Question. How did shooter guy know Trump would be there?
It was a reasonable and logical deduction, based on Trump's patterns of behavior. It's his golf club, his home of record is nearby, and he loves to play golf. It wouldn't be too hard to guess that on a Sunday with no campaign events scheduled, he wouldn't be sitting around the pool at Mar-A-Lago...
Could there be a mole in the Secret Service
No.
The US Secret Service is the oldest (by far) federal law enforcement agency, having been founded by President Lincoln in 1865, and in all that time, they have never had a renegade, traitor, turncoat, or spy in their ranks. Everybody else has dealt with those issues from time to time, but not the Secret Service.
Their vetting process is extremely thorough and selective, the toughest in the federal government. You can become a Special Agent for the FBI...DEA...ATF...HSI...or any of the other law enforcement agencies in Uncle Sam's Rolodex...easier than you become a Secret Service agent.
Have there been instances of personal misconduct from time to time with individual members of the USSS? Have there been lapses in performance? Yes, and those have been publicly dealt with, and appropriate corrections made. But there is no systemic problem or issue with that agency...they are the finest in the world at what they do.
No, there is no "mole" at the US Secret Service.
Hard to trust any of the alphabet agencies these days.
Rudi, with all due respect, unless you have firsthand knowledge of all of those alphabet agencies, your comment tells us only where you get your news. On what basis do you distrust those agencies? I've raised this issue on here before: How do we know what we know? Who tells us what we ultimately come to believe?
Every single day, many thousands of men and women across this country work to protect us and ensure our security. Some are very visible, many are not.
Some work with computers, some carry guns. Some of them work in offices behind many layers of security, while others are exposed to danger, in the open, every single day. Some work in major cities around the world, others in small towns and suburbs.
Many of them cannot talk about what they do, even with their spouses and families. When people ask what they do for a living, they reply simply that "I work for the government."
They're not political, and they have no mission beyond serving the country. I know that sounds hard to believe in our polarized society, where so many people see sinister conspiracies everywhere, but it's true. (Secret Service agents laughingly say "we don't elect 'em, we just protect 'em.")
The one thing they all have in common is the oath they take...
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God."
