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Sheesh, how the Secret Service has declined.
I got trained by them in the early 1980s and worked with them
on details that were close to my Law Enforcement agency.
I worked on details from POTUS Reagan, Clinton, the Queen of
England, King of Norway, and Secretaries of State from
1982 to 2001.
If this was "boosted protection" and they still let that young
amateur and his rifle come within about 1" of killing Trump,
it was a real lucky day and sad performance.
Hopefully now they have been exposed, they should get serious!

from
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/16/trump-iran-kill-plot-secret-service.html

Iran plot to kill Trump prompted Secret Service to boost protection
before rally shooting
PUBLISHED TUE, JUL 16 20242:54 PM EDTUPDATED WED, JUL 17 20249:57 AM EDT thumbnail
Dan Mangan
@_DANMANGAN

KEY POINTS
The United States obtained intelligence about an Iranian plot to
assassinate former President Donald Trump in recent weeks.
That intelligence led the U.S. Secret Service to increase security
around Trump, who is the Republican presidential nominee, the officials
said.
The intelligence and boosted security occurred before Trump was targeted Saturday in an attempted assassination by Thomas Crooks at a campaign
rally in Pennsylvania.
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump
is assisted by the Secret Service after gunfire rang out during a
campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S.,
July 13, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump
with his bloodied face is assisted by the Secret Service as multiple
shots rang out during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in
Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 13, 2024.
Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters
The Secret Service increased its protection for Donald Trump in recent
weeks after U.S. officials obtained intelligence about an Iranian plot
to assassinate the former president, three officials briefed on the
matter told NBC News on Tuesday.

The intelligence was acquired and Trump’s security heightened before the Republican presidential nominee was targeted in an attempted
assassination by 20-year-old gunman Thomas Crooks at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.

CNN first reported the news of the Iranian plot, which raises more
questions about the Secret Service’s failure to prevent the shooting by Crooks from a nearby building’s rooftop.

There are no known links between Crooks and the Iran plot.

“Upon learning of the increased threat, [the National Security Council] directly contacted [United States Secret Service] at a senior level to
be absolutely sure they continued to track the latest reporting,” a
national security official told NBC News.

“USSS shared this information with the detail lead, and the Trump
campaign was made aware of an evolving threat,” the official said. “In response, Secret Service surged resources and assets for the protection
of former President Trump. All of this was in advance of Saturday.”

Anthony Guglielmi, the chief spokesman for the Secret Service, in a
statement to CNBC, said, “The Secret Service and other agencies are constantly receiving new potential threat information and taking action
to adjust resources as needed.”

“We cannot comment on any specific threat stream other than to say that
the Secret Service takes threats seriously and responds accordingly,” Guglielmi said.

National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson in a statement to
NBC News said that law enforcement authorities investigating the
shooting by Crooks have “not identified ties between the shooter and any accomplice or co-conspirator, foreign or domestic.”

“As we have said many times, we have been tracking Iranian threats
against former Trump administration officials for years, dating back to
the last administration,” Watson said.

“These threats arise from Iran’s desire to seek revenge for the killing
of Qassem Soleimani. We consider this a national and homeland security
matter of the highest priority,” she said.

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Soleimani, who at the time was Iran’s most powerful general, was killed
in January 2020 by a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad, Iraq, when Trump was
president.

Iran previously was known to be targeting other former top Trump
administration officials who were involved in the operation that led to Soleimani’s death, among them former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former National Security Advisor John Bolton, who continue to have
security details as a result of those plots.

Iran’s mission to the United States in a statement on the alleged plot
said, “These accusations are unsubstantiated and malicious.”

“Trump is a criminal who must be prosecuted and punished in a court of
law for ordering the assassination of General Soleiman,” the mission
said, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran’s state news service.

“Iran has chosen the legal path to bring him to justice,” the mission said.

The Secret Service, which is responsible for protecting former
presidents and major presidential candidates, has faced withering
criticism for failing to stop Crooks from shooting at Trump and rally attendees.

One man was killed, and two others were seriously injured in the
shooting, which occurred two days before Trump was formally nominated as
the Republican Party’s presidential candidate at the GOP convention in Milwaukee.

The agency has said that securing the building was the responsibility of
local police in Butler Township because it fell outside the security “perimeter” of the rally site, which was the Secret Service’s responsibility.

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle told ABC News in an interview
that the shooting “was unacceptable ... and it’s something that
shouldn’t happen again.”

“The buck stops with me,” Cheatle said.

But Cheatle said she would not resign over the incident, which is set to
be investigated by Congress.

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