A MILITARY veteran has slammed “unqualified” Secret Service agents for their alleged blunders on Saturday that left former President Donald Trump only “three minutes” from death. ..Read Full Article
Darrell Smith, who spent 22 years with the Air Force, blamed the Secret Service’s inclusion policies for the lapses in security that allowed Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Crooks to fire on him.
Smith, now an aero defense and intelligence analyst who works with the Pentagon, was speaking to The U.S. Sun from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where we are reporting from all week.
“I’ve actually ridden with the Secret Service when I was in uniform and now as a volunteer, supporting some of Trump’s movements around the country,” Smith said, as we spoke to him at a veteran candidate’s event just a couple of blocks from the perimeter of the RNC.
“Diversity, equity and inclusion (the DEI policy) is not what you need.
“You need people who are qualified and loyal to the president. You need to know who you’re working with in any operation.”
Trump was wounded in Saturday’s shooting at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, which also left one attendee dead and two critically injured.
The suspected gunman, 20-year-old Crooks, was killed by Secret Service agents after opening fire on the former president from a vantage point on a nearby roof.
Since Saturday’s shocking events, the Secret Service has been slammed by many and questions have been raised on how Crooks was able to get onto a rooftop just 130 yards away from the former president.
“I think what you saw with the guy who was able to sneak on top of a roof is possibly because you had unqualified people not doing surveillance of the area,” Smith said.
“I mean I’m a retired Air Force guy, I would have had drones in the area, surveilling the air, and you would have easily seen somebody on the rooftop, not just at ground level, and they obviously weren’t doing that.
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“You got about three minutes of a guy that said ‘I saw a guy with a rifle climb on the roof,’ and no one told him about it.
“I’ve been in several military operations and three minutes means life and death, and we’re just very lucky that Trump didn’t lose his life.”
Smith claimed that the shooting had sparked a surge of support for Trump, and said that since the attempted assassination, he had seen “lifelong Democrats” express their “sympathy and general support” for the Republican.
He also praised the general atmosphere inside the RNC.
“It’s a freaking lovefest in there, it’s a great event,” he said with a smile.
“It’s my first convention, but it’s the right time for me to be here.”
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