Secret Service agents detailed to Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, PA last month were specifically told by headquarters in Washington not to request any additional security for the outdoor rally where a sniper wounded the former president, and that if they made any request, it would be denied.
A sex offender who allegedly threatened to assassinate former President Donald Trump was busted in Arizona after a three-day manhunt — close to where the Republican presidential candidate had arrived to speak about the border crisis, according to authorities.
Robert Lee Syvrud, 66, was arrested during a traffic stop at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in Cochise County — where Trump had arrived around noon as a guest of Sheriff Mark Dannels.
h/t PA Cat
In Bob Dylan’s criminally overlooked 2003 cinematic masterpiece, “Masked and Anonymous,” a newspaper editor tells a reporter: “I will tell you this, there is a story there… Make something out of it. And if you can’t do that, sir, then — make it up!” It’s advice that actual journalists today all too often follow. Sometimes, however, they get caught, as PBS just was.
Three weeks ago, Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe angrily pushed back on senators’ calls to immediately fire or discipline key agents directly responsible for the security failures that led to the assassination attempt against former President Trump at last month’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Since that time, Secret Service leaders have placed several members of the Pittsburgh Field Office on administrative leave, according to three sources in the Secret Service community.
CHICAGO – A former United States ambassador to Canada is sounding the alarm that a second Donald Trump presidency would cause chaos for Canadians as he urged Americans abroad that their votes could prove crucial in the presidential election.
Bruce Heyman, who served as ambassador from 2014 to 2017, gave Canada a “tsunami warning,” saying if Trump takes the White House, Canada is at great risk.
With the Harris candidacy, any fig leaf that a candidate Clinton or Biden may have offered of “moderation” falls away.
As the DNC meets in Chicago this week to formally anoint its selected presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, consider the unexpected pass that the “Never Trump” phenomenon — comprised of apostate Republicans and self-described conservatives — has come to.
Conservatives should have no difficulty voting for Harris
Among the roster of speakers at this year’s Democratic National Convention are several representatives of a demographic group not traditionally considered part of the Democratic coalition: Republicans.
They include former Congressman Adam Kinzinger, former Lieutenant-Governor of Georgia Geoff Duncan, and former White House officials Stephanie Grisham and Olivia Troye. But the list of prominent conservatives and Republicans to have endorsed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is a lot longer.
Incurable TDS.
It’s a challenging task but we here at NewsBusters are going to try to sift through all the crazy, angry and ridiculous observations made by leftist journalists every night of the Democratic National Convention coverage and pick one for Worst of the Night.
So without further ado, the Worst Media Outburst for Tuesday night goes to MSNBC anchor Alex Wagner for excitedly proclaiming the idea of a President Kamala Harris has to be “distressing” if you are “a part of the white patriarchy like Donald Trump” and his “supporters.”
Just before Donald Trump held a rally in Doral, Fla., on July 9, Secret Service officials delivered his campaign a message: The former president and his advisers would notice additional security because the U.S. government had credible intelligence of threats against him.
“The bad guys are at it again,” an adviser said, describing the Secret Service’s message.
Since Joe Biden exited the 2024 presidential race four weeks ago, the liberal networks have delivered an unprecedented boost of positive publicity to his successor in the race, Vice President Kamala Harris. Not only has Harris received 66% more airtime than former President Donald Trump, but the spin of Harris’s coverage has been more positive (84%) than any other major party nominee, even as Trump’s coverage has been nearly entirely hostile (89% negative).
Donald Trump is going to be sentenced to prison. It’s absurd, it’s unjust, and it’s another body blow to the idea that America is a free republic where dissent is not just tolerated, but welcomed, and any man can get justice, no matter the color of his skin, contents of his wallet, or nature of his political opinions. All that is dead now, or dying, and even though Trump is unlikely actually to serve time, the sentence is coming as inevitably as fall follows summer.
A police sniper potentially saved lives by shooting the rifle of Donald Trump’s would-be assassin and knocking him down, an investigation says.
According to a report by Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins, the sniper’s bullet damaged Thomas Matthew Crooks’s gun and disrupted his aim after he took his first shots in Butler, Pennsylvania. Moments later, a Secret Service sniper killed him.
The report comes as the Secret Service temporarily reassigns some bodyguards from President Joe Biden to Trump, according to US media.
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Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins has blasted the FBI for releasing attempted Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks’ body to his family for cremation days after the shooting — calling it “disturbing” that the agency would impede further investigation.
The Republican congressman said he discovered that Crooks’ body was handed over to his family when he requested to examine it during his visit to the Butler, Pennsylvania rally site to investigate the shooting.
Famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes would often note “’When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
Applying this same logic to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, it is obvious they tried to put an end to this pesky threat to their power.
Former president Donald Trump is set to file a $100 million lawsuit against the Justice Department over the FBI’s unprecedented raid of his Mar-a-Lago estate two summers ago, a highly controversial move that preceded special counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents case against him.
