Former president says Secret Service responded quickly to shots and evacuated him from golf course as investigations begin into how suspect got so closeThe New York Times has spoken to Beth Celestini, a former Secret Service agent who previously protected President Barack Obama. She said she had concerns about “reports that the suspect allegedly was in the bushes for 11 hours,” adding “The Secret Service has protocols where if enacted, this suspect should have been discovered before the incident.”Another retired security agent, Ronald Layton, said to the paper that the question for the agency was “Was this just luck that you caught this guy, or did you have the appropriate mechanisms in place for these kinds of things on the threat spectrum?”He was very nice today, he called up to make sure I was OK, to make sure, [and ask] do I have any suggestions. We do need more people on my detail, because we have 50,000, 60,000 people showing up to events, and, you know, other people don’t have that, but he couldn’t have been nicer.Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country and they are the ones that are destroying the country – both from the inside and out. These are people that want to destroy our country. It is called the enemy from within. They are the real threat. Continue reading…
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Author : Martin Belam
Publish date : 2024-09-17 11:54:06
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