This is an opinion column.

Is anyone else sick and tired of this? I lost faith a long time ago in the CIA, then with the Hillary debacle and the phony Russian dossier I lost trust in the FBI, then over the last few years I lost faith in the Fed, and now I give up on the secret service. How many more institutions do we have to lose faith in?

Please explain to me why no Secret Service agents or police vehicles were covering the
perimeter of the golf course on both sides of the hedge row (along a public street)? Why? Why? Why? How dumb is the Secret Service? How stupid do you have to be after a prior
assassination attempt from a distance not to cover one entire side of the golf course when a presidential candidate is going to be golfing right alongside it? Where the hell is the line of bulletproof glass panels? Why wasn’t a simple opaque fabric barrier put up on the fence to prevent the public from seeing from the public street to the golf course? It could be just like the netting behind-the-field goalposts at the NFL games that get pulled up when a kick is going to occur.

This is the kind of Secret Service stupid that leads to conspiracy theories – like, does the Secret Service really care about preventing Trump from being killed? Is Biden behind the lack of providing appropriate resources?

Do some people want another Bobby Kennedy type of killing to take out a presidential candidate? (What happens if a candidate is taken out? Does the VP candidate, if he wins, become the president?)

Thank goodness that Trump had the smarts to select a VP running mate that is also not a
career politician, but I would have to say, that if Trump is killed by all these crazy lefties, we’ll probably have a civil war. I don’t see people putting up with this and going home. They’re going to hit the streets, they’re going to march on Washington DC.

One thing that is common to both assassination attempts is that everyday American people
stepped up – by spotting the first shooter and now the public stepped up again by getting the license plate and description of the shooter’s car and identifying him to police so they could quickly apprehend him. They damn well better have the suspect under 24/7 in-person surveillance.

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting really sick and angry at all this. A small amount of
common sense would have prevented this. But nope, and then they double down – that idiot talking at the FBI press conference said, “If they get into the hedge row, they’re pretty much invisible” or words pretty close to that. How dumb is that? What kind of excuse for their stupidity is that? Then he said that because Trump is “only a candidate at this time”  that he doesn’t have more resources. Excuse me?! He’s a former president and he’s likely the future president and he already had one attempt on his life. That entitles him to receive whatever it takes to prevent another assassination attempt. I don’t care what it takes. The cost of democracy being taken out with Trump being taken out would prove far more costly.

Plus, it’s pretty simple to have a dozen agents surround him as he is teeing off or taking a putt, or striking the ball? And those agents damn well better be tall, not those short agents they had in Butler. Agents need to be the same height as their protectee.

The only person that I will commend is the one Secret Service agent – that he saw the gun
sticking through the hedge row and he apparently took a shot at the suspect without having to wait and call headquarters to get permission from the prior poor leadership that has been forced out.

After the election though, the Secret Service needs to be overhauled. Stop focusing on requiring them to state their pronouns in their emails and start refocusing on the core mission, which is protecting candidates and dignitaries and elected officials.

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