Dan Bongino Sounds The Alarm On ‘Open Security Questions’ Surrounding Trump Assassination Attempt

Popular conservative commentator and Secret Service veteran Dan Bongino stated that there are numerous “open security questions” surrounding the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in a thorough breakdown.

Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi rejected reports that Trump’s camp had requested additional security protection in recent weeks. “Theres an untrue assertion that a member of the former President’s team requested additional security resources & that those were rebuffed. This is absolutely false,” he wrote in an X post. “In fact, we added protective resources & technology & capabilities as part of the increased campaign travel tempo.”

Bongino was far from satisfied with the explanation from the Secret Service when reacting to the assassination attempt in an interview with Fox News.

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“Open security questions right now, and this is why again I think the Secret Service, the PR, Anthony Guglielmi, has to be very careful about what they put out. You know, he says in his X post, and you can read it yourself, you don’t need to hear it from me, that they deployed these extra resources and technology. Okay, well which ones?” Bongino told Fox News host Pete Hegseth.

“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,” he continued.

“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.”

Investigators have confirmed that Thomas Matthew Crooks fired between 8-10 shots at former President Donald Trump just minutes into his speech on Saturday evening. The gunman was firing from a rooftop located roughly 130 yards away from where Trump was speaking.

Trump was struck by a bullet that grazed his ear, while retired firefighter Corey Comperatore was hit in the head and killed while shielding his family from the incoming gunfire. Two snipers from an at this time unidentified law enforcement agency immediately returned fire and neutralized the gunman.

The Secret Service has confirmed that Crooks was firing from a building outside the security perimeter.

“And even worse, it’s broad daylight on a white roof. So again, open questions here. Was there forward-looking infrared deployed? Was there aerial support, drones, helicopters?” Bongino said.

Bongino — who joined the Secret Service as a special agent in 1999 and served until 2011 — did commend the heroism displayed by agents who immediately dove on the former president when shots rang out. He ultimately concluded that the evacuation “did not go well,” however.

“I mean, the rule with the Secret Service is cover the protectee and evacuate. The other rule is maximum to the protectee, minimum to the problem. Why minimum to the problem? Because you don’t know that’s the only problem. It could be a distraction,” the Secret Service veteran explained. “There could be another person in the crowd. So if you don’t jump on the protectee, you could be looking at multiple shooters. So at least that part, the guys there, you know, stepped up there, but the failure here is absolutely catastrophic.”

He went on to reference a disturbing report from U.S. Rep. Mike Walz (R-FL), who claimed that Trump had asked for increased security but was denied by the Department of Homeland Security. DHS has rebuffed the claims in a statement of their own.

Regardless, Bongino concluded that Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle failed both former President Trump, as well as President Biden.

“Where’s the DHS secretary? I mean, this is, you’re blaming it on manpower. So just to be clear We’re a four-trillion-dollar United States government and we can’t fork over enough money to keep our people alive?” Bongino asked. “And then you’re sending out tweets like, ‘oh, this is the best technology we have.’ Really? To let a sniper 150 yards away from the potential next president shoot a piece of his ear off? That’s your victory lap?”

“Give me a break, man.”

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