OPINION:
Following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, it’s becoming obvious that the Secret Service was at best lax about security during Mr. Trump’s campaign appearances (“Is DEI what’s ailing the Secret Service?” web, July 18).
Is it conspiratorial to wonder, though, since the Democrats have already proved they will take any measures necessary to keep Mr. Trump from winning the election, whether the Secret Service was under some sort of order to allow an attack to take place? Isn’t it only a matter of degree, on the Democrats’ sliding scale of morality, between what they’ve already done to ruin Mr. Trump’s life and neglecting to protect him from assassination attempts?
What strikes me as unusually strange is that a Secret Service sniper managed to kill the shooter immediately after he took the shots at Mr. Trump. Surely the sniper would have to have already had the guy in the crosshairs in order to shoot him so fast. And if he did, why didn’t he kill the would-be assassin before the latter shot at Mr. Trump?
I hate to think there could have been a deliberately slow response on the part of the Secret Service, but the Democrats have led me to this kind of suspicion, especially since President Biden publicly called for putting “a bull’s-eye” on Mr. Trump. Was that just a dementia-induced slip? Could such a thing actually happen in the United States?
DONALD BRETCHES
Waynesboro, Virginia
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