Susan Crabtree on Butler, PA: “Secret Service ‘Sloped Roof’ Saga Takes New Turn”

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🗓️ 18 July 2025

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3: 5:05pm- Susan Crabtree— RealClearPolitics National Political Correspondent & Author of the book, “Fools Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All”—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss her latest article, “Secret Service ‘Sloped Roof’ Saga Takes New Turn.” You can read the full article here: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/07/15/secret_service_sloped_roof_saga_takes_new_turn_153049.html 5:25pm- A kiss cam moment during Coldplay’s concert in Boston has gone viral—for all the wrong reasons. The clip features a man and woman immediately distancing themselves from one another and hiding their faces the moment they’re placed on the big screen. The band’s frontman, Chris Martin, joked that they must be “having an affair.” Turns out, they were! 5:40pm- During Thursday’s White House briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was pressed by Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich about President Trump’s Truth Social post calling the Epstein files a “hoax.” Heinrich asked, “Can you clarify which part of the Epstein hoax is the hoax part?” Leavitt responded, “The President is referring to the fact that Democrats have now seized on this as if they ever wanted transparency when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein.” But was her answer sufficient—or does the Trump Administration still have more explaining to do?

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr. with Osparity Private Wealth.
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0:15.9	On X at Rich Zoli, Susan Crabtree has been all over the story from the beginning. She is a writer
0:22.2	at Real Clear Politics.com, investigative journalist, also author of the book Fool's Gold. And her
0:28.2	latest piece on the sloped roof controversy and the details that are emerging there is an
0:34.2	absolute must read. So Susan, welcome back to the show, my friend. It's great to have
0:38.3	you. Thanks so much, Rich. Thanks for having me back. It's great to be with you. I'm reading the
0:43.5	story, and it's hard to believe this here. So we know about this AGR building, which is the building
0:49.7	that had this sloped roof. And originally the excuse they gave for why there was not a sniper
0:55.3	on there or a law enforcement official, a secret service officer, was because the roof was
1:01.9	sloped, right? That was the initial excuse that was given. Yeah, that's basically what got the
1:07.6	former director, Kimberly Cheeto, fired. Well, she resigned and she was forced out by Congress, basically.
1:14.5	They did not like that testimony.
1:16.9	So it was absurd.
1:18.8	It was farcical.
1:20.1	And yeah, you had cows on sloped roofs that were the memes coming out of that.
1:24.6	You had Santa patches that say Santa is slope roof certified and he's
1:29.9	carrying a gun. It was, it ran the gamut. But yeah, it was the most, I believe it was one of the
1:36.6	worst, you know, responses, explanations and for a systemic, systemic failure in maybe modern history.
1:47.3	My favorite meme, as they're called, memes of that was Chris Christie in the beach chair
1:52.8	on the sloped roof of the AGR.
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