zip ties and duct tape for the last few years or so appear to be true. I base this on whistleblower reports, Dan Bongino’s tirades, and testimony, but I also base the observation on a shocking admission made by the acting chief of this outfit in his presser on Friday.
Now, I first want you to put yourself in the place of a Burger King shift manager, tech CEO, 7-11 night clerk, person planning a vacation, a guy on a sales call with a purchasing manager, platoon commander planning a mission, fashion show coordinator, or, I don’t know, perhaps the guy in charge of operations and his site manager of the Secret Service, who are supposed to know that details matter.
«[I]t’s a failure to challenge our assumptions, meaning the assumption that, hey, that’s going to be addressed or that’s going to be covered by state and local», Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe told reporters when they asked him what happened.
They asked, naturally, what changes were being made. Rowe, ever the company man, told them, «I convened a call with all of our special agents in charge of all of our field offices.
