Secret Service resources and manpower were diverted from Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania to a Jill Biden event in nearby Pittsburgh, according to Susan Crabtree of RealClearPolitics.
Crabtree claims to have spoken to individuals, probably within the Secret Service, who said that Trump was deprived of his regular service detail and had fewer counter-snipers than he would normally have, because of the Biden event.
Crabtree made the claims on Twitter.
“This is the problem that my Secret Sources have cited: Secret Services resources were diverted to Jill Biden’s event and away from Trump’s because they followed agency protocol applying to Trump as a former president, according to two sources within the Secret Service community,” she wrote.
“There were also many supplemental agents from different field officers (not Trump’s regular detail) providing security at the rally because Trump’s regular detail has been overworked (some working 7 days straight), and only two counter-snipers.”
Crabtree went on to note that Trump is “not just a former president”: He is, in fact, the first former president to have run for the office again, and “he has been the focus of several prosecutions and controversies.”
“Understatement intentional,” she added.
She ended her post by asking: “Who made the decision to divert the resources to Jill Biden’s event?”
The First Lady spoke at an event in Pittsburgh that began at the same time, 5 pm, as Trump’s rally. According to CBS, she was due to announced that she would be speaking at an Italian Sons and Daughters dinner.
Crabtree’s claims have yet to be corroborated, but major questions have been raised about the adequacy of Trump’s protection detail on the day of the attempted assassination.
It has now been revealed that a local law enforcement officer climbed on the roof and confronted Thomas Matthew Crooks, before backing off, allowing the gunman to open fire on the former president.
Eyewitnesses have also described repeatedly attempting to warn Secret Service and police officers about the presence of a gunman on the roof in the minutes leading up to the attack.
An FBI spokesman told reporters that “there’s going to be a long investigation” into how Trump was shot.
“We’re still working through the security apparatus that the Secret Service had in place, what potentially happened” the spokesman said at a press conference.
“There’s going to be a long investigation into exactly what took place and how the individual was able to get access to the location, what type of weapon he had—all that is really days, weeks and months of investigation.”
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