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Idk if the ss is competent or not these days, but there's vastly more to what they do than when they're standing around the president on the day of. Lots of intel and counter-intel work. People don't try to shoot the potus that often, and the ones who do tend to rant about it a lot.
The nature of things have changed too, the kid did aerial recon with his own personal drone before going to the event. He had improvised explosives. He could have done a lot of things with enough ingenuity.
Just wait until someone tries an assassination directly via explosive-armed commercial drone. I think it's only a matter of "when", not "if".
Umm, didn't Maduro did experience one attempt...?
Yes, although I think that was CIA backed and not just some random individual, but it just as easily could have been.
Well that’s true. I imagine their recon and support teams are hard at work, except the snipers who watched Crooks for like 20 minutes, but the protection job seems very sloppy. Like not even a kevlar blanket lol. Just using your hand.
He says “wait let me grab my shoes” and someone says “ok sir” and one of the agents grabbed his fallen hat for him lmao. Wouldn’t it be more effective to force him into a box and carry it to the limo
Yeah I was surprised they didn't have any bulletproof shields or blankets. That was weird. Those tools exist now, where were they?