The Biden-appointed Director of the Secret Service, which has become the poster child for incompetency following the agency’s failure to prevent an assassination attempt on President Donald Trump last Saturday, said the reason her agents didn’t post people on the roof the shooter used is because the building had a “sloped roof” that was a “safety concern.”
For SECRET SERVICE SNIPERS.
“That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof,” said Kimberly Cheatle, who has so far refused to resign following the debacle. “And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside.”
Except the supposed mortal danger of a slightly canted rooftop didn’t stop the barely-pubescent shooter from accessing the roof from the outside by using a ladder to get on top of the building.
In the broad daylight.
In full view of the public, many of whom were literally screaming at nearby cops that someone was on the roof.
But perhaps most interesting is the fact that the roof that Secret Service snipers were actually on? The one they used to shoot back at the gunman, that one? Yeah, it was sloped.
Observe:
Cheatle also admitted the event’s command center was notified of a person on the roof before the gunman began firing, but claims that they just didn’t have enough time to react before the shooting started.
“The shooter was actually identified as a potential person of suspicion,” Cheatle told ABC. “Unfortunately, with the rapid succession of how things unfolded, by the time that individual was eventually located, they were on the rooftop and were able to fire off at the former president.”
So let’s just get this straight, here. Cheatle, whose last job before taking the head honcho spot on the Secret Service was guarding the Mountain Dew bottles for PepsiCo, says the slight embankment of the roof was too much of a “whoopsie” hazard for her agents who are literally tasked with protecting the life and safety of the President of the United States, so instead the area was left unsecured enough that a 20-year-old dude with a rifle could scale it at his leisure and take a shot at Trump’s head.
And we’re supposed to have faith in her leadership, and accept the fact that she won’t resign.