Shocking clues come out of the US Senate briefing on the attempt on President Trump‘s life. Some facts that Senators shared with reporters appear unbelievable and do raise suspicions. Is it a conspiracy? Is it incompetence? Or could it be wokeness?
Indeed, failure may also be related to the current Secret Service head’s obsession with DEI – diversity, equality and inclusion.
After taking over in 2022, Kimberly Cheatle, a former PepsiCo executive, vowed to make fundamental changes to the agency’s ethics and culture.
“We need to attract diverse candidates, and ensure that we are developing and giving opportunities for everybody in our workforce, and particularly women,” Cheatle told CBS News in 2022. She has since set a goal to have women make up 30 per cent of recruits by 2030.
One particular female agent involved in Trump’s assassination attempt has gone viral on social media. Instead of rushing to cover him, she is seen ducking. Moments later, as others help the President escape, she appears clearly unable to put her sidearm back into its holster – the most basic of moves. All in all, she looks dazed and confused.
Another female agent, although she bravely tries to cover the former US President with her body, is clearly unable to do so satisfactorily. She is just too short.
The Secret Service is rightfully on the line. Its overall slack and unprofessional response to the threat needs to be accounted for.
The suspect was identified more than an hour before the shooting. Half an hour after the initial person report, Pennsylvania State Police notified the Secret Service. The Secret Service notified its snipers almost 20 minutes before he opened fire – but gave them no order to neutralise him.
This is definitely not a “very short” period of time, as Cheatle told ABC, between when Crooks was identified as suspicious and when he shot at Trump.
And then there is the sloped roof excuse. When asked why there were no agents where Crooks nested, Cheatle said that “there’s a safety factor that would be considered there, that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof. And so the decision was made to secure the building from inside.”
This may be the most telling detail of them all. Secret Service agents are obviously no longer expected to be real life Jason Stathams, who can go any place, any time, under any conditions. No more leatherneck, battle hardened, super fit guys required. Too much “toxic masculinity.”
Cheatle has actually changed the fitness criteria for the agency. In order to apply, one only needs to be able to do fourteen push-ups, twenty sit-ups, and run (or walk, if tired) a mile and a half in under 20 minutes.
So nowadays you don’t even need to be seriously fit in order to protect Presidents, Vice Presidents and former Presidents. And if you are, you may end up rejected because you are not black, Asian, Hispanic, homosexual or female enough.
Of course all the details on how the Secret Service failed so utterly in protecting President Trump and ended up with one dead and three wounded need to be thoroughly investigated. But before this, we should also not ignore what is obvious.
In the business of protecting people and saving lives, wokeness can prove fatal.
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