OAN Staff Zach Petersen
1:05 PM – Friday, July 19, 2024
A new timeline of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump is leaving experts with even more questions.
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The Secret Service and the FBI have privately briefed Congress on the assassination attempt on President Trump. Several details emerged from those closed-door meetings with the House and Senate on Wednesday.
Notably, the would-be assassin was identified as a ‘person of interest’ over an hour before shots were fired. 20-minutes later, Thomas Matthew Crooks was spotted with a range-finder and a backpack.
Crooks was then spotted on a rooftop by Secret Service a full 10-minutes before Trump took the stage.
Counter sniper experts are dumbfounded how someone could have gained access to a rooftop of virtually the only structure in the immediate area, with a direct line of sight to the stage, about 150-yards away.
Earlier this week, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle claimed they didn’t put agents on top of roof because it was slanted.
Rob O’Neill, the Navy Seal who killed Osama bin Laden in 2011, said “thank god bin Laden didn’t have a slanted roof.”
What’s even more puzzling is that local police were using the structure that Thomas Mathew Crooks climbed and shot at the president from as a staging area. Additionally, the building was filled with law enforcement armed to the teeth.
However, Special Forces sniper Tim Kennedy says there was a catastrophic failure at all levels.
It starts with the feds, where the Secret Service and the DHS have deteriorated into a culture of mediocrity, equality and inclusion replacing speed, competency and experience.
This is reflected in a multitude of tactical errors by teams on the ground, even seen by the hesitancy of counter-snipers to take the shot.
There was a communication breakdown over the threat as it took 86 seconds to relay a perceived threat.
Kennedy was in France with Biden’s Secret Service detail just a few weeks ago.
He said those guarding Biden are the cream of the crop, the A-team, but those guarding Trump are far from it.
Rob O’Neill agrees with that assessment.
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