USSS said they would 'take care of' slanted roof building Crooks used to shoot Trump

According to an investigation by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Secret Service agents assured Butler County, PA law enforcement that they would secure the AGR building with the scary slanted roof that would-be assassin Thomas Crooks used to shoot former President Donald Trump and others on July 13, Fox News reported.

"Butler County law enforcement officials stated that at separate times during the walkthrough, when they reiterated their concerns to the agents and counter sniper about securing the AGR complex buildings, the agents responded: ‘we will take care of it,’" Grassley's office revealed in a Tuesday letter to Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe.

So who's lying? Butler County PD or the Secret Service whose job it is to protect the President, presidential candidates and others and who ultimately has the responsibility to that end in spite of having assistance from outside agencies?

Trump came within millimeters of being struck in the head during the outdoor rally, and three others in the massive crowd were struck and critically injured, one of whom, Corey Comperatore, was killed by the gunman who was perched merely 130 yards from the Republican presidential nominee.

The shooter was known to law enforcement and he was observed ahead of the event with a range finder but did not call attention to himself because his shirt was not labeled 'Assassin.'

Grassley questioned Rowe whether the Butler County law enforcement officials' claim is true and, if so, what the Secret Service did to secure the area with the AGR complex buildings. He also noted weeks prior to the first assassination attempt that Rowe told his fellow senators during a hearing that "what was communicated is that the locals had a plan and that they had been there before," regarding the roof the AGR building.

Sen. Grassley's staff interviewed law enforcement officials and said that this was disputed by them.

During a walkthrough on July 11, while preparing for the rally, Secret Service agents allegedly promised to secure the AGR complex area. The law enforcement officials said they had already warned the agents about their safety concerns several times during the visit.

The Republican again mentioned his many requests for information to the Secret Service, and noted that at least two of his requests resulted in claims "that it would not provide responses to my requests due to other ongoing investigations and reviews."

"That’s unacceptable and fails to take into consideration Congress’s constitutional authority to conduct independent oversight. It also flies in the face of your congressional testimony about responding to Congress," Grassley charged.

Senator Grassley's ongoing independent investigation is delving into several critical incidents, such as the assassination attempt on July 13. Additionally, he is examining the recently uncovered plot by Asif Merchant, an alleged Iranian agent, who intended to assassinate a politician or a U.S. official, potentially former President Trump. Another focus of Grassley's probe is the second assassination attempt on Trump, which occurred in Florida on Sunday.

Meanwhile, Biden and Harris are supposedly running the country.

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The Secret Service secrets surface and boy are there secrets

What is slowly becoming more obvious is that the US Secret Service (USSS) isn't as competent as a small Pennsylvania PD with fewer than 20 cops after what we are seeing post-Trump assassination attempt. [Oh, by the way, Google has put Trump on the list of assassination attempts on US Presidents, but it took the public outcry to get them to do it. All you would get at first was Truman and a bunch of others, but not Trump.]

USSS's new Director keeps slowly leaking more details at the speed of molasses strained through a coffee filter. And the so called 'news' coverage is a joke. The details we get, however, seems to paint the Secret Service as a less innocent player in the event.

In their traditional "bury the news" strategy, Interim Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe, along with his bizarre buzzcut, held a late Friday news conference. He said "we accept full responsibility" but really took no responsibility and told us little of what the $3 billion agency did at Trump's rally to protect him and other high-value targets.

We learned, however, that the Secret Service had NO RADIO COMMUNICATION with local POLICE and NO RADIO COMMUNICATION with the ANTI-SNIPERS. The vital communications were made via texts over an overloaded cell phone network.

There were NO SECRET SERVICE recordings of communications but THERE ARE OF THE LOCAL POLICE.

The responsibilities of the local snipers was made up by the USSS and if it weren't for the locals, we would know much less.

The Secret Service COMMAND CENTER was NOT CO-LOCATED with the local POLICE.

The investigators have YET to talk to the local police who were assisting the USSS, including the snipers (after three weeks!)

Butler, PA was the VERY FIRST TIME that the USSS PROVIDED SNIPERS FOR a TRUMP rally this election cycle.

The normal complement of Secret Service intelligence officers had been pulled from the rally!

If this is not the definition of a clusterfrack [misspelled on purpose] I don't know what is. They weren't even attempting to work with local law enforcement.

At a news conference Friday, acting Secret Service director Ronald Rowe Jr. acknowledged that there were separate communications hubs that did not effectively share information in vital moments. “There might have been radio traffic that we missed. We have to be better on that,” he said.

No kidding, Sherlock.

Rowe repeatedly emphasized that the rally shooting was a failure by the Secret Service, not local law enforcement. “If the large majority of our partners are in a unified command post or in a different location, we need to probably be there, too,” Captain Obvious said.

“We’re certainly going to examine the communication aspect very closely,” Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Secret Service, said in response to questions from The New York Post.

At the time of the attempted assassination on the former President's life, Rowe was the deputy director in charge of ensuring that the protection resources and plans were in place to ensure this didn't happen. He was appointed to replace the execrable Kimberly Cheatle as the director by the indescribably corrupt Secretary of Homeland Security, who has been on an anti-Trump crusade for years.


It's not just the media who are memory-holing the assassination attempt, it is the Secret Service as well.

Let's not forget, the shooter was able to get off EIGHT SHOTS before they got him. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. 

Bang.

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