This was not a staged assassination attempt. It was the real deal. It was a real shooting and a real attempt to kill our legitimate President.
The area was not secured properly, nor was protocol followed in securing the venue. The SS was slow to react to the threat. They took an extremely long time in moving him to safety. Both are in opposition to the extensive and precise training the SS receive to be on a security detail of this nature.
Speculation:
The SS is as compromised as the FBI, CIA, ATF, IRS, and every other federal agency.
The hoped for outcome was not achieved forcing the SS to jump into protection mode and move Trump out of the area. There is no way 3+ shots could have been taken by the assassin before a SS sniper could get off a shot.
I predict Trump will keep his personal security team close around him going forward. Between him and the SS.
To me, this has a lot of red flags indicating it was a possible set up. There is no way they could have predicted only 1 of the shots fired would hit Trump, and it only be a grazing wound.
Counterargument to 1st point of speculation: The Secret Service takes its work very seriously, because their entire reputation hinges on their competence. Meanwhile, the DHS is directly responsible for allocation of SS agents and resources, and has reportedly been unresponsive to the Trump detail's requests for more agents and assets.
I'd say it's more likely that none of those agents knew anything and that they did exactly what they were trained to do. There's simply no reason to inform the agents who don't need to know of a plan to allow the assassination of their own protectee. If they have no active role in such a plan, they don't need to do anything other than their normal job. It makes it more believable anyway when they're scrambling around wondering how such a thing could happen.
All that would need to be done is for some higher ups to botch the security plan. Every agent simply does their job, maybe you involve the sniper team, but ultimately it's the lack of agents on that rooftop that allows the plan to work. And if the shooter knew the plan, it allows him to work around the agents that are there.
Facts:
Speculation:
To me, this has a lot of red flags indicating it was a possible set up. There is no way they could have predicted only 1 of the shots fired would hit Trump, and it only be a grazing wound.
Counterargument to 1st point of speculation: The Secret Service takes its work very seriously, because their entire reputation hinges on their competence. Meanwhile, the DHS is directly responsible for allocation of SS agents and resources, and has reportedly been unresponsive to the Trump detail's requests for more agents and assets.
JFK
Eye witness report suggests 5 shots
I'd say it's more likely that none of those agents knew anything and that they did exactly what they were trained to do. There's simply no reason to inform the agents who don't need to know of a plan to allow the assassination of their own protectee. If they have no active role in such a plan, they don't need to do anything other than their normal job. It makes it more believable anyway when they're scrambling around wondering how such a thing could happen.
All that would need to be done is for some higher ups to botch the security plan. Every agent simply does their job, maybe you involve the sniper team, but ultimately it's the lack of agents on that rooftop that allows the plan to work. And if the shooter knew the plan, it allows him to work around the agents that are there.