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Make no mistake, I think this guy is in a whole world of hurt,
Aronberg told CNN's Kaitlan Collins Was this just luck that you caught this guy, or did you have the appropriate mechanisms in place for these kinds of things on the threat spectrum?”
Ronald Layton, another retired veteran agent, said The increased mission requirements of the Secret Service necessitate additional resources to ensure that we have the tools, resources and personnel needed to meet these new requirements,
Rowe wrote in a 5 September letter to a Senate sub-committee on Homeland Security I’m very concerned at reports that the suspect allegedly was in the bushes for 11 hours,
Beth Celestini, a retired Secret Service agent who protected Barack Obama, told the New York Times The president wasn’t even really supposed to go there,
the Secret Service’s acting director, Ronald Rowe Jr, told journalists, adding It is imperative that the USSS detail assigned to President Trump be afforded additional protective resources, including greater staffing capabilities that would allow agents to secure a broader perimeter,
What additional protective resources will this order allocate, and how will the USSS further ensure President Trump’s protection?"
Lying in wait for 12 hours without detection, within rifle range of a protectee is deeply troubling,
It's also a crime to receive a gun with an obliterated serial number,
The Service clearly needs more resources, even though their budget has grown by 55 percent over 10 years,
There is a bomb I left on the site,
Schoenfeld, from Boca Raton, said in the voicemail to Trump's Florida golf course Hopefully you will get everyone evacuated, except for Trump,
she said, ... according to The Palm Beach Post Politically, a second assassination attempt could strengthen support among Trump supporters, but it is unlikely to move the needle by much for independents and undecided voters,
Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, told Newsweek I was playing golf with some of my friends on a Sunday morning and very peaceful, very beautiful weather... and all of a sudden we heard shots being fired in the air, and I guess probably four or five, and it sounded like bullets,
Multiple assassination attempts against Trump only make him more of a sympathetic figure,
Thomas Gift, an associate professor of political science and director of the Centre on U.S. Politics at University College London, told Newsweek I am glad he is safe. Violence has no place in America."
Both Harris and President Joe Biden have denounced the thwarted attack, with Harris writing in a post on X How do you think the Democrats and their media allies would respond if a 19-time Republican donor tried to kill a Democratic official? It's a question that answers itself. For years, Kamala Harris's campaign surrogates have said things like 'Trump has to be eliminated.'
Reject the idea that you can control what other people think and say. Embrace persuasion of your fellow citizens over silencing them—either through the powers of Big Tech or through moral blackmail,
The double standard is breathtaking,
Of course, I repeatedly condemned those threats,