The shocking security bungles that got Donald Trump shot make less and less sense

The more that emerges about the Butler, Pa., assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the less sense it seems to make.And the confusion is almost as bad as the massive foul-ups that allowed shooter Thomas Crooks to get off eight rounds, nearly killing the ex-prez.In an interim report last week, a Senate committee probing the disaster listed multiple Secret Service failures that allowed the shooter to nearly assassinate Trump, kill another man and badly injure two more:In additional House testimony Thursday, a former Secret Service agent called the security arrangements “atypical.” The larger mystery is how such poor planning and so many botches could have happened.Indeed, the incompetence — from beginning to end — is staggering, even for the bungle-prone Harris-Biden folks.The list of why’s is endless, yet answers have been elusive — and contradictory.The Secret Service, for instance, opted not to place an agent on the AGR roof, we were first told, because it was too “sloped.” Then because it was “too hot.”That soon morphed into someone deciding it wasn’t necessary.What gives?Meanwhile, information has dribbled out slowly since the shooting, adding to the public’s confusion with every new fact.Last week, Americans discovered that counter snipers wouldn’t have been assigned to the event at all, except for the word of that “credible evidence.” That contradicts claims that added personnel weren’t provided because Trump doesn’t hold high office and wasn’t yet the official GOP nominee.OK: No one wants to take the rap for such monumental failures, so all finger-pointing, evasions, contradictions and collective blame-shifting comes as no surprise.Fine.Congress should get to the bottom of this story, then every bungler should be fired.Yes, USSS Director Kimberly Cheatle has already been forced out, after her own bit of stonewalling.But the guy in the White House who hired Cheatle shares culpability, too.

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