A.G. Gancarski
Florida’s Governor continues to sharpen his criticisms of security failings that led to the assassination attempt of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
“The central feature of our nation’s entrenched bureaucratic class is never being held accountable for failures,” posted Ron DeSantis to X. “The greatest security failure for the agency this century and nobody will be fired or resign?”
The Governor’s comments responded to reporting that Secret Service head Kimberly Cheatle would not consider stepping down despite evident failures to protect the former President, though she does claim, a la Harry Truman, that “the buck stops here.”
“It was unacceptable,” Cheatle told ABC News on Monday. “And it’s something that shouldn’t happen again.”
President Joe Biden, meanwhile, told NBC’s Lester Holt on Monday that he had talked to Cheatle, but Biden misgendered the Secret Service head as “him.”
On Sunday, DeSantis offered similar thoughts on the incident in Butler, Pennsylvania, which saw the former President wounded along with two attendees of the rally, with another one killed.
“D.C. bureaucratic failures almost never result in any accountability; this time needs to be different. Our country is in the peril it’s in partly because the D.C. ruling class has consistently evaded responsibility for its failures,” DeSantis asserted.
The Governor urged “an investigation regarding the security protocols used in Butler.”
“The answer to the following question must be provided in short order,” DeSantis said. “How did someone armed with a rifle get on top of a roof 150 yards away from the stage?”
5 comments
MH/Duuuval
July 16, 2024 at 12:49 pm
Why Dee calls it Free Florida:
“Americans bought nearly 5.5 million firearms in the first four months of 2024, according to one analysis, and nearly half a million of those were sold in Florida.”
#1 with a bullet!
Jay Smif
July 16, 2024 at 12:54 pm
Yeah, but at the end of the day it was a radicalized MAGA incel kid with his MAGA father’s AR-15 that tried to kill their MAGA cult leader for some reason or another.
The kid was a Nick Fuentes “groyper,” and the cult always tries to kill the cult leader.
My Take
July 16, 2024 at 1:15 pm
for some reason or another.
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It’s the south:
“He needed killing.”
Ocean Joe
July 16, 2024 at 2:43 pm
“The answer to the following question must be provided in short order,” DeSantis said. “How did someone armed with a rifle get on top of a roof 150 yards away from the stage?”
There’s a question about getting on the roof, but absolutely no question how he armed himself with a rifle. If that gun could fire off 8 shots in a couple of seconds, maybe sunsetting the ban on assault rifles by W and a GOP congress in 1994 wasn’t such a great idea.
PeterH
July 16, 2024 at 2:44 pm
Republicans selected the venue…… the Secret Service had nothing to do with the GQP’s choice. Why did the GQP pick a site with nearby rooftops higher than the podium?
Republicans need to try to understand why members of their own Party are assassins shooting up black neighborhood grocery stores and their candidate for public office.