Two sources told NBC News that the Secret Service flagged a building near the rally site as a security concern. Investigators will be scrutinizing how a gunman was allowed to scale it.
The rooftop where a gunman shot at former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally was identified by the Secret Service as a potential vulnerability in the days before the event, two sources familiar with the agency’s operations told NBC News.
The building, owned by a glass research company, is adjacent to the Butler Farm Show, an outdoor venue in Butler, Pennsylvania. The Secret Service was aware of the risks associated with it, the sources said.
“Someone should have been on the roof or securing the building so no one could get on the roof,” said one of the sources, a former senior Secret Service agent who was familiar with the planning.
There is like literally four fucking rooftops near the vicinity of the stage and you didn’t think to secure one of them? Thanks for making Trump a hero mf.
Lmfao trump ain’t no hero. Getting shot at doesn’t instantly make you a better person. He was a piece of shit before getting shot at and I’m sure he’ll act more of a piece of shit after.
Has Trump said anything since the shooting? (Other than the announcement he clearly didn’t write?)
Normally we can never get the guy to shut up, two full days of silence when he can milk the publicity of this is baffling.
The realization people want you dead can do that though… This isnt The idea that people want to hurt you. But actually knowing they want to kill you. If you could continue thinking this was a outlier them your very naive.
The second worst thing that could have happened is trump not being assassinated.
The worst thing that could have happened is trump almost being assassinated.
The thing that most helped his chances happened. And of course this is a pure coincidence
based on this logic: if republicans want to really guarantee his victory they should shoot at him more
A successful assassination would’ve been the worst.
Do you really think if Hitler was assassinated anything changed? Maybe a leader with the same goals but without brain rot would’ve taken over, and not made critical blunders.
If people wouldn’t support Putin, he would be long dead by his closest men.
Republicans would have the same agenda but without the guy blurting it out whenever he can.
The machinery is running and you have to stop the machine, not the messenger.
Maybe a leader with the same goals but without brain rot would’ve taken over, and not made critical blunders.
People always say this, but I think it’s a rather facile analysis.
Fascism when fully instituted basically doesn’t work as a governing ideology. Many countries have tried it and many countries have found that out.
Sure, there’s sometimes encampments; there’s sometimes secret police; there’s sometimes using the military on your own countrymen; there’s sometimes genocides; there’s sometimes surveillance; there’s sometimes lots of things…but you know what it always breeds? A government full of distrusting, incompetent, loyalist boobs that are slaves to one man’s dumb ass ideas.
There is no competent version of fascism because one man alone cannot “fix it”. Even a singular genius cannot rule a modern country based upon just his own ideas, he has to have a group of competent people surrounding him, triaging issues, and analyzing different things…those type of people don’t tend to want to work for the type of backbiting, dark triad narcissists that nearly always sit at the center of fascist government.
Fascism leads to dark, terrible things, but it’s basically always, at its heart, a kakistocracy.
Well the US is headed for civil war one way or another, unless they get rid of their current supreme court.
Trump is very much an iconic, celebrity like figure. If you cut off his head, im not sure the republican hydra can magically regrow another head that does what he does.
