[ April 14, 2026 ]
US Secret Service Director Blames ‘Sloped Roof’ for Security Failure
It turns out that the roof’s slope was a less than 10 degrees — hardly cause for concern.
Another failed Democrat DEI hire. She has got to go.
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Secret Service director says the decision to leave the roof unguarded was deliberate, because it was unsafe to have snipers on a sloped roof. “That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof,” Cheatle said. The director of the U.S. Secret Service deliberately allowed the former and future president of the United States to be shot in the face because she didn’t want a Secret Service agent to be on a roof with a minimal slope.
Like this slope? 😒 https://t.co/vpOA1liiKF pic.twitter.com/eO2sJ3DLik
— Christine Yeargin (@christineyeargs) July 16, 2024
Secret Service director says the decision to leave the roof unguarded was deliberate, because it was unsafe to have snipers on a sloped roof.
“That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there's a safety factor that would be considered…
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 16, 2024
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By Geoff Earle, Dailymail.Com, 16 Jul 2024:
Secret Service head Kimberly Cheatle has finally given an interview
‘That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point,’ she said
ADVERTISEMENTEmbattled Secret Service head Kimberly Cheatle has revealed the fateful and bizarre reason why her agency failed to put an agent on the roof gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks used to carry out an assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
Cheatle, who is facing calls to resign over the massive security failure, said Secret Service officials planning security for Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania considered the warehouse 147 yards away from where Trump spoke to be a risky position for stationing an agent.
Chilling new details have revealed that a team of local police snipers were inside the building when the 20-year-old Crooks opened fire, shot Trump in the ear and killed a member of the rally crowd.
Crooks managed to evade cops and Secret Service three times, even though he had been deemed ‘suspicious’ and could have been on the roof for up to 30 minutes before he pulled the trigger.
Witnesses also begged law enforcement to act when they saw him clamber onto the roof with his AR-style rifle, but the lapse in security meant he was able to carry out his bid to take the 45th president’s life.
The mistakes that led to Trump being inches away from being killed sparked calls for Cheatle to step down, but she has refused and has now given a baffling explanation as to why there wasn’t a presence on the roof that had a clear line of sight to Trump.
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