ABC News: Secret Service Director Interview
This post won’t be relevant for long, but Trump was shot 3 days ago and this is the first interview of the Director of the Secret Service. Even in her own words, Kimberly Cheatle sound unfit for duty.
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There Will Always Be Vulnerabilities
This article was written by an veteran police officer who has been writing about law enforcement for many years. He describes working with the Secret Service in the manner that you’d expect.
From my position I could see other teams similarly situated on rooftops, but so numerous were the nearby buildings that there weren’t enough counter-sniper teams to post one on all of them. I was told, however, that any position overlooking the landing zone would be guarded by at least one Secret Service agent, most of them accompanied by an LAPD officer.
I’ve read a couple of books by Ronald Kessler about the Secret Service. It’s difficult to understand why security was so lax for Trump’s rally.
After a startling event, it takes a couple of days to get the story. Getting “all wee-wee’ed up”, as Obama once called it, isn’t a good idea until the dust settles.
A couple of things happened prior to the attempt to assassinate former President Trump.
In April, U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson and eight other congressmen introduced a bill to strip Secret Service protection from anyone convicted of a felony. The intention was clearly to leave Trump with no Secret Service protection.
The Biden Administration has been denying Secret Service protection to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. RFK is running as an independent candidate for president and is polling at 15%. He is not a trivial candidate. In case anyone isn’t clear on the history, his father and uncle were assassinated.
Denying Secret Service protection to credible presidential candidates is an extraordinary abuse of power and is thug intimidation. Greasing the skids for an assassin to murder a presidential candidate is horrible.
That should be reason enough to ruin the political careers of Biden and those nine congressmen.
The exchange came within the first 15 minutes, and suddenly, fears about Biden’s age and acuity, concerns that were once only whispered among Democrats, were being discussed openly on the left. Before the night was over observers ranging from Andrew Yang, who competed with him for the Democratic Party nomination in 2020, to Van Jones, a CNN contributor who previously worked in the Obama administration, said it was time for Democrats to look for another nominee.
The Biden/Trump presidential debate is 9 pm tonight. The NYT has an opinion piece on what each candidate can do to win.
Proclamation on the Termination Of Emergency With Respect To The Southern Border Of The United States And Redirection Of Funds Diverted To Border Wall Construction.
WH.Gov: Biden upens the Southern border.
On the first day of President Biden’s term, he rolled back Trump’s border policies.
FoxNews: Biden wants to close the border.
“To protect America as a land that welcomes immigrants, we must first secure the border and secure it now,” he said. “Simple truth is there is a worldwide migrant crisis and if the United States doesn’t secure our border, there’s no limit to the number of people who might try to come here, because there’s no better place on the planet than the United State of America.”
Biden should hand the keys to Trump right now and apologize to America.
Americans who knew the border invasion was a threat and bad for American citizens will not be fooled, and will remain Trump voters.
Americans who consider the border invasion to be beneficial and good for the Democratic Party, will be angry that Biden threw them under the bus and disgruntled Biden voters.
Biden did the same thing with the Israel/Palestine issue. He pissed off everyone.
At this point, it would be easier to list the Covid statements that were true and backed by scientific evidence.
Sixteen thousand people erupted into rapture when Donald J. Trump walked into the Prudential Center in Newark at 10 p.m. Saturday to attend an Ultimate Fighting Championship match.
UFC doesn’t appeal to me, and this article about Trump attending isn’t illuminating, but it did get me thinking about other presidents and candidates.
Where would Joe Biden go to revel in the embrace of his most avid fan base?
The author of the commentary, Jonathan Chait, describes himself as a liberal hawk. He is a committed anti-Trumper, but has criticized liberals and conservatives.