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It is incredibly difficult to have a venue open to the public, and to secure that against any possible threat, against a very determined attacker."
Shortly after the shooting, in response to the raised security questions, Pennsylvania State Police Lieutenant Colonel George Bivens said at a late-night news conference, which the Secret Service did not attend I've been consistent in my direction of the Secret Service to provide him with every resource, capability, and protective measure necessary to ensure his continued safety."
President Joe Biden, who on Sunday dropped out of this year's presidential race, has since vowed to continue providing Trump with the protection he needs and said I WILL CONTINUE TO DO OUTDOOR RALLIES, AND SECRET SERVICE HAS AGREED TO SUBSTANTIALLY STEP UP THEIR OPERATION,
the former president wrote on his Truth Social site They are very capable of doing so. No one can ever be allowed to stop or impede free speech or gathering,
We think – but we do not know, so again, this is one of these things that is qualified because of our ongoing review – that he was live-streaming, viewing the footage [for] about 11 minutes,
If they don't have enough money in their budget to protect elected officials, let Congress know so we can appropriate the money so that they can carry out their mission,
Since the day of the attack, the FBI has been consistent and clear that the shooting was an attempted assassination of former President Trump which resulted in his injury, as well as the death of a heroic father and the injuries of several other victims,
We heard the excuse made by the director that she felt that the slope of the roof was too steep and it would have endangered the safety of the officers,
The Secret Service was responsible for the operational plan,
This is the agency that has been tasked with protecting federal elected officials. That is their No. 1 top priority,
From being at the scene, there was a water tower located roughly 100 yards away from where the shooter was positioned, and if law enforcement had someone up in that water tower, they would have been able to cover the entire perimeter from that elevated position,
Congress increased the budget of the Secret Service knowing it was a presidential year, knowing that they would need additional resources, additional personnel,
FBI Director Wray provided extensive congressional testimony on Wednesday about the FBI’s investigation,
I believe that the planning that day, the execution of the planning and the leadership, those were all three abysmal failures that resulted in the shooting of President Donald Trump,
We actually gave them more resources than they requested to try to make sure that they would be prepared for the protective details that they would have to provide to both presidential and vice presidential candidates,
According to one whistleblower, the night before the rally, U.S. Secret Service repeatedly denied offers from a local law enforcement partner to utilize drone technology to secure the rally,
Hawley, a Missouri Republican and member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, wrote in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas The whistleblower further alleges that after the shooting took place, USSS changed course and asked the local partner to deploy the drone technology to surveil the site in the aftermath of the attack,
This raises an obvious question: why was the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) not using its own drones?"
That whistleblower is gonna be local law enforcement, and USSS would never allow a non-USSS drone,
the expert on active shooter response told Fox News Digital It is hard to understand why USSS would decline to use drones when they were offered, particularly given the fact USSS permitted the shooter to overfly the rally area with his own drone mere hours before event,