More damning evidence is coming about the Secret Service.
The embattled agency is in worse shape than anyone thought.
And Jesse Watters was speechless over this horrible failure by the Secret Service.
Secret Service agent missed Donald Trump’s would-be assassin at point-blank range
The House Task Force investigating the assassination attempts against President-elect Donald Trump released its final report with its findings and recommendations for the Secret Service.
It included some shocking new details about Ryan Routh’s attempt to shoot the President-elect at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Secret Service agents encountered Routh while he was hiding in the bushes outside of a fence waiting for Trump to play through.
Fox News host Jesse Watters revealed a shocking detail from the House report that left him flabbergasted.
“New revelations from the Trump assassination task force. According to their report, the Secret Service agent who spotted Ryan Routh in the bushes outside Trump’s golf course was only five feet away when he opened fire. And missed him not once, not twice, but six times,” Watters said. “He missed him six times from five feet. How does a trained agent who passed the firearms test miss a target five feet away?”
Routh fled the scene after the shots were fired and was eventually arrested by the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.
One of the Secret Service agents protecting Trump after he survived the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania is completely incompetent.
The agent would almost have to be trying to miss at that close of range to not hit a target with six shots.
House investigators praised the Secret Service agent in the bipartisan report.
“The special agent’s quick response and decision to discharge his firearm in the direction of the threat prevented a potentially lethal or other dangerous scenario from occurring,” the House report stated.
Secret Service’s failure at Trump’s Florida golf club gets worse
The Secret Service had another disturbing failure to secure Trump’s golf club before he played.
“That’s not all. The report says the Secret Service found out at 2:30 in the morning that Trump would be golfing later that day, but they didn’t secure the course, allowing Routh to camp out for twelve hours before anyone saw him,” Watters explained.
Trump’s decision to play golf that day was portrayed as a last-minute one that left the Secret Service no time to secure the course.
“Meanwhile, Routh appeared in federal court this morning and his legal team signaling they’re going to go with the insanity defense. How convenient,” Watters said. “Routh’s public defender said he has had multiple meetings with a mental health expert while in jail and witnesses who saw him before the arrest say he was hallucinating and delusional. Of course.”
Watters highlighted an overlooked but disturbing detail about Routh that the House report didn’t touch on.
“Routh has written nearly 40 letters to news outlets in an attempt to convince them he’s an honorable guy, but they were intercepted before they could reach their targets. We also know that only 17 of the 18 cell phones found in Routh’s possession belong to him. Why does he have 18 cell phones? And wait, he has 17 so who owns the last phone, and why did Routh have it?” Watters wondered.
The Secret Service’s incompetence after Trump was nearly killed in July raises worrying questions about the agency’s leadership.
DeSantis Daily will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
