The U.S. Secret Service last Saturday “created the conditions” for 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks to climb onto the roof of a building and take aim at former President Donald Trump at his Butler, Pennsylvania rally “deliberately and with malice aforethought,” argued The Federalist co-founder Sean Davis, who led a series of criticisms against the agency on Tuesday.
Davis (pictured above) wrote in a lengthy Tuesday post to the social media platform X that the “security regime” created by President Joe Biden “deliberately and with malice aforethought created the conditions that led to an assassin shooting Donald Trump in the head.”
Trump confirmed one of the bullets fired by Crooks pierced his ear. Rally attendee Corey Comperatore (pictured here) was killed while using his body to shield his family, and two other attendees were injured. Crooks was killed on the scene by a Secret Service counter sniper.
“They deliberately starved Trump’s security team of the resources it needed,” argued Davis, writing that Trump’s security detail was already “understaffed, under-resourced, and stretched to its limits” when the Biden campaign scheduled a Pennsylvania event featuring First Lady Jill Biden, further stressing the agency.
Davis argued, “Biden’s security regime then ordered the most obvious assassination perch in the entire area to remain outside the main security perimeter,” then ordered local law enforcement and counter snipers to avoid the roof and refused to block the line of sight between the assassin’s perch and the stage where Trump spoke.
“When law enforcement radioed in a suspicious person using a laser range finder at the building and even took photos of him,” Davis noted, “nothing was done to detain the assassin,” who he noted was “so obviously a threat that bystanders begged law enforcement” to act.
When members of the crowd attempted to alert law enforcement to the presence of the would-be assassin, Davis notes media reports suggest they were all-but ignored until it was nearly too late.
He then raised the possibility that federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, may have been aware of the killer prior to the shooting.
“We know this happens, because the FBI did it with Gretchen Whitmer: it recruited and urged disturbed individuals to buy weapons and put together a plan to kidnap her.” Davis added, “In that case, the FBI wanted a story it could use to slime right-wingers.”
Nobody wants to hear this because of the implications, but oh well: Joe Biden’s security regime deliberately and with malice aforethought created the conditions that led to an assassin shooting Donald Trump in the head. It is by the grace of God that he lived and our nation is…
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 16, 2024
He questioned, “who was the shooter talking to in the hours, days, and weeks ahead of the event? Who was he meeting with? Did anyone suggest or nudge or urge him to go to the Trump rally in Butler?“
Davis later called the Secret Service explanation “insane” following the revelation that it did not station anyone on the roof due to its pitch.
Reached for comment, Davis told The Pennsylvania Daily Star his post to X spoke for itself.
“The Biden regime—by its own admission—deliberately required the shooting perch used by the assassin to remain unguarded and unsecured,” David explained. “The regime then proceed to spend days lying about the assassination attempt, up to and including the claim that they couldn’t secure the roof because it was ‘sloped.'”
Davis told The Star, “The more absurd the lies become, the more devastating the actual truth must be. Americans are pretty smart. They all know what happened.”
He advanced criticisms of the Secret Service after high profile calls for resignations in the immediate aftermath of the attempted assassination.
Tech CEO and billionaire Elon Musk immediately following the shooting, after first endorsing Trump, called for “[t]he head of the Secret Service and the leader of this security detail” to resign, calling the attempted assassination “[e]xtreme incompetence” or a “deliberate” failure.
He was joined in his call by former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino, who specifically argued Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle should resign.
Bongino since revealed a source claimed to him that the roof, which Secret Service claims it did not guard because of its angle, was “supposed to be a police post,” and “no one knows why the post didn’t show up.”
NEW: Dan Bongino says an "unimpeachable source" tells him that someone was supposed to be on the roof where Thomas Crooks shot from but "didn't show up."
Bongino also claimed that the Biden admin is telling the USSS director to keep her mouth shut if she wants to keep her… pic.twitter.com/1ZZL1cWaG1
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 17, 2024
While Cheatle claimed her agency will “participate fully” in a third-party investigation of the circumstances which allowed the assassination attempt, and declared the “buck stops with me,” but has also refused to resign.
The Biden administration claims it has “100 percent confidence” in Cheatle’s leadership in the wake of the shooting, though the president has urged Americans to “cool” their political rhetoric.
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Tom Pappert is the lead reporter for The Tennessee Star, and also reports for The Pennsylvania Daily Star and The Arizona Sun Times. Follow Tom on X/Twitter. Email tips to pappert.tom@proton.me.
Photo “Sean Davis” by Sean Davis and “Trump Wounded” by Donald Trump.
