Approximately an hour before the assassination attempt, a local sniper team and multiple rally attendees spotted Crooks scoping out the area around the building from where he would soon fire at Trump.
About 10 minutes before Trump took the stage, the Secret Service designated Crooks as a "Threat." And eight minutes into Trump's remarks, the shooting began.
Why did the Secret Service allow Trump to take the stage? Why didn't agents neutralize or at least verify the threat allowing Trump's rally to continue? Although many security failures have come to light in the days since the assassination attempt on Trump, these are the questions that loom the largest and have people demanding an explanation.
To be clear, Davis does not claim that Secret Service officials were conspiring with the would-be assassin to kill Trump.
" Davis wrote that Trump's security detail was "Understaffed, under-resourced, and stretched to its limits." Following the assassination attempt, sources within the Secret Service community told RealClearPolitics's Susan Crabtree that "Resources were diverted to Jill Biden's event and away from Trump's because they followed agency protocol applying to Trump as a former president." In a Thursday letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan inquired about two briefings held on July 8 relating to security for events that would take place on July 13 in Pennsylvania.
In particular, Jordan wants to know if the "Security posture" at Trump's rally was "Limited" because of the first lady's event and the NATO summit.
A lawmaker told Fox after attending Wednesday's FBI briefing on the shooting that "Congress was denied access to the Integral Ops Report that details the protection plan for former President Trump's rally." Fox News contributor Paul Mauro, an attorney and retired New York City Police Department inspector, noted that "The Ops Report should detail who was supposed to cover the area of the roof that Crooks fired from. If there was no Ops Plan done, or if it didn't cover that rooftop, whoever signed off on it failed badly." "Now that lawmakers are being blocked from seeing the report, and the Secret Service was quick to point the finger at the local police, it screams they're in cover-your-ass mode," Mauro said.
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