Where Security Went Wrong: Sheriff Responds to Assassination Attempt on Trump

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🗓️ 23 July 2024

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It makes “absolutely no sense” that the roof of the building from which the gunman fired was not secured by the Secret Service, Dodge County, Wisconsin, Sheriff Dale Schmidt told The Daily Signal in an interview discussing the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Following the attempt on Trump’s life during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle sat down for an interview with ABC News and said there were safety concerns with regard to stationing agents on the roof the shooter used because it was “a sloped roof.” But Schmidt points out that the countersnipers that were on a roof behind the president were also on a sloped roof. “When you look at a location from a security standpoint, you're going to be standing where that dignitary is ahead of time and saying, ‘Where are the potential vulnerabilities?’” Schmidt said. “And I can tell you if I was on that roof, I could have made that shot. It is not a difficult shot to make.” Schmidt sat down with The Daily Signal at the Republican National Convention last week in Milwaukee, to discuss the security failures at the Trump campaign rally just days earlier. He also explains why the crisis on America’s southern border has become such a threat to sheriffs across America. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Tuesday, July 23rd. I'm Virginia Allen.
0:11.0	Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheiedle testified before the
0:14.7	House Oversight Committee on Monday and during that hearing she was asked
0:18.6	why agents did not secure the roof that the shooter targeted Trump from and specifically Texas Republican
0:26.6	Congressman Pat Fallon was very critical of Cheetol's comments that she had made to ABC News.
0:33.5	Cheetel told ABC News that agents were not on that roof
0:36.3	that the shooter used because it was a sloped roof.
0:39.4	But Fallon pointed out during the hearing
0:42.4	that the roof that the counter snipers were on behind Trump was also a sloped roof.
0:48.0	That's an observation that was also made by Dodge County Wisconsin Sheriff Dale Schmidt. I had the opportunity recently at the
0:55.4	Republican National Convention to sit down with Sheriff Schmidt and talk about
1:00.1	what the security failures were at that rally in Pennsylvania
1:04.2	that ultimately resulted in an assassination attempt on former President
1:07.8	Donald Trump's life.
1:09.2	Well, according to Schmidt, he said it makes absolutely no sense why that roof was not secured.
1:16.0	Stay tuned for my conversation with Sheriff Schmidt discussing that assassination attempt and also
1:21.0	why sheriffs are so concerned about the ongoing crisis on America's
1:24.7	southern border. Before we get to that conversation at the RNC, I want to take a
1:29.6	minute to tell you about another great podcast out of the daily signal.
1:33.8	It's called problematic women.
1:35.9	Because conservative women are problematic women.
1:39.3	Why?
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