It makes “absolutely no sense” that the roof of the building from which the gunman fired was not secured by the Secret Service, Dodge County, Wisconsin, Sheriff Dale Schmidt told The Daily Signal in an interview discussing the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
Following the attempt on Trump’s life during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle sat down for an interview with ABC News and said there were safety concerns with regard to stationing agents on the roof the shooter used because it was “a sloped roof.”
But Schmidt points out that the countersnipers that were on a roof behind the president were also on a sloped roof.
“When you look at a location from a security standpoint, you’re going to be standing where that dignitary is ahead of time and saying, ‘Where are the…
