During a field hearing on the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump on Monday, former Navy SEAL and Blackwater founder Erik Prince provided detailed analysis on security failures that were evident during and in the lead up to the assassination attempt.

U.S. Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) — a former SEAL Team sniper who did multiple combat tours in Iraq — began by asking Mr. Prince about his company’s record.

After leaving the SEAL Teams, Prince founded Blackwater initially as a training company for law enforcement and military units. Upon the outbreak of the war on terror, Blackwater shifted to providing security for diplomats and other high-profile protectees in active war zones. A total of 41 Blackwater contractors — the majority of whom were U.S. special forces veterans — were killed in action during the Iraq war.

Blackwater has the distinction of having never lost a protectee.

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During Monday’s hearing, Rep. Crane asked Prince whether he believes the Secret Service can counter a more serious threat in its current state. “You said something interesting on an episode of Sean Ryan that I saw a couple weeks ago. You said, thank God it was a 20-year-old kid and not a 10-man Hezbollah team. Can you expound on that a little bit?” Crane asked.

“Sure, because the fact that a 20-year-old kid could get his drone in the air, could get himself into a firing position only 140 yards away. 140 yards is point-blank range. My then 12-year-old son could have made that shot. And thank God that 20-year-old aimed at a headshot at President Trump. Because if he’d aimed center mass, President Trump would probably be dead,” Prince replied, noting that the former president was not wearing any protective armor at the time.

“A Hezbollah team or ISIS or you name the terrorist organization that actually knows what they’re doing would have been successful that day. And the Secret Service was nearly defeated by a 20 year old and we all, including Donald Trump, literally dodged a bullet that day,” Prince added.

“So I want to double down on that real quick. In your opinion, in your professional opinion, is the Secret Service in its current form and leadership able to stop a threat like that?” Crane followed up.

“President Trump was definitely deprived of resources that day for whatever their political reason. They had one third the amount of agents covering him as we’re covering Jill Biden in the same region at an indoor event. She had 12 post-holders covering her Again, no statutory or constitutional authority for the first lady,” the Blackwater founder answered.

Prince went on to list a number of security failures evident during the lead up to and actual day of the Butler, Pennsylvania rally, including the fact that Secret Service agents left the rooftop uncovered, failed to sync up with local law enforcement radios, and overall lack of communication.

“To even when shots were fired, the clumsy, unprofessional way of getting the protectee off the X, there was catastrophic failure across the entire enterprise.”

Elsewhere in the hearing, Prince pointed to waste and unchecked incompetence that permeates the entire federal government.

“We’re here today to discuss a tragedy for the United States of America that could have been the catalyst in the destruction of our republic. World War I started with botched diplomatic security. The assassination of one party’s leading candidate a mere four months before the election, at minimum, would have unleashed unimaginable chaos and violence,” Prince told lawmakers.

“The cancerous rot of unaccountability has metastasized throughout our entire body politic. Our obscene levels of government waste ooze like a gelatinous mold across society. Our borders, so porous they are reminiscent of a spring flood tide. The security apparatus suffers failure upon failure globally. Our enemies mocking us even while the permanent deep state has weaponized the justice system and delivers a Soviet style of lawfare. In the case of Butler, Pennsylvania, only the disinfectant of transparency and accountability will start to repair the cascading errors that led to the tragedy.”

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