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Dan Bongino Makes Bombshell Revelation About Security Failures Surrounding Trump Shooting

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July 16, 2024

Conservative commentator and Secret Service veteran Dan Bongino made a stunning revelation about security failures leading up to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during an appearance on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast “Triggered.”

Bongino — who served in the Secret Service for 12 years — revealed that the rooftop from which would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks fired at the former president was supposed to be covered by law enforcement personnel. This was reported to Bongino by an “unimpeachable source” with knowledge of the situation, he said.

“That post, according to my source, that roof was supposed to be a police post. It was supposed to be someone there. They’re now making up excuses, saying the pitch of the roof… my source says to me, no one knows why the post didn’t show up,” Bongino revealed.

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He further revealed that Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle has been instructed by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to “keep her mouth shut” about the case if she wants to remain in her post.

Bongino has repeatedly called on Cheatle to resign in the aftermath of the assassination attempt, something she has refused to do. Crooks fired from a rooftop with a clear line of sight located roughly 130 yards from the former president’s podium.

The building was reportedly identified as a high-profile security vulnerability by the Secret Service, though law enforcement personnel were not present on the rooftop. Security forces did take notice of Crooks roughly 30 minutes prior to the shooting, who was seen scoping out the building. One law enforcement asset — who was inside the building from the roof of which Crooks eventually fired — managed to snap a photo of the suspect, though he was not confronted.

On Tuesday, Cheatle attempted to offer an explanation for why the critical rooftop was left uncovered. “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,” the Secret Service director said in a statement to ABC News. “And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside.”

“They’re not putting that out there. But if you get those site post logs and those police instructions and it was a post on there and they didn’t show up and no one checked, someone could have got your dad killed,” Bongino said. “Within millimeters.”

Bongino followed up by stating that he will be revealing more details on his radio program.

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The Secret Service veteran has spoken at length about numerous “open security questions” surrounding the assassination attempt.

““You’re telling me the best technology you have was deployed and you missed a shooter 130 yards? Say it was 200 yards. The Secret Service CS team, Pete, the counter-sniper team? And I’m not sure those two guys are Secret Service. We have to remember that we don’t always, when we go to New York sometimes with high-level protectees we’ll use NYPD ESU counter-sniper. So I’m not really sure,” Bongino told Fox News in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.

“Either way, they’d still be briefed in. The question we have to ask is, if that’s the best technology we have, and we had a CS team up there with a shooter that, you know, we’re trained out to a thousand yards in the Secret Service with the counter-sniper team. How did they miss someone at most, you know, one-fifth of the way there? It doesn’t make any sense.”