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There was a front element. It did its job of sweeping ahead of the president. That's what identified this individual, who was in that wood line. The swift action of that agent — doing his job, pushing out ahead, sweeping, while the president was behind him, several hundred yards and several holes away, out of sight from the gunman — did his job, and that was what alerted the detail and the swift action of what took place,
But also, one thing to consider here is that both of those shooters were totally incompetent fools,
he added, referring to the past two attempts on Trump’s life You basically have a rolling security perimeter, and that little package goes with you wherever it goes,
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 They put themselves between that shooter and the president and there's no mistaking that,
It was pretty awesome to watch them, and they were heroic, because their lives were on the line, they were exposed,
They had the president secured, in my estimation, because I was five yards away from him, maybe after the first shot, certainly after the second shot,
Routh was asked if he knew why he was being stopped,
I mean, he feels that her political beliefs are far to the left. He feels that that that reminds him of Marxist ideology,
Does he think that it’s possible that along the way, mistakes could have been made? Well, I mean, yes, mistakes could have been made, and in this case, lives could be lost because of such, because of a mistake."