Intentional Incompetence! It’s Time For The GOP To Grow A Set

Where there is smoke, there is fire; when something stinks, there is usually something rotten. Since the assassination attempt on President Trump on Saturday, we have learned far too much for it all to be explained away as simply mistakes in judgment or incompetence. There is more to this story, and the GOP needs to keep constant pressure on until heads roll, and we get some semblance of the truth.

As a Republican, I am tired of settling for the lines of bullsh*t that the Democrats feed us. I’m also tired of exercising common sense and rational thinking and having the left call it a conspiracy theory. I admit that I don’t know precisely what occurred before, during, and after Trump’s rally on Saturday, but I don’t have to know exactly what happened to know that the story we’re hearing is a lie.

Let’s face it: the left doesn’t want us to know the truth, and since they were aware of whatever went down, they hold the magic envelope. However, that should not stop Republicans from doggedly and loudly pursuing the truth. It’s time to take a page out of the Democrat’s playbook and become a cohesive party that demands and doesn’t politely ask for answers.

This cannot be swept under the rug.

A former President of the United States was almost assassinated on Saturday.

Let me say that again in a slightly different way. This was not a piece of legislation that passed or failed. This is not the standard rhetoric that oozes out of D.C.

At a public location, on national TV, A former President, who is the front-runner to become the President again, was struck with an assassin’s bullet. This is not some page-six story. This is an attack on our democracy. Trump was within centimeters of being killed, which would have totally upended the November election and the democratic process of our nation.

Don’t be fooled. The politicians on the left and the hateful MSM will do everything within their power to downplay and move past what took place Saturday; don’t be dissuaded. This is THE most crucial story at this time and MUST be pursued until the general public understands that this story stinks.

Don’t be fooled. The Democrats and the MSM will try to spin our pursuit of the truth as causing instability. They will try to say that Republicans are being divisive and that “everyone needs to turn down the rhetoric.” Don’t be dissuaded.

The radical left has divided this country in ways never before considered. They created an atmosphere of hate that can be cut with a butter knife. They have pursued Trump and other conservatives with unconstitutional biases that were allowed by liberal local and state judges that will all eventually be thrown out if they get as far as the Supreme Court. The new term for this is “Lawfare,” which is a different way of saying “smear campaign” that involves the courts. All these trials have accomplished, much like the Russian collusion hoax, is to keep Trump painted in a negative light and to waste millions of taxpayer dollars to achieve it.

One point needs to be clarified before discussing some of the strange circumstances that occurred on Saturday. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle needs to be fired immediately. She is a staunch advocate of the DEI quota program, prioritizing diversity over merit. In addition, she is excellent at making excuses, but the lapses in protection on Saturday can only be described as “intentional incompetence.”

The fact that federal agents left an elevated roof line, with a direct line of sight to Trump, unprotected cannot be excused. Folks, this is not 1865 at Ford’s Theatre. This is 2024, with what is supposed to be the world’s most sophisticated and well-trained group of Secret Service agents. Simply put, … that roof can’t be left exposed. There are NO excuses for that.

The Secret Service has one job: protect the person or group of people you are there to safeguard. That job entails taking action first and asking questions later. There is no place for hesitation or indecision. The adage “it’s better to be safe than sorry” applies to everything they do.

Yet, on Saturday, they did the exact opposite. Federal law enforcement officials held a briefing with lawmakers to discuss the details of the shooting incident that occurred in Butler, Pennsylvania, almost resulting in the death of Trump on Saturday. During the briefing, officials from the USSS and FBI stated that the gunman, later identified as Thomas Crooks, was observed approximately 50 minutes before Trump took the stage to address the crowd.

One source familiar with the briefing told DCNF. “There was zero accountability from the Secret Service. They identified the shooter 60 minutes prior to the assassination attempt.”

It gets even worse. While initial reports from eyewitnesses included complaints about being seemingly ignored when they tried to alert authorities about the would-be assassin, local law enforcement told multiple news outlets that they had seen the suspect at least three times before the attempt on Trump’s life over the span of nearly 30 minutes.

According to BeaverCountian.com, three snipers were positioned inside the building where the suspect had climbed to take his shot. An officer confirmed this fact to CBS News.

“A Beaver County police officer warned a command center of seeing a man with a rangefinder before former President Donald Trump was shot on Saturday. The officer had also warned the man was scoping out the roof of the building he was stationed in as a counter-sniper and that the man returned with a backpack before ultimately scaling the building.”

A CBS News report described how one of the snipers took a picture of Crooks when he was spotted for a second time. The report stated, “Crooks disappeared again and then returned a third time with a backpack. The snipers reported that he had a backpack and was walking towards the back of the building.”

I hope that you are as infuriated as I am. Local police spot a man with a range finder scoping out the roof of a building, call it in and nothing is done? In case you’re not familiar, a rangefinder, also known as a range finding telemeter, is a device that measures the distance between the instrument and a selected object or point. They were initially optical devices used in surveying but have since found applications in other fields, such as photography, the military, and, in this case, a sniper’s victim.

Then the same person is spotted again, this time with a backpack, and nothing is done? This is deliberate ignorance. A man is seen with a rangefinder scoping out an unattended roof, a report is called in, and the Secret Service looks the other way.

At the briefing, one source reported that “Multiple members” who wanted to ask questions on the video call were not granted the opportunity to do so. “They did not have answers to basic questions,” the source told the DCNF, referring to the USSS and FBI.

The Secret Service also detected Crooks on the roof, from which he began shooting about 30 minutes before the gunfire started, as reported by ABC News, citing its own sources familiar with the briefing.

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has been lambasted for her response to the situation, which has included a statement to ABC News that security was not present on the roof from which Crooks opened fire because it is sloped.  She also unbelievably referred to the 30 minutes as “a very short period of time.”

Some lawmakers went public with their criticisms after the briefing.

“I just got off a briefing with the Secret Service and FBI. I am appalled to learn that the Secret Service knew about a threat prior to President Trump walking on stage,” wrote Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn in a Wednesday post. “I have no confidence in the leadership of Director Cheatle and believe it is in the best interest of our nation if she steps down from her position.”

Republican Utah Senator Mike Lee expressed a similar view in his post to X after the briefing.

“Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle needs to step down immediately. Today’s mostly information-free briefing only confirmed that. What little information she gave us was at once deeply troubling and glaringly incomplete.”

Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming held nothing back as he ripped the Secret Service after the briefing concluded. He posted the following on X.

“This was a 100 percent cover-your-ass briefing. He was identified as being suspicious one hour before the shooting. He had a range finder and a backpack. The Secret Service lost sight of him. No one has taken responsibility. No one has been held responsible. Someone has died. The President was almost killed. The head of the Secret Service needs to go.”

Earlier this year, a petition circulated within the Secret Service community expressing concern over “diversity, equity, and inclusion” initiatives in the agency following a physical altercation involving an agent at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.

Reports indicated that the female agent responsible for guarding Vice President Kamala Harris experienced a mental health breakdown for reasons that are not clear. She was later “removed from [her] assignment,” physically restrained, disarmed, handcuffed, and taken from the facility.

The issue of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) resurfaced when it was revealed that the woman involved had a concerning background, which, according to experts, would typically disqualify a potential Secret Service agent.

The petition specifically addressed concerns about DEI hiring superseding training and creating security issues, as reported by RealClearPolitics. This comes as the agency aims for a workforce that is 30 percent female by 2030.

More questionable decisions occurred on Saturday, such as agents being pulled off of Trump’s detail and instead sent to Jill Biden’s event in Pittsburgh. Reports that Trump’s staff requested increased security in the weeks before were also denied.

Still, nothing can outweigh the intentional incompetence that took place in Butler, PA, on Saturday. The Republicans cannot let this slide. This was an assassination attempt that was deliberately mishandled. First, Cheatle must go, as should anyone who is found to have disregarded protocol concerning neutralizing an obvious threat.

Incompetence is often used as a convenient excuse to mask intent, giving birth to the infamous line “Mistakes were made.” However, this was not a mistake; it was planned.

Going forward, we may never know exactly who set the stage for this, although the culprits can be easily reduced to a select few. In the meantime, once Cheatle is removed, Republicans need to look very hard at precisely who Thomas Matthew Crooks is, if that is really who he is. His part in this was also scripted. People knew he would be there, and he was allowed to do what he did. Conveniently, he is the only 20-year-old in the world with absolutely no online presence.

The GOP has the left backed into a corner. They need to unify and be relentless in pursuing those who are guilty. The radical left has crossed a line; the President was wounded, one man died, and others were critically injured.

It’s time to take the gloves off and expose the left’s disgusting underbelly to the world.