By As we learn more and more about the events of last Saturday, Jill Biden’s pick for Secret Service director continues to blame anything but herself for the biggest security failure in decades.
That includes the slope of the roof from which the assassination attempt came.
The Washington Post reported that “Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said in a television interview Tuesday morning that part of the reason the agency did not require a police officer to stand atop the roof of the Agr building was its slope. “That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point, and so there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof,” she said. ‘So, you know, the decision was made to secure the building from inside.’
The roofs of the barns where sniper teams were located are more steeply sloped than the roof of the Agr building, a Post analysis of visuals from the event found.”
The glaring weakness at the top of the Secret Service has been revealed at a dangerous time for the former president. According to CNN, concerns about Donald Trump’s safety had been raised after American intelligence services got word that one American foe in particular had plans to try and take him out.
US authorities obtained intelligence from a human source in recent weeks on a plot by Iran to try to assassinate Donald Trump, a development that led to the Secret Service increasing security around the former president in recent weeks, multiple people briefed on the matter told CNN.
There’s no indication that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the would-be assassin who attempted to kill the former president on Saturday, was connected to the plot, the sources said.
The existence of the intelligence threat from a hostile foreign intelligence agency — and the enhanced security for Trump — raises new questions about the security lapses at the Saturday rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and how a 20-year-old man managed to access a nearby rooftop to fire shots that injured the former president.
It’s not clear whether the specifics of the Iran threat were shared with the Trump campaign, which said in a statement: “We do not comment on President Trump’s security detail. All questions should be directed to The United States Secret Service.”
For years, Iran has been vowing to avenge Trump’s order to kill Iranian general Qasem Soleimani with a drone strike in January 2020.
In 2022, The FBI released disturbing details that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has put a price on the heads of two former American leaders, former UN Ambassador and National Security Advisor John Bolton and former head of the CIA and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
According to an unsealed affidavit, U.S. law enforcement identified Shahram Poursafi as a member of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, currently wanted by the FBI for trying to hire hitmen to kill the two members of Trump’s White House team.
Prosecutors said the plot began a year after the United States killed the head of Iran’s paramilitary group who led that nation’s proxy wars to kill U.S. soldiers throughout the Middle East. Suleimani had plans to continue attacks on Americans when President Trump authorized the strike that killed him in Baghdad.
For several months, law enforcement officials have been apprehensive about the ongoing threat posed by Iran possibly targeting former Trump administration officials and the ex-president himself. Sources disclosed to CNN that a rise in operational plans have coincided with a marked increase in online activity from Iranian accounts and state-controlled media outlets mentioning Trump, amplifying security concerns among U.S. officials.
The Biden administration has been accused multiple times of having a soft spot for Iran, even going so far as to offer tacit approval for an attack against Israel and providing billions in funding despite the nation funding terrorism against American soldiers.
Last fall, an investigation revealed that Biden allowed Iran to plant alleged spies into the Pentagon and, after learning about it, allowed the accused to stay on the job.
Biden’s State Department has been accused of being filled with staffers sympathetic to Iran and Hamas, from Secretary of State Antony Blinken all the way down. The president’s “special envoy” to Iran, Robert Malley, was removed from office after an investigation revealed he had been working for Iran.
The New York Post reported that Malley “grew up with Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat as his unofficial ‘godfather’ and once wrote that the Israeli treatment of Arabs was ‘shameful.’” He is now teaching at Yale University.
Biden’s activist, anti-Israel allies have also allegedly received help from Iran, as well. ABC News wrote last week that “the Iranian government is covertly encouraging American protests over Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza in a bid to stoke outrage ahead of the fall election, the nation’s top intelligence official said Tuesday.
Using social media platforms popular in the U.S., groups linked to Tehran have posed as online activists, encouraged protests and have provided financial support to some protest groups, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said in a statement.”
“Iran is becoming increasingly aggressive in their foreign influence efforts, seeking to stoke discord and undermine confidence in our democratic institutions,” Haines told the news organization.
Leftist, anti-Israel activists have been praised by both Joe Biden and the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
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