In the aftermath of the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump Saturday at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a lot of questions have been asked about security at the venue. The broad outlines of that criticism can be found in Ward Clark’s Question for the Secret Service: Who Screwed Up?
While I think we had a pretty good idea of what went wrong, the more important question is why it went wrong.
The answer to some of the why questions is obvious. When you look at the terror and confusion of the US Secret Service protective detail agents trying to manage Trump’s evacuation, that is a direct outcome of the Secret Service director Kimberly Cheate’s policy of making the agency’s field agents 30% women.
Watching the ladies at work here. pic.twitter.com/ySuIw78VfR
— Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️♂️💼🥋 (@SharylAttkisson) July 14, 2024
This is Secret Service…
