Uh huh

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(I’m aware of this morning’s dismissal of the Jack Smith case against Trump, and feel free to comment below, but the decision will go up on appeal to the 11th Circuit and from there to the Supreme Court before judgement is truly “final”, so I choose to look at an issue that’s here and now, instead.)

One story: DHS Secretary Who Insisted the Border Was Secure Claims Trump's Had 'Enhanced Security' for Weeks. Denies the claims (below) that any agents were switched to Jill protection.

And here’s the other: Secret Service resources were diverted from Trump rally and sent off to protect the President’s baby sitter

>>> But that's not the only problem with Trump's security detail that day. Another source at the Secret Service told Crabtree that Trump's usual protective detail has been overworked, with agents working seven days a week without days off. Due to the strain, many agents assigned to Trump's detail on Saturday were temporary replacements from different field offices, and there were only two snipers. 

[Well, three, if you count Mr. Crook — Ed]

“Trump has a permanent detail, however it’s much smaller in the amount of bodies,” the source explained. “His detail has been worked so hard with all the travel that they’re working 7 days a week with shift changes. so HQ sends in temp agents to supplement - not a good scenario. Mission Failure, IMHO.”

Only one agent from Trump's permanent security detail was reportedly present.

"The Pittsburgh USSS Field Office had a Jill Biden visit and designated a lot of resources to her." 

“That is f***ing unbelievable to me,” the source told Crabtree.

Who to believe? I’d say that the results speak for themselves.

“It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye”

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More from “President ‘can’t we all get along?’: “Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He's a threat to our freedom He’s a threat to our democracy. He's literally a threat to everything America stands for.”

And then there’s this:

Don’t be fooled folks.

This is what unity looks like from Democrat politicians and many of their supporter’s. pic.twitter.com/RXz7KbQbGT

— Allen Lively (@AllenLivelyLOF)July 14, 2024

🚨Flashback to Lincoln Project cofounder Rick Wilson in 2023:

"They're still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump." pic.twitter.com/FqMFty7SlO

The Democratic super-donor, in a post on X, tried to clean up the inflammatory remarks he made last week while telling the audience at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference that he and fellow tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel had a falling out due to a “moral issue” — Thiel’s backing of Trump, according to a Friday report in Puck News.

Thiel, who was in the audience at the panel, spoke up and sarcastically thanked thanked Hoffman for putting money behind lawsuits against Trump, saying that the legal action had turned the 45th president into “martyr.”

“Yeah, I wish I had made him an actual martyr,” Hoffman reportedly replied.

I'm no conspiracist, but I look forward to learning who trained him, and where

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no deadeye dick, he

Would-be Trump assassin tried to join high school shooting club, was rejected for being ‘comically bad’ shot

The Pennsylvania man who attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump during a rally on Saturday  tried out for his high school’s rifle team, but he was rejected for being a “terrible” shot and making “off-color” jokes.

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A few years before the assassination attempt, Crooks tried out for the rifle team at Bethel Park High School, two former classmates told The Post.

The team at Bethel Park shoots Anschutz single-shot rifles with peep sights and .22-caliber ammunition, Jameson Murphy and another former student explained.

The shooting range at the school is 50 feet long by 21 feet wide, with seven ranges.

Crooks once fired from the seventh lane — the closest lane to the right wall — and hit the left wall, completely missing every target on the back wall. He missed his target by close to 20 feet, Murphy recalled.

“He tried out…and was such a comically bad shot he was unable to make the team and left after the first day,” Murphy said.

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Crooks – who has been described as a loner who wore hunting outfits to class – ”couldn’t shoot at all. He was a terrible shot,” the second classmate added.

Even the coach, they continued, had concerns about Crooks.

“Our old coach was a stickler, he trained Navy marksmen, so he knew people. He knew when someone’s not the greatest person,” the ex-classmate explained.

All this was “ few years ago”, and you can train almost anyone to be a marksman in less than three years — the military does, and even I have helped complete novices from a local Maine high school rifle team hit bullseyes in a single fall semester, but it does take practice: a lot of it, at a range, and almost certainly with an instructor — self-instruction, while certainly possible, is rare.

So this is a curious story.

Why would she have considered this inappropriate, give her boss's own position on the matter?

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“I’m shocked — shocked, I say, that any staffer of mine could think such a thing.”

Dem staffer axed after saying Trump gunman should have taken ‘shooting lessons so you don’t miss next time’

A staffer for a Democratic congressman from Mississippi was fired for her inflammatory comments saying she hoped the shooter who targeted Donald Trump “wouldn’t miss next time.”

“I don’t condone violence but please get you some shooting lessons so you don’t miss next time ooops that wasn’t me talking,” Jacqueline Marsaw wrote on Facebook Saturday evening, shortly after Trump narrowly avoided being shot in the head during a rally in Pennsylvania.

Marsaw, of Natchez, worked as a field director of Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Natchez Democrat reported.

Marsaw also wrote that the shooting – which killed one rally attendee and critically wounded two others – “couldn’t [have] happened to a nicer fellow,” though she insisted that it was a “staged” incident.

“That’s what your hate speech got you!” she added in a third post, seemingly referring to Trump’s often-controversial takes on social and political issues.

As of Sunday morning, all of the posts had been deleted.

(As was Miss Marsaw)

And here’s her boss just three months ago:

Daily Caller

Flashback: Dems Pushed Bill To Take Away Trump’s Secret Service Detail

April 19 2024: Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) on Friday introduced legislation that would strip Secret Service protection from convicted felons sentenced to prison, a bill clearly aimed at former President Donald Trump. 

“Unfortunately, current law doesn’t anticipate how Secret Service protection would impact the felony prison sentences of a protectee – even a former President,” Thompson, the former chairman of the House Jan. 6 select committee, said in a statement. 

“It is regrettable that it has come to this, but this previously unthought-of scenario could become our reality,” he added. 

“This measure would apply to former President Trump. It also would apply to all Secret Service protectees convicted and sentenced under felony charges,” according to a fact sheet.

Co-sponsors of the bill include Democratic Reps. Troy A. Carter Sr., Rep. Barbara Lee, Rep. Frederica Wilson, Rep. Yvette Clarke, Rep. Bonnie Coleman, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Joyce Beatty and Steve Cohen, according to the release.“This measure would apply to former President Trump. It also would apply to all Secret Service protectees convicted and sentenced under felony charges,” according to a fact sheet.

I saw this headline and thought, "BS", but no, it appears authentic. If Trump hadn’t turned his head ….

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A photo capturing the historic events of the shooting at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvaniashowed one of the bullets in the frame, just barely missing Trump’s head.

The photo, taken by New York Times photographer Doug Mills, showed a gray line just above Trump’s left shoulder. Another photo taken by Mills right after showed Trump checking his right ear, and a third one showed blood on his hand after taking it away from his ear.

And no protection at all for RFK, Jr.

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REPORTS: Trump Requested Heightened Security Resources from Secret Service For Weeks, Was Denied

Radio host, conservative commentator, and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino condemned the lax tactics of Donald Trump's Secret Service security detail after an assassination attempt Saturday afternoon and the murder of a rally attendee. Bongino laid particular blame at the feet of United States Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle. 

Just last Sunday Cheatle sat down with ABC News This Week with George Stephanopoulos and confidently claimed that there's "nothing specific and nothing credible," in terms of threats.

And This:

Trump’s Secret Service detail is just the fraction of the size of sitting presidents — with campaign continually asking for more protection: sources