Staff Reports
Erik Prince, brother of Trump’s stalwart Betsy DeVos, wasted no time in pummeling the Secret Service for its shocking blunder during the recent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. One has to wonder if the Secret Service personnel were on coffee break; otherwise, how does a would-be assassin get within 150 yards? Prince called out the Secret Service for being either malevolent or woefully incompetent. Did someone forget their job description?
It’s no surprise to hear Prince’s frustration—he’s the guy who built Blackwater from the ground up. He didn’t mince words when he sarcastically noted that Trump’s survival was sheer happenstance, thanks to a shooter’s bad wind estimate. So, congratulations are apparently in order for Mother Nature, not the protectorate force paid to guard a former President. Can bureaucratic ineptitude get any more glaringly obvious?
Hopefully after the tragedy yesterday in Butler PA we can all recognize that unaccountable bloated bureaucracies continue to fail us as Americans.
Donald J Trump is alive today solely due to a bad wind estimate by an evil would be assasin.
As the graphics show the full value… pic.twitter.com/VU6JYDxiVM— ErikDPrince (@realErikDPrince) July 14, 2024
Prince didn’t stop there. He pointed fingers at the uncoordinated circus act that was the Secret Service’s response. He said anyone who’s even casually played a game of Capture the Flag knows you need a secure perimeter—suggesting the Secret Service must have skipped that day in training. Prince demanded accountability and a transition to merit-based hiring. Call it a revolutionary idea: hiring people who can actually do the job.
Meanwhile, President Sleepy Joe Biden decided to review the security protocols for the coming Republican National Convention. An independent review was launched, which, judging by past bureaucratic endeavors, can be expected to conclude exactly how high the taxpayers’ dollars can pile up—and that’s about it. The FBI is now on the case, potentially using the opportunity to send more thoughts and prayers instead of actual reforms.
House Speaker Mike Johnson and other lawmakers are advocating for a detailed investigation, putting Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and others in the hot seat. Really bold to assume accountability will suddenly start kicking in after all these years. But hey, it’s an election cycle; miracles do happen, apparently.
Eyewitnesses revealed puzzling details, pointing out that it was local law enforcement who first spotted the shooter. An officer had the shooter in sights but had to duck once a rifle was pointed back at him. Secret Service counter-snipers responded just in time to create chaos instead of preventing it. The gunman, identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, took multiple shots, wounding Trump and tragically killing a bystander before being neutralized. It took a village, but not the protective one taxpayers are feeding.
The ongoing investigation will delve into how rooftop access was so laughably easy and how the Secret Service managed to evade their duty as effectively as the shooter evaded them. While the bureaucrats shuffle their paperwork, here’s hoping someone in charge realizes that a strong wind shouldn’t be the nation’s security plan.
