- Trump’s head is fully exposed to hundreds of people with elevation advantage (lol at that one agent shielding Trump’s fat head with his hand)
- Secret service detail is entirely focused on moving the large son, they seem to have complete tunnel vision. Someone could’ve jumped out the stand and get a few stabs in even if they were immediately shot
- The only SWAT guy is also point man and he seems to be doing cursory checks in his path (like there’s no way he can spot a threat in the crowds on each side of him).
- The camera pans to the exit, and there’s still like 50 attendees around the area, a couple of local cops without weapons drawn just standing around like they’re waiting for a burger, and Trump’s detail is all focused on pushing his ass into the limo without really monitoring the surroundings
I know they have snipers at the event, but how many? Surely not enough to monitor the entire crowd of thousands while a dozen or so people are entirely focused on a narrow path. I know bodyguards’ are primarily task with moving the VIP to safety, but why is no one telling anyone to move back or have more people guarding the path? In this video and others, you can see random photographers running right up to the security’s pathway to snap photos. Surely this is a potential threat during an assassination attempt
Idk if the ss is competent or not these days, but there’s vastly more to what they do than when they’re standing around the president on the day of. Lots of intel and counter-intel work. People don’t try to shoot the potus that often, and the ones who do tend to rant about it a lot.
The nature of things have changed too, the kid did aerial recon with his own personal drone before going to the event. He had improvised explosives. He could have done a lot of things with enough ingenuity.
Just wait until someone tries an assassination directly via explosive-armed commercial drone. I think it’s only a matter of “when”, not “if”.
Well that’s true. I imagine their recon and support teams are hard at work, except the snipers who watched Crooks for like 20 minutes, but the protection job seems very sloppy. Like not even a kevlar blanket lol. Just using your hand.
