Secret Service boss blames ‘sloped roof’
for not putting sniper team on building
used by would-be Trump assassin: ‘There’s
a safety factor’
New York Post,
by
Chris Nesi
Original Article
Posted By: Ida Lou Pino,
7/16/2024 2:57:14 PM
Embattled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle says she has no plans to resign, even after the stunning revelation that the agency decided not to guard the roof from which Thomas Crooks opened fire on former President Donald Trump because it was too slanted. “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,” she told ABC News in a startling admission.“And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside,” she told the outlet.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
mifla 7/16/2024 3:02:11 PM (No. 1758437)
Thank you, Kimberly. You just proved to the entire country that you are an incompetent AA hire.
Start updating your resume. You will be out of a job in six months.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 7/16/2024 3:02:58 PM (No. 1758438)
The sniper team that ultimately took out the assassin were on a barn...with a sloped roof. Fire this woman immediately.
When Lester Holt asked Biden if he had spoken to the head of the SS he answered that he had talked to HIM already. Does he even know who that she is a woman? I read that Jill actually "made the appointment."
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jinx 7/16/2024 3:03:36 PM (No. 1758440)
Fire her!!!!!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
NYbob 7/16/2024 3:05:55 PM (No. 1758443)
Her obvious and self-proclaimed stupidity really should have her charged for manslaughter, along with EVERY commander who was on site.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 7/16/2024 3:06:37 PM (No. 1758444)
BULL manure!! There were two countersnipers on the MUCH more steeply sloped roof just behind Trump.
This is a LIE, a fraudulent, obvious lie as an excuse. It was sloped, yes, but VERY flat slope, to the extent that the shooter had to lie totally flat to hide behind the relatively low peak from the countersnipers.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MarkTwain 7/16/2024 3:08:31 PM (No. 1758446)
So the safety of the SS agents comes BEFORE the safety ot the person they are paid to protect? OK, what's your job again? Because I don't think it's what you think it is.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Kate318 7/16/2024 3:09:47 PM (No. 1758448)
A definitive DEI, nanny state answer.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
pinger 7/16/2024 3:11:03 PM (No. 1758450)
So….a sloped roof is more dangerous than the job the several agents who shielded President Trump’s body in case more bullets were coming? How dumb does she think we are?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
formerNYer 7/16/2024 3:12:54 PM (No. 1758451)
Incompetent just like bidet and his whole administration.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
rochow 7/16/2024 3:14:16 PM (No. 1758455)
This dumber than dumb strumpet needs to be out of office. Yesterday!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bpl40 7/16/2024 3:14:21 PM (No. 1758456)
Can you imagine Rangers at Pointe Du Hoc refusing to climb because the cliff is "too steep"? Good grief!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/16/2024 3:19:50 PM (No. 1758466)
Yeah, that's it. They've never seen that before.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 7/16/2024 3:22:27 PM (No. 1758470)
Both the trained shooter and the counter snipers were on sloped roofs. Throughout history the sloped roof is a common battlefield.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
TXknitter 7/16/2024 3:23:42 PM (No. 1758472)
Former SS agents said on Megyn’s show, I believe, this woke junk started way back in even Dubya’s staffing. Hiring more women just to make it clear you were hiring women. This is yet another group that needs massive reform, replacements of people even after getting rid of this gal as Director.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Birddog 7/16/2024 3:29:50 PM (No. 1758478)
soooo...you had full teams INSIDE the building, that didn't hear anyone stomping around on the metal roof?, couldn't place them out in the open to WATCH the building perimeter and roof to insure no one climbed it?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
volksford 7/16/2024 3:30:02 PM (No. 1758479)
That " menacing roof " looks like a 2/12 pitch, I am 78 yrs old and could master that !
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
marbles 7/16/2024 3:32:05 PM (No. 1758483)
Right up there with " the dog ate my homework " and Barbie saying " math is hard ".
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
planetgeo 7/16/2024 3:37:24 PM (No. 1758487)
Not only that, but it didn't have an OSHA-approved ramp to enable any handicapped SS snipers to roll their wheelchairs into position, nor a dispenser with wymyn's sanitary products for any agents with front holes.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Peregrine 7/16/2024 3:41:31 PM (No. 1758492)
Obviously the sloped roof didn't deter the shooter.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
skacmar 7/16/2024 3:42:17 PM (No. 1758494)
The sloped roof did not seem to hinder the shooter from almost killing Donald Trump, murdering an innocent person, and horribly injuring two other people. Why would it have hindered some highly trained Secret Service snipers or other agents? The blunders and incompetence on display in Pennsylvania are amazing!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
downnout 7/16/2024 3:46:05 PM (No. 1758497)
Gawd, she’s not only incompetent she’s dumb!!
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What a fool. You don’t have to physically occupy a position to secure it.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
qr4j 7/16/2024 3:52:22 PM (No. 1758505)
Why not use a boom lift or scissor lift? No one has to be on the roof and still has a way to observe. This is the most technological country in the world and we can’t use equipment that has existed for decades to protect a former president and current candidate for president? Five me a break!!!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
hershey 7/16/2024 3:53:59 PM (No. 1758506)
Just like a demrat...not taking the blame for anything...always blame the other person/place/thing...you might as well resign because you certainly will be taking a walk when Trump gets elected...
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
blueline 7/16/2024 3:54:18 PM (No. 1758507)
Looking up at the world, "Director" Cheadle asks for another shovel.
Ma'am, save yourself the embarrassment, and save us the agony; resign and go away quietly.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 7/16/2024 3:58:21 PM (No. 1758514)
3 agents inside…and the building as noybdecured
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
rosefenn 7/16/2024 3:59:31 PM (No. 1758515)
I volunteer to "secure" the next sloping roof myself -- with a Taser, a bottle of Pepsi and a pack of Marlboros. I figure, I could at least shake the Pepsi, and then spray it in anyone's face who tried to get up there. Step two -- extinguish my Marlboro in their eye. Step 3: Tazer. Step 4 -- kick them off the roof.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
chillijilli 7/16/2024 4:00:29 PM (No. 1758517)
What I want to know is how Crooks knew IN ADVANCE that that particular rooftop (sloped or not) would provide a direct line of sight for his attempt? What made him choose that rooftop?
And I'd also like to know how the kid accessed the roof? Did he jump or fly? Or use a ladder? If CNN is correct that he purchased a 5' ladder in the morning, where is it now?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Lazyman 7/16/2024 4:06:15 PM (No. 1758525)
Hiring 5 foot 200 lb people seems to be a problem unless you start thinking like this.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 7/16/2024 4:09:24 PM (No. 1758531)
If this is their standard, make them wear tutus.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
stevendm 7/16/2024 4:17:04 PM (No. 1758546)
FTA: "secure the building, from inside"
That sounds a lot like leading from behind.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 7/16/2024 4:18:16 PM (No. 1758547)
She basically said they aren't trained to operate in such "hostile" conditions, right?
How stupid do Democrats think people are?
Maybe they're used to fooling so many of their Democrat voters with flimsy rhetoric and presume everyone would too?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
mythman 7/16/2024 4:26:11 PM (No. 1758558)
As Napoleon said, "Never Interrupt your opponent when he is making a false move" (This is the true version of the famous quote). DJT did not interrupt Biden in the debate and thus allowed Joe to hang himself. So too with Cheatle. Her childish excuse and its logic are patently absurd. It will be made worse by Dem talking heads trying to 'splain what she "meant" to say.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
john56 7/16/2024 4:31:19 PM (No. 1758563)
Dumb question. Before I, as the lead agent protecting Pres Trump, Pres Biden, or any protected person, wouldn't I ask if every possible protection point has been secured BEFORE I allow the person under my protection to walk on stage?
In surgery, there's something called a "time out" where everything is stopped and the patient and procedure are verified. Maybe USSS needs to adopt that idea.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 7/16/2024 4:42:45 PM (No. 1758569)
probably afraid her chubby girl guardz would've rolled off
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/16/2024 4:46:55 PM (No. 1758571)
Too steep, perhaps for HER, being that she was assigned to the Second Lady's detail when she worked for the USSS. How often do they ever even need to go to the field? Nearly zero?
This DEI hire female is a threat to the lives of the President and Vice President, as well as GOP Nominees. Fire her, the "DC way;" with a huge bonus out the door, along with a job at some University, or at a Think Tank tied monitoring worldwide trends.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 7/16/2024 4:48:03 PM (No. 1758572)
You gotta be $hitting me! So someone else gets ip there and almost kills Trump. As a former emergency services team member, I laid up on sloped, flat, metal, asphalt roofs, providing overwatch for our cips on the ground, so what's the problem?
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/16/2024 4:53:43 PM (No. 1758580)
FYI - the snipers behind Trump that took out the shooter were on a sloped roof -- and more importantly, they were on the roof, and not inside the building, where they could see nothing.
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Cheatle and Mayorkas need to fired.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
synchronicity 7/16/2024 4:58:01 PM (No. 1758585)
Based on a good photo of that roof I measured its slope - came up with ~5% (flat being 0%). A sniper on a ten foot platform behind Trump would have had a clear view of that roof and the sniper long before he fired. Heck, you couldn't have fallen off that roof by accident even if you were wearing roller skates! Is it possible that just incompetency can account for this level of what appears to be willful ignorance? After all, those charged with Trump's protection are supposedly "experts" at this type of thing.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
thefield 7/16/2024 4:58:35 PM (No. 1758586)
Dear boss, shut up. Go home. Stay there.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Beardo 7/16/2024 5:31:08 PM (No. 1758615)
Most everyone has seen the post-shooting photo of 3 law enforcement officers effortlessly standing on that same roof looking down at the body of the deceased shooter.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
paral04 7/16/2024 5:33:38 PM (No. 1758616)
If that roof was so treacherous how did the assassin manage to get up and stay there?
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
immelman 7/16/2024 5:34:40 PM (No. 1758617)
The only explanation that makes sense is that the Secret Service lapses were intentional.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
DVC 7/16/2024 5:52:59 PM (No. 1758629)
Re #23. I have said repeatedly that if they rented a scissors lift and put one man up on it, he could see all the roofs in the complex. That's all that was needed.
IDIOTS.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
mobyclik 7/16/2024 6:39:31 PM (No. 1758652)
Just another member of the Biden Freak Show.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
cartcart 7/16/2024 6:54:14 PM (No. 1758657)
I guess we need to get an OSHA inspection for every assignment. These agents will gladly take a bullet in bravery, but stop at a sloped roof. Unbelievable!
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
FLCracker 7/16/2024 7:04:40 PM (No. 1758660)
FTA" "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,..." Yes, it WAS unsafe. A sniper could take you out on the roof .... if they were looking.
#28, The idiot kid probably did the same thing I did while trying to understand the layout of the rally -- he used Google Maps' Satellite setting. He seems to have been a smart boy; I bet he took geometry. Then he visited the site. There's at least four building in that complex, mostly warehouse-ish, with not many windows and with a large parking lot. Nerdy kid in glasses, just walking around, looking, figuring it out.
From the maps I've seen online, what I don't understand is why the security bubble around the site had a big pie-slice out of it, putting those buildings outside the security perimeter, with the point of the pie-slice pretty much aimed at the speaker's platform. Was that the real perimeter or some news media interpretation?
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
franq 7/16/2024 7:19:47 PM (No. 1758664)
Face it. They take us for nincompoops.
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"sloped roof," blames Little Kim. I am more concerned about the "sloped roof" of her head.
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The AGR building roof looked much more substantial than the roof of the barn the counter sniper team was on.
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
scottj 7/16/2024 7:53:57 PM (No. 1758690)
DEI secret service director needs to be fired. She is a radical liberal and she would want Trump dead.
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
TCloud 7/16/2024 7:54:39 PM (No. 1758691)
Vibram soled foot ware?
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 7/16/2024 8:33:55 PM (No. 1758724)
As an architect who has actually walked on higher pitched roofs than that, I call EXTREME BS!! Unless the counter-snipers were wearing Melania Trump’s stilettos, that roof pitch was no more dangerous than your average sidewalk!!
What a great steaming pantload of an excuse THAT was!!!
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
Birddog 7/16/2024 9:03:21 PM (No. 1758751)
There are TWO cellphone towers right on the site, and an even taller water-tower just 300yds off the site. While setting a sniper team atop one is perfectly logical, even just an unarmed observer with a radio would have done the trick. Taking teams OFF from high position, also taking them off patrolling the perimeter, shutting them away inside, just as soon as the Protectee actually arrives and goes on Stage??
They were not supposed to be "Protecting the Building"...they were supposed to be Protecting Trump and the people.
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Sloped roofs are frighteningly scary. Did you know that if you pour water onto a sloped roof - - the water will flow downhill? And if you pour water onto the right side - - the water will flow down the right side. And if you pour water onto the left side - - it will flow down the left side. I doubt if even the bravest Secret Service Agent - - would volunteer for a hyper-dangerous assignment like that.