ex-Secret Service agent Dan Bongino: Trump 'saved his own life' during shooting
Bongino excoriated the Secret Service for an “absolutely catastrophic” failure during Trump’s rally in Butler, Penn. and surmised that the former president’s decision to duck was live-saving.
The former president later claimed that a bullet “pierced the upper part of my right ear” and he felt it “ripping through the skin.”First photos of Thomas Matthew Crooks: 'Loner' who shot former President Trump before Secret Service killed himAuthorities have since identified 20-year-old Pennsylvanian Thomas Matthew Crooks as the suspected gunman and the FBI is currently investigating the shooting as an assassination attempt.
Sources claimed that the suspect was on a roof outside the security perimeter when he opened fire from a shed roof. Ultimately, law enforcement “neutralized” the suspect, according to the Secret Service.“The evacuation did not go right,” he said. “The rule with the Secret Service is cover the protectee and evacuate.”Bongino also disputed the Secret Service’s denial that Trump’s team requested a more robust security presence in the past.
“In fact, we added protective resources & technology & capabilities as part of the increased campaign travel tempo,” he added. “They were more concerned about the color of the Secret Service agents ties around Donald Trump, given the perception,” he said,
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