Let’s discuss the latest excuse by Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle regarding the attempted assassination. As a side note, I just learned she graduated from the same high school as I did.
WANDTV reports Secret Service director under scrutiny after shooting at Trump rally is Schlarman High and EIU grad.
The Secret Service Director who is under scrutiny following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump has ties to Central Illinois.
Kim Cheatle is a 1988 graduate of Schlarman High School, the News Gazette reports.
Cheatle said she is confident in the Secret Service’s plan to provide security for the Republican National Convention, which started Monday in Milwaukee.
A shooter took aim at former President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pa. Saturday, hitting Trump in the ear. A civilian was killed, and others were injured.
“The incident in Pennsylvania has understandably led to questions about potential updates or changes to the security for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee,” Cheatle said in Monday’s statement. “… I am confident in the security plan our Secret Service RNC coordinator and our partners have put in place, which we have reviewed and strengthened in the wake of Saturday’s shooting.
Cheatle was named Secret Service Director by President Joe Biden in 2022. She was the senior director at PepsiCo, responsible for managing facilities, personnel and business functions, when she got the call from Biden’s office.
She majored in sociology and graduated from Eastern Illinois University in 1992. By that time, she had already applied for a job as a Secret Service agent.
Cheatle was honored by EIU in 2023 with a Distinguished Alumni award and participated in a recruiting event in Charleston.
Obviously Not and Truly Delusional
“I was hired by the service and trained, and I think that’s one of the things the agency does very well.”
Someone On the Ball Originally
The News Gazette reports Cheatle was previously turned down for a role with the Secret Service when she applied in college but was accepted into a position at the Detroit field office two years later.
Calm or Comatose
“If you talk to any law-enforcement agency, they will tell you that when crises occur, they fall back on their training,” she told the paper. “During an event like that, that’s what I’ve always done. That sort of calmness sets in and you fall back on your training, and you think about it later. For us, that’s very important.”
It’s OK to fall back on training, but only provided you learned something in training.
A Word About Training
“That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof. And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside.”
The Secret Service Failed its Only Mission. Biden Should Fire the Director
I repeat what I said previously, The Secret Service Failed its Only Mission. Biden Should Fire the Director
As more videos and interviews turn up, it’s clear the SS failed its only mission. Will anyone be held responsible? At any level?
Addendum
Some classmates objected to the original title of this post. Title modified.
Addendum II
More brilliant planning
All roofs have slopes, a roof is designed to allow water to run off of it.
THe roof in question had a 10 degree slope, with 90 degrees being a right angle or a wall(straight up and down) a 10 degree pitch is 1/9 th of that angle, and is a rather slight pitch, like walking up a very mild hill or slightly sloping sidewalk.
If such a tremendous burden as a 10 degree slope can stop the secret service, what to they do when they meet a locked door, or a fierce looking kitty cat?
Really this is the best leadership our nation can offer us? She is the creme de la creme of tactical defense? and she can’t deal with a 10 degree slope.
Clown world and globohomo are merging in real time. This women should not be fired, she should be prosecuted for dereliction of duty and gross malfeasance.
something is very rotten in the District of Columbia and the odor is engulfing our nation…
Er, perhaps some overweight gov. employees actually would have had trouble with that long ladder and nasty hot sweaty roof.
From Peakprosperty:
One company was responsible for shorting DJT. Austin Private Wealth LLC. 12,000,000 stock short.
Short placed on 7/12, day before the shooting and position closed on 7/16.
DJT Short Positions, Funds Shorting Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. (fintel.io)
The only quarterly filing to the SEC ever amended by the company is in relation to this short:
https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=1800328&owner=exclude
The company has close ties to Dick Cheney, who also has close ties to the Director of the SS, as his daughter Mary Cheney is married to the CEO of Austin Wealth Management. The current director of the Secret Service was on Cheney’s personal security detail as a Secret Service Agent when he was Vice President. She was then on Biden’s detail when he was Vice President.
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She should have all agents watch the movies “In The Line of Fire” and “Air Force One.” They’ll see how Secret Service agents are supposed to act and react when the President is threatened, since obviously their training is lacking.
Interesting to see that the Secret Service has turned into the Diversity Equity and Inclusion Patrol!
please edit “turned into” to “devolved into” perhaps Devo was right and devolution is the path of the future. The D in DEI, might actuall be Devolution.
I have stopped flying on public aircraft, since DEI was embraced by the airlines, the Boeing thing was just typical (bad) business management, raise the stock, bonuses all around, kill the workers and the business. Brilliant business strategy, these are the same great thinkers we have in Washington D.C.(D.C.> Devolution Central….
They have a $3.1 BILLION dollar budget. Even if she wasn’t there personally, she should be fired because it’s a reflection of her leadership. The security lapse was so bad, it has lead to speculation that this was a deep state attempt on Trump.
The assassin had no serious issue with a sloped roof, nor did the officers standing over him, after he was killed.
From re-arranging Pepsi cans to arranging Secret Service Agents — Only in America!
My house has a steel roof with 2x the pitch that roof has, is incredibly slippery but I have crawled up it on many occasions with no problem or difficulty risking a 30ft drop if I fell off. I would classify that roof as practically flat compared to most pitched roofs. The roof the snipers were on appears to have even more of a pitch. I find the excuse beyond absurd, at a minimum they should have guarded the perimeter of the building. Also, not only did dozens of civilians see him crawling up with a gun, so did some police. This happened minutes before the shooting, they had more than enough time to call and get Trump off the stage, why did that not happen? Also they said the sniper could see the shooter but wasn’t allowed to engage because they couldn’t be sure the shooter on the roof had a gun. This is ridiculous, at less than 200 yards with the high quality high powered scope the sniper would have, it would be impossible not to see the gun and again, even if you don’t engage you immediately put the call up to get Trump off the stage.
This is just either unbelievable incompetence in numerous instances or worse. Considering all of the shocking hate directed by many towards Trump, the constant talk by the MSM talking heads and many Democrat officials including Biden that Trump is the greatest threat to Democracy the Nation has ever seen, it would not surprise me at all if this was less about incompetence and more about collusion, after all in their minds they have been brainwashed into believing they would be doing a good thing, they would be stopping a “monster” if Trump were eliminated. Let’s hope it’s just a case of gross incompetence.
Trump is the greatest threat ever… to the crooked establishment.
Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle Blames “Sloped Roof” for Security Failure.
I blame sheer and total incompetence, and quite possibly, with a motive involved to do so, but I digress…
These people in charge (DEI or Not) are absolute morons and so delusional in their approaches to any issues of Safety for American Citizens, obviously which now includes the Leading Presidential Candidate, so go figure for yourself, what that may imply… Not like it’s a stretch by anyone to think this way, based upon Open Borders, with drugs, crime, etc. streaming across and rules in place to allow it to continue unabated, and with no consequences to the perpetrators…
“……we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof. And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside.”
How to get on a roof from outside….hmmm…..If only there was something like a ladder to use…..
and rubber soled shoes to provide adhesion to the roof surface, nah we are talking extreme hi tech shit here. no way the government has access to these kinds of technology.
2:30 mark https://153news.net/watch_video.php?v=2U7X8WSS71HX
Trump ducks when the SS sniper shoots… no shots preceded that…
Trump was not shot… he was not even shot at.
How do you even get out of bed in the morning…?
Trump was shot. He reflexively reacted to the wound he received, just as JFK reflexively reacted to his first gunshot wound. Trump ducked a moment after reacting to being shot. The expression on Trump’s face in the photo of him crouched down on the stage, makes it very clear he was shot.
Does talking like an idiot come naturally to you, or do you have to work at it?
I think he has to work hard at it, and he is very successful at being an idiot.
@Fast Eddy, time to get back on the Lithium, the mailman is not stalking you, you are not a spy from mars. don’t make me tell mom you are on the internet again!!!!
Kim cheater is cheating.
Sloped roof. Not the 3 worthless women on the detail?
Sloped roof? Give me a break. Accountability to this DEI hire must be her kryptonite.
If Cheatle doesn’t given Biden her resignation letter, she’ll have to give it to Trump.
I don’t want a resignation, I want her charged and tried like Trump and Flynn, et al.
Damn! When did they start putting slopes on roofs?
This event, and the irrational defense of the SS Director, seems to be flushing out those whose politics transcends just about Everything.
It’s worse if you start really digging into this thing. There are some fascinating videos and comments from people on X (Twitter) that really bring out the curiosity. The best I can say that if this isn’t something worse the incompetence of the planners at the secret service was staggering and will eventually be a study of how many ways there are not to protect a president. I was never a big Trump fan but these anti-Trump people in government and media have gone too far. Let’s hope things calm down.
the secret service was defeated by a zip-tied gate.
Hiring incompetent people because they have the right parts and the right connections always results in this.
Less “sloped” than the one they were on.
We don’t even have a roof anymore because the last roof was sloped……. SMH
I guess her next job is roofer.
They aren’t even trying to hide it with that answer. They need to pull her asap and put someone up front with legitimate answers.
The SS intentionally left a gaping hole in security to allow for a shooter. No one is that incompetent.
I bet the government was in contact with shooter. Some online chats where they troll for losers that they can manipulate.
Wish – I don’t know if you have control over this, but I now get a relentless pop up ad that covers your articles. Very irritating. As in, I will stop using your site if it continues. when I try to close it a message says “Ad served by Google” and gives me the option to send feedback. One option in the feedback is “ad covered writing”, but when I click on that, the ad is replaced by a new ad in the same space. Very very irritating.
Hi Tom
Can you do a screen capture of the ad please?
Are you using Chrome?
If so, please try this, even if the ads are not Norton
How to Kill Norton and McAfee Scam Ad Popups
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Finally, if you are chrome, can you screen capture the notifications that you remove.
Thanks – sorry for the problems
I get the same thing on a lot of sites. It isn’t Mish. The process even tells you it is google. The disclaimer from them even tells you they are responsible for replacing an ad that was covering content by leaving other content in its place. Google owns chrome so the solution if desired is simple for them. However, it isn’t desired.
same thing on my iphone, thats why i use a notebook with an ad blocker for any real browsing. Also iphone spell checker makes me sound like a 3rd grade dropout with autocorrection powered by 3rd world call center.
My tinfoil conspiracy theory has 2 parts. The first is that the shooter never intended to kill Trump, just wound him. The shooter succeeded in that goal.
The 2nd part is that Trump’s security team was intentionally hobbled in the hopes that something would happen to him. Despite the secret service’s best efforts to get Trump killed, it was a doomed plan because that was not the shooter’s goal.
dtj…There is a possible 3rd conspiracy do you know what it is????
So they picked a 20 year old kid willing to die who was a good enough shot to hit a man 1/4″ from where it would kill him … from 150 yards away? You do know that the earth is not flat right?
The timing of Trump’s head turn at the time of impact makes this all but impossible. It’s a bullet, not a laser beam. Even the best sharpshooter in the world cannot anticipate a random movement.
I’m not averse to conspiracy theories … but the logistics have to work at some level. As you point out … the sudden movement … and as we see that it is a 1/4″ accuracy issue from 150 yards … the logistics just are not there. If someone wants to say that the shooter was paid by Russia or China or the DNC or whoever … there is a possibility … but I would not agree to have a 20 year old kid shoot and require that level of accuracy with my head moving.
If it comes out that the shooter is descended from Annie Oakley and Wild Bill I will agree with this assessment.
Otherwise there is no bleeping way you plan to just injure someone by whizzing a rifle round past their head close enough to graze them.
he was the progeny of two pyschotherapist. look it up. how better to raise a psycho-child, than a steady dose of mental meds and the ravings of two government shrinks (state of Pa was their employer)
No wonder he had no friends and was only “allowed” to go shooting with his dad for a hobby. Bates hotel comes to mind.
what a childhood..
You have to be joking! If the intent was only to wound and not kill then a marksman would aim for the arm/shoulder and not the ear. Plus aiming for the ear has too much risk of being off by an inch either by the target moving his head like Trump did or by any slight error in aiming. The shooter wasn’t a sharpshooter but just a guy who wasn’t skilled at all.
That theory is ridiculous, as others have pointed out to aim for and just knick his ear would be a tough shot on a stationary object let alone one that is constantly moving. If your off by one inch he’s instantly dead. But your theory just highlights the distrust people have with any sort of news, it happens constantly on both sides. I solely put the blame for this on the Mainstream Media. They have so destroyed their credibility, been caught in so many lies and hiding and manipulating the truth it has gotten to a point where nobody trusts what is being reported and this spawns all sorts of conspiracies, it happens in your country and my country. That is a true crisis!
A former high-school classmate said that he was relentlessly bullied for various reasons – one of which was that he would wear hunting attire to school despite being such a lousy shot that he couldn’t make the school shooting team
from his nervous demeanor, i suspect his parents dosed him with LSD on more than a few occasions.
Normally, one would say to bring this to the attention of the President but Biden doesn’t have much of a brain left and would be unlikely to understand what you were asking him to do.
If you fired public sector employees for poor performance then you’d reduce the government workforce by over 90%. Anyone that has any experience in the public sector and has 1/2 a brain can vouch for this. This is true from the very bottom to the very top, regardless of title and including the president.
It has been my experience that metal barn roofs can be SLICK and might be a challenge for city folks, especially, if moving around on them is new to them and depending on their footwear. Then there’s the fear of heights, not everyone can work aloft. As to those non-English speaking roofers, it’s not uncommon for them to end up in the ER from falls. They may have failed to plan for this building?
Lol
And yet nearly every building in most of the nation has a sloped roof…
I sense sloped logic…
Are you serious?
The shooter brought his own ladder placed it against the Building where SS supposedly was inside and got up on the roof.
What was SS doing while inside the building, playing cards to kill time?
SS can practice walking up a 3 inch rise for every 12 inches horizontal by elevating their gym treadmill.
They are reporting a purchase of a 5′ ladder at Home Depot while Daily Mail has a picture of a 10′ ladder against the building. I guess a 5′ ladder is more believable than a 10 footer that is very heavy and everyone within 500′ would notice.
SS agent #1 talking to SS agent #2 is there a bathroom inside this building otherwise I have to go outside to pee.
Maybe I’ll go outside by the back wall.
SS agent #2 responds nah why bother, go in that corner over there. It’s hot outside.
Now these people were stationed inside a building which posed a threat to the stage for logistical purpose. This is high command logic to realize that taking a walk around the building is a worthwhile endeavor?
If anyone was present, asking for some show of ID in a secured location and purpose for being there is standard fare.
also there should be a rule, that no civilians with rifles at political speeches. a million rules fail, when no one bothers to enforce them. Deliberate or incompetence, the end result is the same. The FBI and the Secret Service need to be rebuilt from the ground up. Merit must be measured and be the only measure of the individuals advancement in the heirarchy. the useless and the political hires must be terminated with a letter in their file, like you know the fbi sniper who shot and killed Randy Weaver’s wife, oh wait he got a medal, but he did get a letter in his file for losing his phone… so kinda a half win…..
Wasn’t too hard for the shooter. Should’ve been easy peasy for well trained SS agents. Enough of the excuses admit the failures start distributing the pink slips. These agents are SUPPOSED to be THE BEST
So, logistics person at PepsiCo. A Fortune 500 company.
A sociology Major.
Rejected from USSS once before the diversity stuff started ramping up.
A corporate mole? Looking at the total swiss cheese of security detail, you have to wonder
apparently the excrement also rises? the nation has been hollowed from within since world war II, when the National Security Act was signed by Truman. Mostly the banking families and their network, moving the pieces into place.
Look up the last Secretary of War – James Forrestal, was suicided to make way for the new entities that now control our government.
The 20th century was a long slog by the British Empire to regain possesion of the renegade colony of the USA, in the meantime the British Empire itself was acquired by foreign agents. leading to much
anarchy in the world, we are witnessing the creaks and groans of a bloated plan collapsing..
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Sloped roof….pfft….it’s so much worse than that.
Local snipers were setup IN THE FLIPPING BUILDING the shooter used!!!! One of the snipers saw him use a range finder, leave and return with a back pack, and leave a 3rd time.These snipers took pictures of the shooter.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sniper-picture-trump-rally-shooter-rangefinder-assassination-attempt/
The incompetence is unbelievable… literally.
In my neck of the woods I see Spanish speaking immigrants working on sloped roofs every day of the week. Perhaps the answer is that our SS agents should simply be replaced by immigrants.
Well the problem is they’re already so used to dodging bullets where they come from that it might be tough to retrain that instinct out of them.
This all sounds the same as the Kennedy assignation
was CIA and FBI involved in this
Guess we all know the answer to that question Phil
Hopefully she leaves the House Oversight committee meeting in handcuffs.
Maybe they will move her to the Office of Personnel Management where her Sociology degree might come in more handy. DEI strikes again.
It’s a long-standing stutter; it’s a head cold; it’s overpreparation. This sloped roof nonsense easily dismissed by fact the SS snipers were on a steeper roof and, after the suspect was killed, folks were walking all over that shallow roof with ease. The cover ups have been happening for a long long time and the drivebys will hear that she made a statement and accept it at face value. Same folks took “51 intelligence officials” word on the Hunter Biden laptop story, which we now know was complete election interference by abusing deep state power by folks that were aware the FBI had it in their possession and it was very real.
At this point I wouldn’t believe anything that comes from government, I’d have to be there and see it with my own eyes. Even then I would question the integrity of what I was looking at (ex: FBI laying out Top Secret folders on floor for photo op at Mar-a-Lago which we now also know was staged).
This director should step down. A botched operation nearly leading to President Trump’s demise requires taking responsibility. Head coaches in the NFL are fired the next day in situations like this. They know the score when they take the job.
And when NPR told folks within 2 hours of the incident to stand down/tamp it down, well, I nearly lost it. Most persecuted person I’ve witnessed and still stays in the fight. I will not stand down. In fact, why should we tamp it down/tone it down/stand down when the Secret Service director, who failed, won’t step down.
Unbelievable! Gotta be just about the worst excuse ever.
Wait until she testifies “the dog ate my security plan” at the congressional hearings…
There could have been a hundred protection flubs in the last few years for Biden and Trump that were never revealed or reported. Donalds death would have taken us back to 2015. A much quieter year.
Quiet isn’t always better, quiet is a feature of death. Life itself is motion and activity. A dead nation is very quiet.
No one gets fired for incompetency anymore. No one resigns. See Menendez
See Janet Reno, attorney general at the Waco debacle….
I feel a lot better about graduating from the same high school as Dan Orlovsky of the 0-16 Lions.
that is funny. Well at least he is a better analyst.
Its only because she is a woman, and not there is anything wrong with it, a lesbian, 2 reasons to not being able to be fired in America
Sorry, I said it. But tell me that is not true
I’m not getting on any plane that doesn’t have at least one white heterosexual male in the cockpit – even if he’s one of the stewardesses.
And he wasn’t jabbed
did you see SS at RNC when Trump came out last night/other night??
I didnt see anyone under 6ft and I didnt see any women LOL
They brought the Varsity this time
What? They left the Secret Service cosplayers at home?? LOL
Trump os going to have his hands full come January 20th. The swamp keeps getting swampier and swampier.
Not to worry everyone. As I commented before, she will fail upwards, as is the way in DC
After the “CIA” steals the election again for Biden or whoever, despite being 20 points behind Trump, and you better not challenge it, Ms Cheatle will likely be named CIA Director or Ambassador to Russia or something
70% Probability I think
Nah, as long as Trump doesn’t get overconfident, he’ll campaign hard in the swing states and win almost all of them. I bet this election has Trump with 300+ electoral votes, just like in 2016.
How dare anyone suggest we endanger the safety of the agents whose duty it is to take a bullet for the president?
Only a woman could come up with such an idiotic excuse.
The first part of your comment is spot on but any sex can perform terribly and then make stupid excuses. Just look at our outrageous national debt driven up by our majority male Congress who continue to ignore it and make stupid excuses about it.
most women do possess a “special” kind of logic that is very ego centric, its part of their programming by nature to make them good mothers, but rather difficult for the rest of us to deal with who are not her children.
Men and women are different and that is a very good thing, it is only when we try to make them the same we fail.
Huh. The “grassy knoll” was more sloped than that roof. Honestly, professionalism is totally dead in this country. Excuse making is at kindergarten levels and nobody takes responsibility for anything anymore. The age of corrupt incompetents being let off without even a slap on the wrist began when people started saying “mistakes were made” or “decisions could have been better” without referring to WHO made the mistakes or decisions.
Look at the COvid debacle, no one was even chastised, cept maybe fauci by rand paul. An epic failure with a multi-trillion dollar price tag that even now we are living through the repercussions, such as inflation, malaise and death and injury.
But nobody was at fault, nothing was changed.. nobody did nuthin.
Wow. My grandfather and my three years old nephew are fittest than a Secret Service agent. They CAN walk up and down slopes….
There are numerous pictures of many agents surrounding the body on that “sloped roof.
So far I have not read about the deaths and injuries suffered by those intrepid souls who put their life on the line by venturing onto that roof AFTER the shooting.
Utterly unfit for purpose, dysfunctional, if not outright criminal and treasonous. Typical of the entire Biden regime.
The more I’ve aged the more I’ve come to dislike females of any age and especially those in any political office. ☮️🔦✝️
I’m with you! I started off being rather egalitarian and then gradually, through life experience realized why women were held back throughout history.
LOL. I read a book on that. Its called The Cultural Devastion of American Women. I kid you not
I’m sure somehow it was all white men’s fault…
Trump is alive, so they didn’t completely fail.
that depends on what their mission truly was…
Sloped roof was a hazard?..I mean that’s on the level of ‘the dog ate my homework’ excuse when the teacher knows the kid doesn’t even have a dog.
She’ll resign, in time. She has too, or get fired. Her comments only reinforce her incompetency in be the leadership position she is.
They’ll replace her with another non-white non-male person. And who uses the pronoun “they.”
yeah really steep slope wouldn’t want to endanger a SS agent i climbed out on the roof a a kid in Bklyn. to collect clothpins out of the rain gutters that was steeper than that slightly sloped roof This broad heading the Secret Service is full of it
When’s the next High School Reunion? Could be fun. The pitch on that roof is maybe 3-12? Not much of a pitch.
yep. Should be easily able to walk the rafters without sheathing on them.
No more difficult then walking on a sidewalk when it is sheathed and roofed.
Belly laughed out loud on that one!!!!!!!!!!
Not even 3/12…. closer to 1/12..
!!! and yes there is a pitch gauge app on my phone…
Incompetence from A to Z in so many Democrat appointees is not by chance but by design. J. D. Vance and I are from the same town, went to the same high school and the same university.
I just starting reading his book, yes a little late to the game. What an amazing story. I love this guy
Between my father, brother and I and other relatives we were able to figure out who is who in the book. Funny thing, one of those who grew up in a very dysfunctional household ended up owning 52 houses at the last count.