Like most people, I was
shocked to learn that former American president Donald Trump was shot as he
attended a rally in the small town of Butler, Pennsylvania last weekend (13
July). Fortunately, he was not seriously injured, sustaining a grazed ear as
his would-be assassin narrowly missed his target. Two other people in the
stands behind Trump were seriously wounded while a third man, a former fire
chief from the area was shot dead protecting his family by covering them with
his body. The entire incident—from the assassin’s first shot until Secret
Service snipers returned fire,
killing 20-year-old Matthew Crooks—was over in a matter of seconds. Trump was then
bundled off stage by his Secret Service bodyguards into a waiting limousine and
taken to a local hospital for medical treatment.
TRUMP LATER posted he was well and offered his condolences to the family
of the former fire chief who’d been killed and his best wishes for those
wounded during the incident. Five days later he attended the Republican
National Convention venue in Milwaukee where he became the party’s candidate to
run against Joe Biden in the upcoming presidential elections this November.
THERE ARE MANY QUESTIONS to be answered in the coming days and weeks as
several inquires into the incident have been convened to review the conduct of
local police and in particular the Secret Service which is tasked with the
safety of the former president. There are issues around how effective the
Secret Services’ command and control protocols and communications networks were,
as well as lapses in on-site inspections and placement of personnel around the
event, etc. There are various reports that the assassin was spotted several
minutes or more before shots were fired hanging around the
perimeter of the rally near the buildings located closest to the podium.
👉Bystanders even filmed him on top of the
building from which he presumably fired. Why wasn’t this obvious “high point” covered
by police or Secret Service personnel? Further, it appears authorities were
alerted by rally attendees about a person acting suspiciously on the outskirts
of the event upwards of 30 minutes before the shooting. Why was there no
follow up of their reports?
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| West and Gordon |
THAT SAID, I think it’s fair to say the Secret Service’s B-team was on
deck last Saturday, and frankly it showed. [Some Secret Service members guarding the former
president were replacements for his usual team. Ed.] But I’d like to cut to the
chase and offer a solution for the once and future king president’s bodyguard
problems: Send in the best of the best, namely, Secret Service agents Capt. James T. West
and Artemus Gordon, arguably the most dynamic and successful team the Service
ever produced. They would never dodge a bullet or leave at large any culprit
that was a threat to the president or to the United States. Even their arch-foe,
the maniacal, criminal mastermind Doctor Migulito Loveless fell beneath their ‘sword
of justice’.
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HIRED during the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, their long-standing
track record of 100% case closures is rivaled by few in the
agency’s long and storied history. In fact, their dispatch to take the reins of
Donald Trump’s protection team could take place in a matter of days, or weeks at
the most, as soon as their private railroad car catches up with the Trump campaign
tour. Good luck, sirs!
“Charming
gunslinger James West and Artemus Gordon, an inventor and master of disguise,
are the country's first Secret Service agents, traveling the Old West at the
behest of President Ulysses S Grant, fighting villains, encountering beautiful
women and dealing with fiendish plots to take over the world.”
Cheers, Jake.
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