The following is from the New York Post:
Local police encountered attempted-assassin Thomas Crooks just moments before he tried to kill former president Donald Trump — but failed to stop the gunman despite the clear threat, according to a report.
After rallygoers spotted Crooks on the roof of a manufacturing plant just 130 yards from the stage where Trump was speaking just after 6 p.m. Tuesday, police were notified and one officer climbed a ladder to investigate, law enforcement officials said on the condition of anonymity.
There the officer encountered Crooks, who pointed his AR-style rifle at them.
The officer then backed down the ladder, and Crooks immediately took aim and loosed eight shots at the former president – grazing him in the ear, killing one bystander in the rally crowd, and gravely wounding two others.
If this is accurately reported, a local policeman had the ability to forestall the attack of President Trump – and did nothing. Did he communicate with anyone? With the Secret Service, perhaps? Or did he keep the encounter to himself?
I’m having trouble believing this. Did I wake up in the “bearded Spock” universe?
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There have not only been the multiple reports of Democrats in Congress pushing legislation that would completely remove any Secret Service protection, but now there are people saying that the Trump campaign has been asking for additional staff and resources, only to be denied or simply ignored.
Democrats in Congress and the media have been openly calling for people to commit violence against Republicans since Trump was first elected.
Steve Scalise and the GOP softball players
Supreme Court Justices who DARED to recognize the Tenth Amendment
“You see them out in town, you get in their face”
“He’ll be a dictator worse than Hitler”
“When was the last time an actor assassinated a President?” — Johnny Depp
and on and on… No one has even lost a job over any of these.
Meanwhile grandmothers are sitting in prison for blocking the entrance to a baby-murder factory.