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A spokesman for the Secret Service stated that local police were responsible for securing the rooftop from which the gunman attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump rested, rather than the Secret Service. The gunman climbed onto the roof on the grounds of AGR International Inc., roughly  130 yards from where Trump spoke at a campaign rally on Saturday, before he started shooting, barely missing killing the former president, who was shot in the ear while killing rally attendee Corey Comperatore and wounding two others. According to Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi, the agency is responsible for security within a designated perimeter around the event it is supposed to protect, The New York Times reported.  He said the perimeter for Saturday’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, included the venue, the audience, and the protectee, and thus, the building from which the gunman launched his attack was the responsibility of local police. Guglielmi noted that four counter-sniper teams, two from local law enforcement and two from his agency, had been deployed at the event. He stated that the gunman had not been “camped out” on the roof and that there wasn’t much time between civilians seeing the gunman and the time he started shooting. Guglielmi’s perspective was countered by some former law enforcement officials, including those with ties to the Secret Service, who questioned why the building from which the gunman launched his attack was not considered within the perimeter for which the Secret Service was responsible. “Did we miss something? And if we did miss something, we need to stand up and take ownership of it,” Robert E. McDonald, who served in the Secret Service for 20 years, asked. “We’re not looking at any skyscrapers here. They should be able to see that. And if somebody is up there, they should be able to send law enforcement personnel up there to check that out.” A resident whose home lies near the building from where the attack was launched told The New York Post that no one from law enforcement contacted her before the event about security, saying, “Nobody. Nobody called me, nobody stopped here. I kinda was thinking that as close as my house is, that I honestly thought this might be part of a command station at some point.” “I was talking to my neighbors yesterday, and none of them had gotten a call. Or anything,” she added. “I guess it’s kind of the same question that everybody has. I guess, as far as like, why that area wasn’t secure.” A senior law enforcement official revealed that local law enforcement saw the gunman near the event magnetometers on Saturday and acting in a suspicious manner, CNN reported, adding, “They put it out over their radio to keep an eye on him – and that information was passed to Secret Service as well, according to the source.” CNN also stated that the gunman was seen jumping “roof to roof” before he stooped on the roof from which he launched the attack. A local police officer reportedly climbed a ladder onto the roof but backed down when the gunman pointed his rifle at him. RELATED: AP Reports That Local Police Officer Retreated After Would-Be Trump Assassin Pointed Gun At Him

Erik Prince — a former U.S. Navy SEAL who went on to found the private military company Blackwater, which now goes by Academi — wrote about what went wrong from a security perspective when a gunman shot former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. Prince’s post comes after 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire on the former president from a nearby rooftop, hitting Trump in the ear and killing at least one rallygoer and critically injuring two other people before he was neutralized by law enforcement. Prince said that Trump was still alive “solely due to a bad wind estimate by an evil would-be assassin,” as a light five mph crosswind was likely enough to push the small caliber bullet off course by a couple of inches. “DJT was not saved by USSS (United States Secret Service) brilliance,” he said. “The fact that USSS allowed a rifle-armed shooter within 150 yards to a preplanned event is either malice or massive incompetence. Clearly there was adequate uncontrolled dead space for a shooter to move into position and take multiple aimed shots. Watching the newsreel one can hear how proximate the shooter is by the very short time lapse between the crack of arriving bullet (supersonic) to the boom of muzzle blast (sonic).” He said that based on the way counter-snipers initially reacted to the shots being fired, he believes that security had a “no ‘first shot’ policy.” Prince said that the only positive action that was taken by Secret Service was when one of their snipers reportedly fired the shot that killed the shooter from nearly 500 yards away. “In my old business of providing Diplomatic Security in two active war zones we were expected to execute the basics or we would be fired,” he said. “Clearly USSS failed at the basics of a secure perimeter and once shots were fired their extraction was clumsy and left DJT highly exposed to follow on attacks. It looked like they had never drilled together because those responses should be effectively autonomic. Will there be accountability? That’s not the Washington way.” Prince said there needed to be a serious shift in the strategies for managing law enforcement departments and agencies. “Unserious and unworthy people in positions of authority got us to this near disaster,” he said. “Merit and execution must be the only deciding factors in hiring and leadership, not the social engineering priority of the day. Sadly nothing in Washington reflects that any longer.” “DJT is right to question the competence of those protecting him because yesterday they failed in almost every way,” he concluded. “Nature abhors a vacuum and there are always other options. Most importantly, as Americans let’s come together and run a proper valid election so we can get back to what matters a merit based society that judges on character and skill. Nothing else.” Hopefully after the tragedy yesterday in Butler PA we can all recognize that unaccountable bloated bureaucracies continue to fail us as Americans. Donald J Trump is alive today solely due to a bad wind estimate by an evil would be assasin. As the graphics show the full value… pic.twitter.com/VU6JYDxiVM — ErikDPrince (@realErikDPrince) July 14, 2024