{"id":2351178,"date":"2024-10-05T16:38:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T20:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secret-service-makes-telling-move-as-trump-returns-to-site-of-near-assassination-proving-they-lied-to-america\/"},"modified":"2024-10-05T16:42:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T20:42:56","slug":"secret-service-makes-telling-move-as-trump-returns-to-site-of-near-assassination-proving-they-lied-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secret-service-makes-telling-move-as-trump-returns-to-site-of-near-assassination-proving-they-lied-to-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Service Makes Telling Move as Trump Returns to Site of Near Assassination, Proving They Lied to America"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsecret-service-makes-telling-move-as-trump-returns-to-site-of-near-assassination-proving-they-lied-to-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2351178&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President Donald Trump held\u2062 a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, marking his first return\u200c since surviving\u2063 an assassination attempt on July 13. Attendees gathered to support him,\u2064 reflecting on the\u200d tragic outcome of that day, where one supporter, firefighter Corey Comperatore, was killed while \u2063Trump escaped unharmed. Videos from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/convicted-child-sex-offender-who-escaped-st-louis-hospital-is-captured-police\/\" title=\"Police have apprehended a convicted child sex offender who escaped from a St. Louis hospital.\">rally raised concerns<\/a> \u2063about the Secret Service\u2019s\u2062 security measures during the July incident,\u2062 particularly regarding their decision not to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/honduran-child-sex-offender-arrested-in-michigan-6-months-after-deportation\/\" title=\"Honduran Child Sex Offender Arrested in Michigan 6 Months After Deportation\">station agents<\/a> on the building\u2019s sloped roof, from \u200cwhich the shooter fired. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle had previously defended this choice, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-store-makes-customers-shop-with-escort-amid-rampant-shoplifting\/\" title=\"San Francisco store enforces customer escorts due to &#039;rampant shoplifting\">citing safety concerns related<\/a> \u200dto\u200b the sloped roof. However, at the recent rally, records \u200cshowed snipers positioned on a similar sloped roof, contradicting her earlier statements and prompting calls for accountability. Cheatle resigned shortly after the incident, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/experts-testify-on-dangers-of-dei-at-house-education-hearing\/\" title=\"Experts warn of DEI dangers at House Education Hearing\">amidst increasing scrutiny<\/a> and doubts\u200b about\u200d her claims regarding security protocols.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> <script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump returned to the site of his near-assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday to hold a much-anticipated rally for supporters.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the first time Trump has returned to Butler since would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks shot him on July 13. Though Trump escaped with his life, one rally-goer &mdash; firefighter Corey Comperatore &mdash; did not.<\/p>\n<p>Videos from Saturday&rsquo;s rally highlight the Secret Service&rsquo;s July 13 security failures, especially those showing exactly <em>where<\/em> it has chosen to station Secret Service counter snipers this time.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately following the July 13 shooting, questions over the security failure began to pop up.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most pressing of these was over why the Secret Service did not secure the rooftop Crooks opened fire from.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>In a July 15 interview, then-Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle told <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/trump-rally-shooting-unacceptable-secret-service-director-abc-exclusive\/story?id=111962314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News<\/a> that no Secret Service agents were posted up on the roof because it was sloped.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That building in particular has a sloped roof, at its highest point. And so, there&rsquo;s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn&rsquo;t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof,&rdquo; Cheatle said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And so, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Secret Service officials appear to have decided Cheatle was wrong about &ldquo;sloped&rdquo; roofs posing a security concern.<\/p>\n<p>Videos from the rally show snipers stationed on the sloped roof of a metal sheet building much like the one Crooks had shot from.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Snipers are positioned on the &lsquo;sloped roof&rsquo; at Trump&rsquo;s return to Butler, PA after assassination attempt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b5FpBLNsjX\">pic.twitter.com\/b5FpBLNsjX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Breaking911\/status\/1842624339495067758?\">October 5, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is far from the first time Cheatle&rsquo;s &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-massive-lie-about-sloped-roof-comes-out-during-hearing\/\" title=\"Breaking: Massive Lie About &#039;Sloped Roof&#039; Comes Out During Hearing\">sloped roof&#038;rdquo<\/a>; security claim was called into question.<\/p>\n<p>In July, the House Oversight and Accountability Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-massive-lie-sloped-roof-exposed-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grilled Cheatle over the claim<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Do you remember in an ABC interview you did that you didn&rsquo;t have people on the roof of the AGR building because you were worried about safety because of the slope?&rdquo; Texas Republican Rep. Pat Fallon asked.<\/p>\n<p>After Cheatle acknowledged she had, Fallon asked if there was a written Secret Service policy regarding sloped roofs, to which she said there was not.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#128680; BOMBSHELL! The SS Counter-Snipers were on a Roof STEEPER than the Shooter.<\/p>\n<p>This is absolutely damning&hellip; and destroys the excuse of a &ldquo;sloped roof&rdquo; being too dangerous to have agents on the roof.<\/p>\n<p>We are watching a cover-up folks.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/66t0YkCCZ2\">https:\/\/t.co\/66t0YkCCZ2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mXIfiHcEmy\">pic.twitter.com\/mXIfiHcEmy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MJTruthUltra\/status\/1815431599019667892?\">July 22, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-secret-service-director-kimberly-cheatle-day-disastrous-house-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cheatle later resigned<\/a> on July 23, ten days after Trump was shot.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\">  <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> <label>* Name<\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> <\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> <label>* <\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> <\/div>\n<p> <label>* Message<\/label> <br \/> <textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\">  <\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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While Trump survived the attack, firefighter Corey Comperatore did not. Videos from the rally raised concerns about security lapses by the Secret Service during the July incident, particularly regarding their choice of sniper positions. Following the shooting, questions arose about why agents were not stationed on the rooftop from which Crooks fired; then-Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle explained that it was due to safety concerns related to its slope. However, at Saturday&#8217;s event, snipers were seen positioned on a similar sloped roof. Cheatle&#8217;s claims have faced scrutiny before; during a House Oversight Committee hearing in July, she admitted there was no written policy regarding sloped roofs and later resigned ten days after Trump&#8217;s shooting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2351179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Picture-26.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34943,34163,3634],"class_list":["post-2351178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-assassination-attempt","tag-secret-service","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Picture-26.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2351179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}