A.G. Gancarski
Is the Joe Biden administration saying enough about the most recent assassination threat against former President Donald Trump?
One Florida member of Congress says no, and she wonders why Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been mute on the subject.
“It is a stunning failure that we have not heard from Secretary Mayorkas. This is at the end of the day his responsibility. He has been silent. He has not come out and vocally called for an increase in resources (or said) that they will do everything conceivable to make sure that we keep (Trump) safe,” U.S. Rep. Laurel Lee said on Fox News’ “America Reports.”
Lee is one of three Floridians on the Bipartisan Task Force to Investigate the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump, launched in the House in the wake of a previous attempt on the Republican nominee’s life during a July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Even as Republicans are processing that, a second near-tragedy happened this weekend when Ryan Wesley Routh, the would-be gunman, was arrested Sunday shortly after shots were fired at the golf course where Trump was playing. Routh had hidden in greenery on the course for hours before the Secret Service flushed him out, just ahead of Trump golfing a hole near where the attempted assassin waited for him.
In the wake of July’s assassination attempt, Mayorkas assembled a bipartisan panel that included former DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, a Democrat appointed by Barack Obama, and Republican Fran Townsend, who advised former President George W. Bush on homeland security.
“This independent review will examine what happened and provide actionable recommendations to ensure they carry out their no-fail mission most effectively and to prevent something like this from ever happening again,” Mayorkas claimed at the time.
However, early indications suggest the “no-fail mission” isn’t succeeding.
21 comments
Word Salad
September 17, 2024 at 1:53 pm
Mayorkas can’t even control our borders. He is completely incompetent and has already been impeached.
MH/Duuuval
September 18, 2024 at 11:58 am
Mayorkas needs a second impeachment to match DJT’s record.
rick whitaker
September 17, 2024 at 2:07 pm
MAGA MARK, your guy, trump, has been impeached twice, so he’s twice as bad as mayorkas according to the illogic of your post. what a maga fool you are!
Word Salad
September 17, 2024 at 2:11 pm
Did someone fart?😜
rick whitaker
September 17, 2024 at 2:15 pm
MAGA MARK, so you have no excuse for being a fool on the border issue? just as i thought. i know you well maga mark.
Word Salad
September 17, 2024 at 3:10 pm
The border? Really? Kammy owns that one but you and the Demo Party and the Demo media are giving her a pass on that one. Spin away Ricky.
rick whitaker
September 17, 2024 at 6:48 pm
MAGA MARK, there is no good reason to explain something to a dolt that can’t comprehend what you are saying because they have replaced fact with fiction in their maga minds .has your dog been eaten yet? face it punk, you are a huge woman hater and racist. i know you well.
PeterH
September 17, 2024 at 3:13 pm
Fun Facts:
1. Trump’s first assassin was a registered Republican.
2. Trump’s second assassin voted for Trump in 2016.
Both assassins were seeking notoriety.
3. Only Congress has the authority to change immigration laws….. and Republicans refuse to do so.
4. Only Congress can increase funding for the Secret Service….and Republicans refuse to do so.
Republicans are America’s worst enemy.
Vote all Republicans out of office.
Josh Green
September 18, 2024 at 9:49 am
☝️☝️☝️
MH/Duuuval
September 17, 2024 at 4:35 pm
By now the world knows there was a border deal made by Biden earlier this year that satisfied most of the concerns of Congressional reps, but Trump wanted to play up the border as his #1 issue — which he has done, but only after telling his acolytes to kill the Biden compromise proposal.
Trump definitely is not serious except where his own interests are in play.
Word Salad
September 17, 2024 at 5:16 pm
5000 a day? You okay with that? This country is broke. Can we really afford this? Have you gone to your City Council and advocated for migrants? Stop with the spinning BS.
MH/Duuuval
September 17, 2024 at 9:38 pm
US is not broke. The wealth division is becoming more and more skewed towards the hyper-wealthy, the most adept of the tax dodgers.
Bobblehead Kammy
September 18, 2024 at 6:02 am
The US is not broke? Wow! Just when you think you have heard it all. Keep printing money, it grows on trees in MH’s world.🤣
MH/Duuuval
September 18, 2024 at 12:02 pm
Spoken like an autocrat in training — you just need a few more millions.
BTW: IRS is coming after millionaires who have not bothered to pay or even file taxes recently. That should take some of the pressure off the debt, eh?
And, if DJT loses in Nov. and doesn’t incite a civil war, there won’t be another yuge tax break for which plutocrats yearn.
Dont Say FLA
September 18, 2024 at 9:21 am
Was Congress going to take action regarding the border when there wasn’t a big problem with it? No. That’s why Trump failed to do anything real on the border. He mitigated the issue via some executive orders, leaving Congress to work on the louder squeaks.
Biden Harris knew how to get Congress to act by exerting pressure on them, did exactly that, and then here comes Turnip J Truck to slash the tires and render 3 years of folks crossing the border entirely moot for any productive reason beyond whatever holes they dig, yard they mow, laundry they wash, houses they build, taxes they pay, etc.
A three year pressure campaign to solve the border issue for reals, a bill to be enacted by Congress and signed into federal law, that campaign worked. Congress was passing the bill.
But then Turnip J Truck showed up and trumped it all up, and he did it just so he could have something to keep on complaining about.
If the man wasn’t complaining, would he even have one word left to say?
Michael K
September 17, 2024 at 5:33 pm
Did it ever occur to Trump that when he is on his property, he might close it down rather than rely on taxpayers?
He’s been repeatedly warned that it is difficult to protect him while he golfs and holds outdoor rallies.
Butt and beave
September 17, 2024 at 7:48 pm
The big failures is no one can handle this technology or the new energies of alien technology, we haven’t evolved to new heights
Have a nice day and become ingnorant like me
. ignore
Dont Say FLA
September 18, 2024 at 9:13 am
Could it be that secret service agents, despite being assigned to a person, really work for the US Constitution and they know it?
TallyPatriot
September 18, 2024 at 11:27 am
What is the question? OK, Here is the answer, Some wacko thought he could sit up 500 yards away and wait for Trump. SS found him and rooted him out. Job done.
Dont Say FLA
September 18, 2024 at 4:53 pm
Disgruntled ex-MAGAs will probably be sitting and waiting everywhere the smallest man who ever lived ever goes.
Sooner or later the Secret Service won’t be quick enough to save him one day, and on that day there will be nobody to blame but Turnip J Truck himself for sowing the turnip seeds he planted everywhere for the last decade.
As the saying goes, what goes around comes around. Apparently it’s coming around time within Magalandia.
They’re turning on each other just like I knew they would, but it’s a lot sooner than I figured it’d be. Sad!
Jojo
September 19, 2024 at 7:01 am
Laurel laurel laurel… a “ stunning failure” would have been if the secret service had found him AFTER he fired his assault weapon.
Maybe Trump should take a cue from Obama and play golf at more secure locations, rather than the sieve that is Mar a lago
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