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Post by Admin on Jul 23, 2024 18:02:33 GMT
The U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Accountability Committee held a hearing on the 22nd regarding the shooting incident of Republican former President Donald Trump (78) that occurred on the 13th in eastern Pennsylvania.
Secretary Cheatle, the head of the Secret Service, acknowledged that ``failing to prevent the assassination attempt on Mr. Trump was the Guard's biggest failure in decades.'' US media reported on the 23rd that Cheatle had resigned.
Regarding the shooting incident, the US newspaper The Washington Post reported on the 21st that over the past two years, Trump's side had repeatedly requested the National Guard to strengthen security, but had been refused for reasons such as a lack of personnel. At the public hearing, questions focused on this point.
Cheatle said Mr. Trump's security had been "increased prior to the campaign, and has been increased since then in response to heightened threats."
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Post by Admin on Jul 24, 2024 13:51:03 GMT
Regarding the shooting incident of Mr. Trump, American media reports that the suspect, Thomas Crooks, who was shot and killed, appears to have been flying a drone at the venue to preview the event before the rally.
Under these circumstances, the New York Times reported on the 23rd that, based on its own analysis of footage from the scene, it appears that the suspect was obscured by trees and could hardly be seen by the Secret Service sniper. It is possible that the suspect may have committed the crime by exploiting the blind spot of security authorities based on information obtained from a preliminary inspection using a drone.
The Department of Homeland Security announced that the head of the Secret Service, Secretary Cheatle, has resigned. Chief Cheatle said at a Congressional hearing that this was "the biggest security failure in decades, and I take full responsibility for it.''
Following Secretary Cheatle's resignation, former President Trump criticized the Biden-Harris administration on social media, saying, ``The Biden-Harris administration failed to protect me properly, so I ended up getting hit with a bullet.''
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Post by Admin on Jul 25, 2024 2:13:59 GMT
He suggested that Trump's assassination attempt may have been "Ukraine-related," and that the assassination was motivated by opposition to Trump's policies toward the war in Ukraine.
"This scenario was picked up and popularized by Russian state media hosts who implied that the US 'deep state' was complicit, if not involved, in the assassination attempt," researchers pointed out.
"Russian propagandists also linked the assassination attempt to the collapse of American democracy and accused Democrats of creating an environment conducive to political violence."
Russian state media outlets RT (formerly Russia Today), TASS and Sputnik claim to have obtained a letter sent to Trump by Viktor Medvedchuk, a Ukrainian politician close to the country's President Vladimir Putin. Medvedchuk was sanctioned by the European Union this year for spreading Russian propaganda in the Czech Republic.
The letter said the assassination attempt was because Trump promised to end the war in Ukraine.
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Post by Admin on Jul 26, 2024 7:35:59 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jul 26, 2024 11:14:49 GMT
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