Another Secret Service Failure: Agents Failed To Pick Up Radios Assigned by Police
Local law enforcement set aside special radios for Secret Service agents the day before Trump’s rally in Butler Pennsylvania, but those radios were never picked up.
The radios were intended to allow law enforcement and Secret Service agents to communicate during the rally.
According to CNN, this failure contributed to significant confusion that could have cost Donald Trump his life, and did cost the life of Corey Comperatore, a member of the audience.
Details about the radios emerged in a Congressional report published by Rep. Clay Higgins, who is serving on the Congressional task force investigating the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
Higgins claims that a county emergency services commander had “personally reminded” Secret Service counter-sniper teams to pick up their assigned radios at a command post located at the Butler County Fairgrounds. “It didn’t happen,” Higgins’ report stated.
The claim about the radios was confirmed to CNN by Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger.
“I can confirm that the Butler County ESU team made radios available to the Secret Service and that they were not utilized by the Secret Service,” Goldinger said in a statement.
“It is safe to assume that if a holder of an ESU radio was paying attention, they would have received the call,” Goldinger added.
The Secret Service said in a statement that they will examine Higgins’ report and are “committed to investigating the decisions and actions of personnel related to the event in Butler, Pennsylvania” and will hold “our personnel accountable to the highest professional standards.”
Rep. Higgins and other members of the Congressional task force will visit Butler on Monday to meet with local officials and tour the site of the rally.
A communication breakdown has been highlighted as one of the key contributing factors allowing Thomas Matthew Crooks to gain access to his rooftop sniper’s perch and fire eight shots at the former president before being eliminated.
“Local officials were penned in by a cumbersome hierarchical system of reporting that stymied the flow of urgent information from one unit to the next,” Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa told CNN in a statement.
“There was no unified radio channel for all law enforcement on the premises to communicate in the event of an emergency—instead, units connected over various radio channels, group chats and even emails,” Grassley said. “Officers relied heavily on spotty cell service to get their messages through, and were often unsure if the right law enforcement entity received them.”
RFK Jr: ‘Democrats Are Working To Usher In New World Order’
RFK Jr. has warned that the Democratic Party are working to destroy American democracy and usher in a ‘New World Order.’ During his address to the nation Friday, RFK slammed Democrats for turning their backs […]
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The Smears Begin: Author Claims RFK Jr. Was Coke Dealer at Harvard
A former classmate at Harvard has come forward to allege RFK Jr. was a cocaine dealer at Harvard, just hours after RFK Jr. dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Donald Trump.
In a piece for the Atlantic entitled, “RFK Jr. Was My Drug Dealer,” Kurt Andersen details an occasion at Harvard in the early 1970s when he says he bought cocaine from RFK Jr. and his brother Joe.
“As a teenager in Nebraska, I’d smoked cannabis and dropped acid before I got to Harvard in 1972. Sometime during my freshman year, I tried cocaine, enjoyed it, and later decided to procure a gram for myself. A friend told me about a kid in our class who was selling coke.
“The dealer was Bobby Kennedy. I’d never met him. I got in touch; he said sure, come over to his room in Hurlbut, his dorm, where I’d never been, a five-minute walk.”
Andersen says that RFK Jr. gave him cocaine for $40 and a plastic straw to snort it. After snorting the drug in Kennedy’s dorm, Andersen left—with the straw in his possession.
Kennedy then furiously called him to demand he return the straw, because it was “growing crystals” inside it from the residual cocaine and nasal mucus.
Andersen claims this sour ending to the deal shows Kennedy’s true character.
“His almost fetishistic obsession with a bit of plastic trash. His greedy little burst of anger cloaked in righteousness. His faith that he was cultivating precious cocaine crystals. In retrospect, it has seemed to me a tiny illustration of the child as the father of the man he became: fantastical pseudoscientific crusader, middle-aged preppy dick who takes selfies with barbecued dogs and plays pranks with roadkill bear cubs he didn’t have time to eat.”
Andersen is quite frank in the piece about his motivation for revealing this episode: RFK’s endorsement of Donald Trump for president, which took place just a few hours before Andersen’s piece was published.
In particular, Andersen says he wants to highlight the hypocrisy of RFK Jr. endorsing a man who has repeatedly claimed that drug dealers should be executed.
Kennedy has made no secrets of his past struggles with drug addiction, which began during his teens. He was arrested in 1970 in Cape Cod for marijuana possession, and later suffered a near-fatal overdose on a flight.
“It’s Huge”: CNN Anchor Says RFK Endorsement Could Win Election for Trump
RFK Jr.’s stunning endorsement of President Trump could decisively win the election for Trump, according to CNN’s Erin Burnett.
On CNN on Friday night, Burnett considered the potential impact of Kennedy’s endorsement on the election, on the basis of the latest polling information.
“The latest swing state polls show Kennedy with 5 or 6% of the vote,” Burnett said.
“Now you might say, that’s not a big deal. Actually, if that’s the case, it is huge. It is everything.”
CNN’s Erin Burnett reacts to RFK’s endorsement of Trump: “The latest swing state polls show Kennedy with 5 or 6 percent of the vote. Now you might say, that’s not a big deal… Actually, if that’s the case, it is HUGE — it is everything” pic.twitter.com/773wMXdjqG
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) August 23, 2024
RFK Jr.’s decision to drop out of the election race has been nothing short of electrifying.
In a speech delivered on Friday, RFK Jr. said that his decision to join forces with Trump was motivated by their alignment on key issues.
He added that although there are “still issues and approaches upon which we continue to have very serious differences,” he and Trump are “aligned with each other on other key issues, like ending the Forever Wars, ending the childhood disease epidemics, securing the border, protecting freedom of speech, unravelling the corporate capture of our regulatory agencies, getting the US intelligence agency is out of the business of propagandizing and censoring and surveilling Americans, and interfering with our elections.”
RFK Jr. also revealed that he had attempted to speak with Kamala Harris before making his decision, but he was rebuffed.
“Vice president Harris decline to meet or even speak with me,” he said.
Later on Friday, RFK Jr. joined Trump on stage in Arizona, making a spectacular entrance with pyrotechnics, to the strains of the Foo Fighters’ song “My hero.”
As the two men stood on stage together, Trump praised RFK Jr. for his decades of work on environmentalism and health, and said that he would establish a presidential commission into chronic diseases, something he promised to do when RFK Jr. first announced his candidacy in 2023.
“Nobody’s done more” than RFK Jr. to “advocate for the health of our families and children,” Trump said.
“Millions and millions of Americans who want clean air, clean water, and a healthy nation have concerns about toxins in our environment and pesticides in our food. That’s why today I’m repeating my pledge to establish a panel of top experts working with Bobby to investigate what is causing the decades-long increase in chronic health problems and childhood diseases,” he added.
“An Era of Shock Events” Is Coming, Says WEF
The world must brace for “an era of shock events,” according to the World Economic Forum.
In a new opinion piece posted on the Forum’s website, Professor Maha Hosain Aziz, of New York University, says that the coming decade will be “shaped by heightened global risk and unpredictable shock events.”
“Anything can happen in our post-pandemic era,” Aziz claims.
He goes on to list three potential “shock events” that could happen soon.
The first is the emergence of a “new global extremist group,” which the professor claims could use AI to create a new kind of terrorism.
“With the world distracted with multiple major wars and leadership in decline, this could be an opportunistic time for a new extremist group to make its mark—and maybe not face as many consequences. Perhaps, it will even leverage AI tools to kick off a new phase of terrorism.”
The next potential “shock event” is a deliberate “cyber pandemic.” Aziz points to the recent Crowdstrike outage, which crippled computer systems worldwide, as an example of the chaos and damage a large-scale cyberattack could cause. The outage cost Fortune 500 companies $5.4 billion alone.
“Imagine if a bad actor did this—on purpose and an even grander scale?”
Professor Aziz’s final prediction is that a small island nation could sink under the ocean due to climate change.
“The COP28 plan to phase out fossil fuels may take decades and it’s unclear if world leaders will follow through.What’s more probable is that in the meantime certain island nations (who emit only 0.3% of global emissions) will keep fighting their cause, whether it is through international law or new climate funds. But, if these islands do succumb to climate change, sinking a lot faster than we expect, how will climate activists and world leaders react?”
Other predictions made by Professor Aziz include the dispersal of global power away from the US, which is “burdened with global wars and domestic challenges;” that the “recurrent crisis of political legitimacy,” in the US and abroad, will deepen; and there will be a “more complex global mental health crisis.”
In 2022, WEF founder Klaus Schwab warned that the world must prepare for “the frightening scenario of a comprehensive cyber attack,” which would make the COVID-19 pandemic seem like a “small disturbance” by comparison.
Three Killed in Knife Attack at German “Festival of Diversity”
At least three people were killed and several others injured in a knife attack at a festival in Germany.
The attack took place at the “Festival of Diversity” in the German city of Solingen, at about 9.40pm local time. The attacker fled the scene and has yet to be apprehended.
In a statement, police said that eight people were injured, at least five of them seriously. Earlier reports suggested four people had been seriously injured.
According to eyewitnesses, the attacker was a lone male, wielding a knife. He is said to have attacked visitors to the festival indiscriminately.
The attacker has been described on social media as an “Arab man.”
The authorities, however, have remained tight-lipped about the attacker’s identity.
“No one knows who the attacker is,” said Herbert Reul, interior minister of the region.
“We should not spread speculations now. There are simply no confirmed facts yet.”
“Even if any eyewitness said this or that, doesn’t mean its true,” Reul added. “Many impressions are influenced by the stress and shock of the moment.”
The Festival of Diversity was being held in the city to celebrate its 650th anniversary. It was expected to draw 75,000 people over this weekend, with events including music, theatre and acrobatics. A children’s parade was held earlier in the day on Friday, before the attack.