‘Deep State’ failed to protect Trump

Donald Trump’s core critique, the one that has led him to face a Ruling Class onslaught that has  seen him spied upon, slandered as a Russian agent, sabotaged, impeached, indicted, gagged –facing political, legal, and character assassination is that our institutions are so corrupted and incompetent that the purported experts who run them cannot or will not execute their most basic functions. 

The failed literal assassination attempt against former president Donald Trump – one that comes in an environment of hysteria and outrage fueled by the very Ruling Class that repeatedly called him a fascist, a would-be Hitler who aims to destroy democracy – vindicates Trump’s critique. 

The Secret Service has a singular mission: To protect the life and limb of protectees.

Unfathomably, this critical organ of the most powerful and sophisticated security apparatus in the history of mankind failed in spectacular fashion on July 13 in Butler County, Pennsylvania.

It allowed a would-be assassin with supposedly little tactical capability, supposedly operating alone, to assume a position a stone’s throw from the former president and fire at him, piercing his ear with a bullet.

The number of failures culminated in the shots fired at the president are so egregious and voluminous as to defy belief.

let’s go through a few of them

Well in advance of the tragic incident, the shooter’s parents called law enforcement fearful he was missing. 

Three hours before the shooting, reports show authorities observed that the shooter possessed a rangefinder. 

Reports indicate he had somehow hid his rifle near the Trump rally, yet security … never found it.

There were no drones flying in the air over the rally.

An hour prior to the shooting, the Secret Service flagged the shooter as a “person of interest.” Counter-snipers at one point saw the shooter scanning for them, with the Secret Service telling lawmakers the shooter was spotted with a rangefinder 40 minutes prior to the shooting. 

20 minutes before the assassination attempt – and ten minutes before Trump took the stage – Secret Service saw the shooter on the roof of the building from where he would fire. 

Authorities reportedly occupied the building, but didn’t secure its roof! 

Despite the threat, they let Donald Trump go on stage. 

And minutes before the shooting, screaming civilians observed the shooter crawling into firing position.

Supposedly the delay in shooting him may have been because counter-snipers lacked a clear line of sight to the roof. 

After authorities eliminated the shooter, Trump stood once again exposed as a target on stage by agents too short to cover him. 

Finally, security rushed the former president to an exit vehicle, where an agent flanking him strained to simply holster her gun.

Whether the Secret Service failed to properly plan, resource, communicate, and/or act – and some have said it was constrained by suicidal rules of engagement requiring shooting at would-be assassins only after receiving fire – this was an unmitigated disaster.

It was an inexplicable disaster.

There are only two possible explanations for what transpired: 

That, notwithstanding the courageous actions of some agents, the Secret Service is grossly incompetent, or that something more sinister was afoot.

Gross incompetence would be by far the best explanation. It is buttressed not only by the failures, but the fact they come from a security service led by a director picked seemingly out of personal favor over merit by the Bidens, who indicated that agents may not have been perched on the roof from which the shooter fired because of its dangerous “slope.”

The Secret Service has suffered many scandals ranging from White House fence jumpings, to abiding dangerous approaches of presidents, and the compromising conduct of carousing agents in Cartagena.

Congressional investigators were probing allegations of inadequate training among agents.

Past evidence shows the agency suffers from mission creep. 

DEI policies pervade the agency, suggesting it is prioritizing political correctness over the mission.

The more disturbing and conspiratorial conjectures about what transpired are fueled in part by disbelief the Secret Service could have failed so badly, plus the patsy-esque profile of the shooter, the evasiveness of authorities over basic questions about what transpired, and that the untrusted, Trump-targeting FBI is leading the probe into the failures.

More broadly, the national security and law enforcement apparatus has served as the leading edge of the effort to politically and legally destroy Donald Trump dating back to Russiagate.

To alleviate conspiratorial concerns, the security state is going to have to explain how it could have failed so badly and in so many respects, and why we should believe it.

Whether driven by gross incompetence or something more nefarious, the Deep State that has for years targeted Trump and millions of dissenting Americans failed to protect the former president’s life last Saturday.

The failures proved his critique of the administrative state and our leading institutions correct.