Daily Archives: July 16, 2024

Secret Service Had Trump Assassin In Their Sights For Minutes Before Attack (7-16-24)

01:00 NYT: Videos show Secret Service snipers were focused toward the gunman before the shooting. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/16/us/trump-shooting-investigation14:40 Secret Service Director Makes UNBELIEVABLE Excuse for Lack of Snipers on the Roofhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/16/republican-platform-trump-convention/16:20 How Leadership Failures Led to an Assassination Attempt on Trump1:03:00 How … Continue reading

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DM: Secret Service director gives bizarre reason why an agent wasn’t on the roof where gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire on Trump as she rejects calls to resign

Daily Mail reports: Embattled Secret Service head Kimberly Cheatle has revealed the fateful reason why her agency failed to position an agent on top of the building that a gunman used to carry out an assassination attempt on Donald Trump. … Continue reading

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The JD Vance Pick

Tracing Woodgrains writes: [T]he GOP is looking to make an appeal to anti-woke Silicon Valley or finance types to fill the void left by the Republican Party’s competency crisis. Right now, there is tremendous asymmetry between the parties in policy … Continue reading

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WP: Evan Wright, unflinching author of ‘Generation Kill,’ dies at 59

The Washington Post reports: Evan Wright, a modern-day gonzo journalist who embedded with an elite U.S. Marine battalion in Iraq for prizewinning articles that were published in Rolling Stone and grew into the book and HBO miniseries “Generation Kill,” died … Continue reading

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