Fight, Fight, Fight
Phillip Klein in NRO has a simple question. How on earth was the roof not secured in the first place?
Indeed, there are other questions:
- Why did the counter-sniper team appear to wait until the shooter fired at Trump before taking him out?
- Why didn’t police and Secret Service react more quickly to numerous people who were shouting at them for minutes that a gunman was crawling on a nearby roof?
- Why didn’t they whisk Trump off the stage more quickly, given that there could have been a second assassin?
The ideal place to shoot for any would-be assassin would be from higher ground. Which makes anyone wonder why the Secret Service didn’t secure all the roofs that are within striking distance — let alone within a few hundred feet.
This isn’t just a question of imperfect judgment in the heat of the moment, but something that could have been thought of in advance of the event, when the Secret Service was sweeping and prepping the area.
Dominic Pino, also in NRO, highlights the Secret Service’s history of egregious failures and misconducts. Don’t view the Secret Service, as often is portrayed by Hollywood, Mr. Pino pleads, as a “crack squad of superhumans.”
(The Secret Service) should be viewed for what it is: part of the federal bureaucracy, in need of serious questioning and accountability from taxpayers and their elected representatives.
An Epic Move
The difference between a grazing wound and death? In Donal Trump’s case, an inch of so.
Trump on his feet, with blood from his ear smeared across his cheek, pumping his fist while yelling, “fight, fight, fight: It was an epic move.
Whatever you feel about Donald Trump, whatever your stand, Peggy Noonan writes in The WSJ (despite her past vitriol), you have to grant him, “one of the great gangsta moves of American political history.”
A Prayer to Unite America
That what happened last night will be “the worst thing that happens in the 2024 campaign.”
