Dan Bongino and Tucker Carlson Drops YUGE Bombshell
Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino, who protected Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during his 12-year career, revealed insider information this week about a significant security lapse during an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
In an interview on Donald Trump Jr.’s “Triggered” podcast, with former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson, Bongino disclosed that the rooftop from which the would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, fired at Trump was supposed to be secured by law enforcement personnel.
Bongino claimed an “unimpeachable source” with firsthand knowledge informed him of this detail.
“That post, according to my source, that roof was supposed to be a police post. It was supposed to be someone there. They’re now making up excuses, saying the pitch of the roof… my source says to me, no one knows why the post didn’t show up,” Bongino said.
He further mentioned that Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle must “keep her mouth shut” about the situation to retain her job, as directed by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Crooks fired from a rooftop with a clear line of sight, approximately 130 yards from Trump’s podium. Experts like Bongino have stated that the rooftop should never have been left unattended. There are also concerns about why law enforcement did not react more quickly after rallygoers noticed Crooks with a rifle well before he opened fire on Trump, who sustained a minor bullet wound to his right ear.
Bongino described the attack at a Saturday rally in Butler, Pa., as an “apocalyptic security failure.” Responding to a Secret Service statement claiming officials “added protective resources & technology & capabilities as part of the increased campaign travel tempo,” Bongino criticized his former employer for not taking responsibility for the incident. He noted that prior discoveries by bystanders, local police, and Secret Service agents should have led to intervention against the shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Crooks.
“This is the best technology we have’? Really? To let a sniper 150 yards away from the potential next president shoot a piece of his ear off?” Bongino told Fox News. “Kimberly Cheatle has failed Donald Trump, and honestly failed Joe Biden too.”
He also criticized the agency’s counter-sniper teams for not engaging Crooks before he fired several shots.
“We’re trained out to 1,000 yards in the Secret Service with the counter-sniper team. How did they miss someone at most one-fifth of the way there? It doesn’t make any sense. And even worse, it’s broad daylight on a white roof,” Bongino added.
The Secret Service has strongly denied that Trump’s security detail requested reinforcements and were denied. However, Bongino insists he can prove otherwise. “I can tell you actual quotes,” he said on Sunday.
“I can tell you, and absolutely confirm, from the horse’s mouth, from multiple people … there have been repeated requests to increase the security footprint, around not just the residences of Donald Trump, but the body itself,” the former Secret Service agent said. “And they have been rebuffed.”
Bongino summarized the incident as his interview concluded: “Never forget, an uneventful failure is never a success, and the fact that Donald Trump didn’t die yesterday is no reason for anybody to take some kind of victory lap,” he said.