(Daily Signal)—It’s been six weeks since the attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the American public’s questions about the nature of the attack and the security failings that led to Trump’s brush with death largely remain unanswered.
Jason Chaffetz, a Fox News contributor and former Utah congressman who once chaired the House Oversight Committee, joined “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the apparent security failures and ongoing investigations into what transpired in Butler on July 13.
“I thought the extraction was very slow. I thought it was fairly pathetic,” Chaffetz told The Daily Signal. “It’s been illuminated more now that even though he was the Republican nominee, even though he was the former president, he wasn’t getting the full protective detail that a sitting president would get. And I have a problem with that.”
Chaffetz thinks the failures are structural. Poor recruitment and training, as well as heavy workloads, create a perfect storm for the kinds of security lapses witnessed on July 13 in Butler, Chaffetz suggested. These problems have long plagued the Secret Service.
When Chaffetz chaired the House Oversight Committee, he conducted the largest investigation into the Secret Service’s operations in American history. The investigation resulted in a more than 400-page report, “United States Secret Service: An Agency in Crisis.”
The former Utah congressman remains “skeptical” that the current investigations in Congress will yield the policy changes necessary to improve the Secret Service without Congress using the power of the purse to “hold them accountable.”
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SS same as any NAZI’S of Yesterday
Dissolve the failed system , arrest ever agent on duty on the day for
TREASON
Place every damn on on
TRIAL
YES, we need to start EXECUTING THESE TYRANTS, we know the CIA,FBI and SS tried to MURDER President Trump. If we don’t do accountability it will start all over again and we will have the same players as it has been for years. You get cockroaches in your house and just move, they MULTIPLY and spread, you EXTERMINAT them then they are GONE
The plan was to wack President Trump because he’s interfering with the creation of a global government with his MAGA initiative.
But God…
“Poor recruitment and training, as well as heavy workloads” are responsible?
Oh, so THAT explains how a 20 yr. old bozo singlehandedly outsmarted the Secret Service and dozens of law enforcement personnel by smuggling scoped AR-15, ammo, a rangefinder, and a ladder into the event; then climb atop the closest building and shoot a candidate in the head.
Yeah, let’s roll with that one.
All of these so-called failures happening within a short time frame and within a much-needed-to-be secured area is like someone walking into casino and winning the progressive millions on their first three spins! It’s impossible. As Robert Groden once said- “When does “coincidence” become conspiracy?”
The Regime’s assassination attempt failed.
Their next logical step is imprisonment.
While I don’t disagree with Jason Chaffetz, the failure at ALL levels regarding protectee security protocols is difficult to accept — seems more like a sloppy FBI/SS attempt!
The major points of any REAL investigation would be any and all contacts by Crooks at the Clairton Sportsman’s Club; any meetings at the Gallery Place in DC where the FBI has an entire floor of offices; the two Beaver County ESU countersnipers, Gregory Nicol and the tattoo arms guy — why and how they abandoned their assigned post and avoided contact with Crooks, who ran across FOUR building roofs; and, if reports were accurate that the Crooks family home in Bethel Park was SANITIZED before the police arrived?!