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If this had been President Biden and he was golfing on the golf course, there would be a several-block security buffer around that golf course,
Why at this point, seven weeks out from an election, a major presidential candidate doesn’t have additional security personnel to secure the perimeter of his golf course?”
That to me is really unsettling,
said Evy Poumpouras, a former Secret Service agent who protected multiple presidents, including Barack Obama and George W. Bush, during her 12 years with the agency How did he get there, take that position for 12 hours and nobody saw that? Nobody did a perimeter sweep?"
she added in an interview on MSNBC Coming out of Butler, I have ordered a paradigm shift,
Ronald Rowe said at a press conference Monday, referring to the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July We need to get out of a reactive model, and get to a readiness model.”
We constantly evaluate based on threat,
The Secret Service operates under a paradox of zero fail mission but also that we have done more with less for decades,
I’ve had a conversation with the former president,
I got the impression he was open to that ideal,
If the Secret Service is in need of more resources, we are prepared in providing it for them, possibly in the upcoming funding agreement,
Schumer said in remarks on the Senate floor The American people deserve answers,
He’s the most attacked. He’s the most threatened,
They reveal a compounding pattern of negligence, sloppiness, and gross incompetence that goes back years, all of which culminated in an assassination attempt that came inches from succeeding,
according to Hawley’s office I’ve talked to a number of people in the aftermath, and it’s almost like people expected this. And that’s horrifying,
The people paying attention are absolutely numb to what’s going on,
It is kind of a reminder of how close of a call July actually was, how significant it was for so many people,
It’s just a continuing turn that America has taken toward political violence,
Instead, it has been left to courageous whistleblowers to tell the story of what really happened. They have testified to the serious security failures pervading every level of the Butler rally operation. They have highlighted longstanding problems at these security agencies, shedding light on decadent and unserious internal cultures,
The Secret Service needs more help,
Biden told reporters at the White House, following an incident Sunday in which the Secret Service opened fire on a gunman, who was later arrested, as Trump was playing a round of golf at one of his courses in Florida