Shortly after Saturday’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump, eyewitnesses and videos reveal that the Secret Service were given ‘stand down’ orders to allow the rooftop shooter to carry out the hit.
Secret service give stand down orders, ignored reports of sniper on rooftop. https://t.co/R1RIiMcynf
— Stew Peters (@realstewpeters) July 14, 2024
Footage of snipers pointing their guns at the assassin but refusing to pull their trigger, deliberately allowing Trump to remain in the direct line of fire, had pundits on X asking “Why didn’t they shoot him first?”
Watch Secret Service snipers engage the shooter
— Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) July 14, 2024
Question is, why didn’t they shoot him first?????
https://t.co/vpukPROYmx
This isn’t the first time the Secret Service have stood down during an active assassination attempt on a U.S. President. On 22 November, 1963, the secret service ignored multiple witnesses who alerted them to a guy with a rifle pointed at JFK’s motorcade:
🚨🇺🇸RFK JR’S SON: “TAKE YOUR SECRET SERVICE AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS”
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) July 14, 2024
Bobby Kennedy III:
“Unsecured rooftop 150 yards away.
Multiple witnesses saying they were screaming at secret service and cops for 3-4 minutes as they watched the guy with the rifle crawl to the spot and… pic.twitter.com/WVMMv7u5qg
Infowars.com reports: An eyewitness shockingly told BBC News he saw the shooter carrying a long rifle and climbing onto the top of a building about four hundred yards away from Trump’s stage.
“We noticed the guy bear-crawling up the roof of the building beside us. We’re pointing at the guy crawling up the roof. He had a rifle. The police are down there running around on the ground and we’re like, ‘Hey, there’s a guy on the roof with a rifle.’”
The witness said he tried to get the attention of nearby police officers and started wondering, “Why is Trump still speaking? Why haven’t they pulled him off stage.”
According to the man, the shooter was on the roof for “three to four minutes” before firing five shots.
The guy asked why there wasn’t Secret Service protection “on all of the roofs” near the speaking stage.
BREAKING: Eyewitness tells BBC that he informed police, Secret Service about a suspicious man on a roof with a rifle.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 13, 2024
He was ignored. pic.twitter.com/Cvfb7znZtZ
Someone shouted, “He’s got a gun!” in another video just before shots rang out.
🚨🇺🇸#BREAKING: NEW footage shows the crowd spotting the shooter BEFORE secret service take action.
— Censored Men (@CensoredMen) July 14, 2024
“HE'S GOT A GUN!” multiple people yell.
Wow… pic.twitter.com/3vgxPZD6fV
A video obtained by TMZ shows the shooter lying on the roof just before opening fire as people shouted, “He’s got a gun on the roof!”
Video shows the deceased shooter’s body lying on the roof mentioned by the eyewitness.
NEW: Video purportedly shows deceased shooter on roof near Trump rally pic.twitter.com/P0TtiQ0eaI
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 13, 2024
X owner Elon Musk agreed with a post that asked, “How the hell was such an obvious line of sight not secured?”
Exactly https://t.co/9dxmQbHFQb
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 14, 2024
A graphic shared by military veteran Matt Bracken shows the angle and distance between Trump and the shooter.
But not tonight. WHY? pic.twitter.com/PH1V1yxjVs
— Matt Bracken (@Matt_Bracken48) July 14, 2024
“How was a sniper with a full rifle kit allowed to bear crawl onto the closest roof to a presidential nominee?” asked Human Events Senior Editor Jack Posobiec.
How was a sniper with a full rifle kit allowed to bear crawl onto the closest roof to a presidential nominee
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) July 14, 2024
Journalist James O’Keefe wrote that he spoke with a Secret Service insider who confirmed teams are supposed to “cover ALL vantage points — rooftops most obvious.”
DEVELOPING…Shooter found dead on rooftop with vantage point to stage.
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) July 13, 2024
Secret Service tasks counter assault teams to cover ALL vantage points — rooftops most obvious.
Counter assault teams are outsourced professionals. Unlikely they make these mistakes, even “B” team tasked to…
Podcast host Patrick Bet-David questioned whether there’s “a potential leak in Secret Service.”
To those saying the election is over and Trump will win by a landslide, you’re being naive.
— Patrick Bet-David (@patrickbetdavid) July 14, 2024
Here are my concerns:
1. He must first stay ALIVE in order to win
2. There’s a potential leak in Secret Service and protection of the president.
Too many blind spots. There needs to…
Musk called on people to be fired over the shooting.
Extreme incompetence or it was deliberate. Either way, the SS leadership must resign. https://t.co/0vYGrj6yuH
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 14, 2024
Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino claimed the director of U.S. Secret Service has “repeatedly turned down requests for a larger security footprint around President Trump.”
I want to repeat, and can absolutely confirm, the USSS Director Kim Cheatle has repeatedly turned down requests for a larger security footprint around President Trump. Despite knowing the threat level is catastrophic.
— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) July 14, 2024
Resign tonight. https://t.co/v3UQyTt1dK
Others criticized the security failure as well:
This is one of the biggest security failures I have ever seen.
— Oliver Alexander (@OAlexanderDK) July 13, 2024
– Shooter on an unsecured rooftop just 400ft away from Trump with a clear line of sight.
– Bystander sees shooter crawling on roof with rifle minutes before and tries to warn law enforcement.
