It’s been two weeks since an assassination attempt was made on the life of the former President Donald Trump. This marked the first assassination attempt on a current or former president in over 40 years.
Despite this, the American people have been given few answers as to how this could have happened. As the investigation into this assassination attempt continues, a bombshell blunder on the part of the Secret Service has just come to light.
This disturbing blunder has raised even more questions about the happenings behind the scenes that allowed this assassination attempt on Trump to take place. Faith in the Secret Service is at an all-time low, and this revelation will certainly do nothing to change that.
From The Washington Examiner:
The Secret Service declined an offer from local law enforcement to use drone technology at the rally where a gunman took shots at former President Donald Trump, an anonymous whistleblower told Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO).Hawley revealed in a letter published Thursday to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that the whistleblower said the Secret Service “repeatedly” objected to using a drone that was capable of identifying and neutralizing an active shooter.
The whistleblower said a local law enforcement partner made the drone offers to the Secret Service the night before the rally, according to Hawley. The whistleblower said that after the shooting occurred, the Secret Service “changed course” and asked local police to use drone technology to surveil the scene, Hawley wrote.
What?!
If drone technology was being offered, what possible reason would the Secret Service have to refuse it? When a former president like Trump is speaking at a rally, the Secret Service should be using absolutely any piece of technology that is available to them to protect him.
Trump Gunman Used A Drone
This revelation is made even worse by what the FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted on Wednesday.
More from The Washington Examiner:
The revelation comes after FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed on Wednesday that Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, flew a drone over the rally site in Butler, Pennsylvania, about two hours before he carried out the shooting. Crooks was able to fire multiple shots into the rally crowd from a nearby rooftop, killing one, critically injuring two, and causing a minor injury to Trump.Wray said the FBI reverse-engineered the drone’s flight path and found that Crooks flew it around roughly 200 yards from the stage where Trump later spoke and livestreamed the site for about 11 minutes.
“This raises an obvious question: why was the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) not using its own drones?” Hawley wrote.
Why indeed?!
So when it came to technology, a 20 year-old gunman had a leg up on the U.S. Secret Service heading into this Trump rally.
It simply does not get much more pathetic than that.
This makes it all the more disturbing that the former Secret Service head Kimberly Cheatle waited nearly two weeks to resign from her post. It can no longer be denied that this assassination attempt on Trump’s life can be partly blamed on the incompetence of the Secret Service.
Moving forward, it’s clear that the Secret Service needs to make some serious changes. Current and former presidents deserve better protection than this. It will certainly be interesting what other revelations come to light from the investigation into the Trump assassination attempt in the days and weeks to come.
Key Takeaways:
- Secret Service refused offer to use drone technology before Trump assassination attempt.
- The Trump gunman used a drone to scope out the Trump rally site.
- Why would the Secret Service not want to use drones to protect Trump?
Source: The Washington Examiner
