Secret Service BLAMES Local Police For Deadly Shooting At Trump Rally

Daily Report July 15,2024

Local police have been blamed by the Secret Service for not adequately covering the rooftop from which Thomas Matthew Crooks allegedly attempted to murder former President Donald Trump.

Secret Service officials have explained that it was beyond the “outer perimeter” of the area their federal agency was defending against attack.

Anthony Gugliemi, a Secret Service representative, informed The New York Times that protecting and patrolling the factory grounds at AGR International Inc., which was about 130 yards from the stage where Trump had been detained by police late Saturday evening, was the responsibility of Pennsylvania local police.

Although the Secret Service has been given the responsibility of ensuring security measures in and around the rally, local police are called upon to assist and increase the perimeter of protection.

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“Nobody contacted me. Nobody. Nobody called me, nobody stopped here,” said Valerie Fennell, whose home backs up on the fair grounds and is just beyond a stand of trees from AGR.

“I kinda was thinking that as close as my house is, that I honestly thought this might be part of a command station at some point,” she said.

And it wasn’t just Fennell who wasn’t contacted by law enforcement — she said her entire neighborhood was bafflingly left alone despite their proximity to the rally grounds.

“I was talking to my neighbors yesterday, and none of them had gotten a call. Or anything,” she said, while her sister, Debra, agreed.

“I guess it’s kind of the same question that everybody has. I guess, as far as like, why that area wasn’t secure.”

Meanwhile, reports of security lapses did not stop during the event. A CNN article notes that attendees observed Thomas Crooks acting suspiciously near the metal detectors.

It is not surprising that voices are rising to denounce the Secret Service and its lackluster protection which led Crooks within a hair’s length of assassinating Trump.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has announced he will be calling in Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle for hearing testimony on July 22.