Yesterday’s assassination attempt on President Trump has stunned the world. We thank God that President Trump came out OK, knowing that just a few millimeters of difference could have resulted in a deadly outcome. While the profoundly unsettling event in Butler, Pennsylvania, opens up a whole host of troubling questions, which we will of course address here in due course, the most pressing and immediate one is how this could have happened in the first place. How on earth could the Secret Service have screwed up so badly?

To get a sense of how bad the screw-up was (assuming it was indeed a screw-up and not something more sinister), it is helpful to understand some facts. One might at first imagine that in order for a gunman to get within shooting distance of President Trump, he must have employed sophisticated concealment methods of the sort usually reserved for spy films. Except this wasn’t the case at all. The shooter was perched on top of a building 150 yards away from where Trump was speaking. Law enforcement experts familiar with security protocols are simply baffled that one of the few rooftops near Trump wasn’t secured, much less how a man could get up there with a rifle and have time to take a shot.

Even those with no security experience whatsoever can look at the image and understand that it would be a no-brainer to secure the rooftop in question.

I’ve been inside Secret Service protected outdoor areas before. They had their own guys or state police on every roof top in sight of the president. This is odd.

— Matt in Iowa (@bigredmatt1011) July 14, 2024

It is simply unfathomable how the secret service sniper didn’t see Trump’s would-be assassin—and again, that there wouldn’t have been a Secret Service agent posted where the would-be assassin was. Look at the image again and reflect on whether it makes any sense.

In fact, there is video of the Secret Service sniper engaging the gunman. How could he not have seen the gunman before he fired his first shot? How was the gunman able to get off eight shots before finally being taken out?

Obviously, they knew where he was because they were trying to warn the Secret Service of the guy on the roof. The shits off..

— GentlemanJack (@xGentleManJack) July 14, 2024

Most disturbing of all, there are direct accounts of rallygoers who claim to have seen the gunman on the roof and alerted authorities, only to have their warnings fall on deaf ears. Extremely strange.

BREAKING: Eyewitness says he informed police about a suspicious man on a roof.

Why didn't they do anything about it? pic.twitter.com/044w9Ag6bE

— TaraBull (@TaraBull808) July 14, 2024

In light of this nearly unfathomable degree of incompetence, we’re forced to ask whether there isn’t something more sinister going on. It is impossible not to engage in such dark speculation, especially given what we know (and have reported) about the Secret Service’s equally unfathomably suspicious behavior when it comes to the January 6th Pipe Bomb.

READ MORE: Secret Service Foreknowledge or Criminal Negligence? Damning New Evidence Surfaces in FBI’s January 6 “Pipe Bomb” Story

It is also quite relevant to note that the Secret Service as of 2011 belongs to the Department of Homeland Security, which happens to be the tip of the spear when it comes to the political weaponization of the national security establishment. We have written extensively about the DHS and its dangerous behavior.

READ MORE: Revolver Investigates Disturbing Link Between DHS and the Domestic War on MAGA

It is especially noteworthy that former Congressman Bennie Thompson has repeatedly called to revoke Trump’s Secret Service protection.

Leading Democrats introduced legislation intended to strip President Trump of Secret Service protection.

They did that at the same time as Joe Biden called President Trump a "dictator," and Nancy Pelosi said President Trump "must be stopped." pic.twitter.com/x0L5Lq93bz

— Alex Pfeiffer (@__Pfeiffer) July 13, 2024

This is the same Congressman whose staffer publicly gloated about the assassination attempt yesterday.

This woman is a field director for Congressman Bennie Thompson. You may remember him as the chairman of the J6 committee so let’s just see how long she stays employed! 😡 pic.twitter.com/lArf2QTKYs

— WHS39042 (@whs39042) July 14, 2024

That Bennie Thompson would be so conspicuously associated with efforts to deprive Trump of Secret Service protection is disturbing enough. This becomes still more troubling, however, when one understands just how close his association with the Secret Service actually is. Apart from his notable roles as congressman and head of the disgraced January 6 Committee, Bennie Thompson was also the head of the Homeland Security Committee from 2009–2011 and from 2019–2023. Essentially, whenever Democrats control Congress, Bennie Thompson is their connection to the Department of Homeland Security—the agency that, remember, just happens to run and control the Secret Service.

At the very least, it is fair to say that the Secret Service has been involved in a number of highly suspicious and highly politically charged events in the past several years. Chief among them are yesterday’s assassination attempt and the January 6 pipe bomb hoax, in both of which cases the Secret Service acted with such flagrant and unfathomable incompetence that one must entertain darker explanations for their behavior. When you add this to the fact that the Secret Service is housed within the Department of Homeland Security—arguably the most politically charged and hostile agency in government when it comes to the political weaponization of the national security state—the picture becomes darker still. It’s time to get some answers.