Either The Secret Service Was Complicit In The Trump...

...assassination attempt, or each and every member of the USSS is an idiot.

Breitbart, August 1, 2024. Fox News first obtained the video — which James Copenhaver, one of the victims injured at the July 13 rally, filmed. In the video, an individual can be seen scurrying across the roof where Crooks later took the shots. According to Fox News, the video was taken at 6:08 p.m. If that is accurate, this occurred about three minutes before Crooks opened fire on Trump.

Copenhaver was critically wounded after being shot twice and is currently in a rehabilitation center, according to attorney Joseph Feldman at the Law Offices of Max C. Feldman. The lawyer told the outlet that Copenhaver “had almost seen or heard something whiz past him, which we’re assuming was a bullet.”

“He felt it on his arm, and he looked down at his arm…and felt pain initially, but he hadn’t even realized he had been shot a second time at that point. It could have been shock,” he added.

This unearthed video comes as the U.S. Secret Service continues to face congressional grillings after being unable to provide adequate answers to obvious questions about how Crooks was able to get a clear line of sight to the former president that day.

Adding to the unanswered questions is the fact that Crooks was somehow able to fly a drone in the area about two hours before the rally without raising any red flags. It also raises questions about how Secret Service counter-snipers were, supposedly, unable to see Crooks on the other roof.

On Tuesday, Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe testified to the Senate Homeland Security Committee that the Secret Service was not aware of Crooks until it heard gunshots.

“Based on what I know right now, neither the Secret Service counter-sniper teams nor members of the former president’s security detail had any knowledge that there was a man on the roof of the AGR building with a firearm,” Rowe told lawmakers.

“It is my understanding those personnel were not aware the assailant had a firearm until they heard gunshots,” he continued, adding that a Secret Service counter-sniper “neutralized the assailant within seconds after the assailant fired his weapon. That counter-sniper had full discretion to use deadly force to stop an attacker and did not need to seek authorization to fire.”

Rowe’s assertion follows the excuse former U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle initially offered for the roof not being covered, citing the “safety factor” of putting someone on a “sloped roof.”

During Tuesday’s testimony, Rowe also refused to say who it was, exactly, who had denied requests for more security from Trump’s security detail over the last two years.

RedState, August 1, 2024. As reported earlier, acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe has been on the hot seat this week while testifying before both the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committees.

The hearings revolve around the agency's abject failures before, during, and after the July 13th assassination attempt on 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, an attempt on the former president's life that was only thwarted thanks to a turn of Trump's head at the very last second.

"What I saw made me ashamed," Rowe, who took over after director Kim Cheatle resigned in disgrace, said in his opening statement in front of the joint committee. "I cannot defend why that roof was not better secured to prevent similar lapses from occurring in the future."

Perhaps Rowe was hoping the appearance of contriteness would soften the anticipated blows from committee members. If he was, he was sadly mistaken, as evidenced by how Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) ripped him to shreds over the fact that it is 17 days later and no one from the agency has been relieved of duty in the aftermath of the assassination attempt that left one Butler rally attendee, retired fire chief Corey Comperatore, dead and two others injured in addition to Trump:

Hawley appeared incredulous when Rowe indicated that the people who made decisions about the security perimeter at former President Trump's Pennsylvania rally and others involved with the communications breakdown had not yet lost their jobs. "What more do you need to investigate?" Hawley demanded. Rowe protested that Hawley was asking him to make a "rush to judgement" without thorough investigation of what happened. "I will not rush to judgement. People will be held accountable," Rowe said. But Hawley countered, "Is it not prima fascia that somebody has failed? The former president was shot.”