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This is just stupid. the guy that shot the shooter was on a sloped roof, and it was MORE sloped than the one the shooter was on. Sheesh.Cheatle admitted the agency knew the building rooftop was a security vulnerability but still opted not to position agents there, leaving it wide open for Crooks to take up an ideal sniper perch with an unobstructed view of Trump on stage.
From the roof, Crooks had a clear line of sight to the GOP nominee with his AR-style semiautomatic rifle, about 130 yards away.
Secret Service boss blames ‘sloped roof’ for not putting sniper team on building used by would-be Trump assassin
Embattled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle acknowledged the “buck stops with me” as she responded to criticism of her agency’s disastrous handling of former President Dona…nypost.com
Fire her.
I think you may be right. However, I'll just throw this out: Apparently the guy that actually shot the shooter had him in his sights for 3 minutes and was trying to get her approval. He wasn't able to fire on him until the shooter got is shots off. I'm tellin' ya. This seems eerily similar to the movie "Shooter".
So, the question is, was it intentional, or are they really just that stupid?
Hey, thank you.
I tried to use math to prove my point, and it worked partially.
Honestly, I forgot. It was a broadcast about the situation that embedded that information in the story.
This doesn't mention having the shooter in his sights for 3 minutes, but it does say that the snipers saw the shooter on the roof 20 minutes before any gunfire.
Officials said the snipers spotted the suspect, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, on the roof of a building outside the security zone at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, at 5:52 p.m. ET. The shooting happened at 6:12 p.m. ET, 20 minutes later, the sources said....According to the sources, the timeline presented in the briefing was as follows:
- 5:10 p.m. Crooks was first identified as a person of interest
- 5:30 p.m. Crooks was spotted with a rangefinder
- 5:52 p.m. Crooks was spotted on the roof by Secret Service
- 6:02 p.m. Trump takes the stage
- 6:12 p.m. Crooks fires first shots
Secret Service spotted Trump rally shooter on roof 20 minutes before gunfire erupted
Twenty minutes passed between the time USSS snipers first spotted Crooks on the roof and the time shots were fired at the former president, new information shows.abcnews.go.com
Thank you! I have to say that in the world of 1980 if someone was to ask me what my source was they'd probably just get the following: I heard it on the news. But, that being a fair question, it is a good question. And often the source turned out to be some flake or even some of the baloney the MSM provided and then casually just stopped reporting.This doesn't mention having the shooter in his sights for 3 minutes, but it does say that the snipers saw the shooter on the roof 20 minutes before any gunfire.
Officials said the snipers spotted the suspect, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, on the roof of a building outside the security zone at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, at 5:52 p.m. ET. The shooting happened at 6:12 p.m. ET, 20 minutes later, the sources said....According to the sources, the timeline presented in the briefing was as follows:
- 5:10 p.m. Crooks was first identified as a person of interest
- 5:30 p.m. Crooks was spotted with a rangefinder
- 5:52 p.m. Crooks was spotted on the roof by Secret Service
- 6:02 p.m. Trump takes the stage
- 6:12 p.m. Crooks fires first shots
Secret Service spotted Trump rally shooter on roof 20 minutes before gunfire erupted
Twenty minutes passed between the time USSS snipers first spotted Crooks on the roof and the time shots were fired at the former president, new information shows.ETA: The article does mention "3 minutes" here...New analysis by ABC News' visual verification team reveals that one of two sniper teams posted atop buildings to the north and south behind the rally stage repositioned before the first gunshots were fired. At 6:09 p.m., three minutes before the first gunshots rang out, the sniper team on the roof of the building south of the stage, the furthest away from the shooter’s location, repositioned, turning from the south to the north in the direction of the shooter’s location.
Totally true.
