Shortly after Saturday's attempted assassination of Donald Trump, eyewitnesses and videos reveal that the Secret Service were given 'stand down' orders to allow the rooftop shooter to carry out the hit.
Footage of snipers pointing their guns at the assassin but refusing to pull their trigger, deliberately allowing Trump to remain in the direct line of fire, had pundits on X asking "Why didn't they shoot him first?".
This isn't the first time the Secret Service have stood down during an active assassination attempt on a U.S. President.
"We noticed the guy bear-crawling up the roof of the building beside us. We're pointing at the guy crawling up the roof. He had a rifle. The police are down there running around on the ground and we're like, 'Hey, there's a guy on the roof with a rifle.'".
The guy asked why there wasn't Secret Service protection "On all of the roofs" near the speaking stage.
Journalist James O'Keefe wrote that he spoke with a Secret Service insider who confirmed teams are supposed to "Cover ALL vantage points - rooftops most obvious."
Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino claimed the director of U.S. Secret Service has "Repeatedly turned down requests for a larger security footprint around President Trump."
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