Former President Donald Trump gave an exclusive interview to Breitbart News on Sunday in which he shared his experience of the assassination attempt on his life at a Butler, Pennsylvania rally on July 13.
Trump was shot in the ear during the attempt, and three rallygoers were also shot, one fatally, by a 20-year-old gunman who lay in wait on a rooftop less than 200 yards away.
Trump said he knew immediately that he was shot and said the odds were "millions to nothing" that he didn't get shot in the head, which he believes would have been fatal.
“I’m turning, and I’m dead here, I’m dead here, I’m dead here, dead, dead, alive, dead,” Trump said. “So, think, you only have this exact spot right here. This is an amazing phenomena. It’s millions to nothing. There’s about an eighth of a second where I’m good. The rest of the time you’re dead.”
He said that if he hadn't gone down as soon as he was hit, some of the other eight bullets fired by gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks likely would have hit him.
“How about if you had that on slow-motion instant replay?” he said. “Couple of things just to think of it because it’s got to be divine intervention.”
Trump said his views on the Secret Service were mixed. Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned after the attempt and others were put on administrative leave.
“So, Secret Service they obviously had a big lapse when they didn’t cover the roof of that building,” Trump said. “Yet, they were very brave when they jumped on me when I went down. I reacted very well because I went down fast.”
“The Secret Service sniper was incredible,” Trump went on later in the interview. “One shot from 400 yards right there—can you believe it? He didn’t know about it. He was a shooter—an unbelievable shooter. He heard the noise, he looks around—I guess his eyes are good. That’s four football fields—that’s a lot.”
Breitbart pointed out that 12% of presidents have been assassinated and many more have had plots against them before, during and after their tenure in office.
“Being president is a dangerous profession,” Trump told Breitbart News. “If you look, how many people have been assassinated? Then you see how many people have been attempted? You know, Reagan almost died—he came close to dying actually. People don’t know that, but they thought they were going to lose him.”
“It’s a pretty high number,” Trump said of the number of presidential assassinations. “And if you talk about attempted, attempted is pretty bad too.”
Trump said he insisted on getting up and putting his fist in the air after being shot and resisted being taken out on a stretcher. Some of the Secret Service members protecting him thought he had been hit more than once, and didn't know the gunman had been taken out.
“People think it’s the most iconic moment,” Trump said.
He praised the crowd for not stampeding out of the rally location, preventing even more injuries and possibly even deaths from trampling. "They didn’t flinch," he said.
In a battleground state that was the scene of contentious disputes following the 2020 presidential election, a candidate for a top judicial post has withdrawn his election bid to instead work on behalf of the GOP ticket more broadly.
As the Detroit Free Press reports, Matthew DePerno, a lawyer who was seeking a spot on the Michigan Supreme Court, pulled his name from consideration just before the state's Republican Party convention was set to commence.
DePerno's name gained notoriety in recent years, largely due to a lawsuit he filed that included claims of manipulated vote tabulation machinery during the last presidential election.
It was, he argued, in Antrim County that equipment was adjusted in a manner designed to harm Trump's candidacy and benefit that of Joe Biden.
In the wake of that controversy, DePerno challenged Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel in 2022, but lost his bid to unseat the well-known liberal.
As NPR noted at the time, it was in 2023 that DePerno was charged with allegedly attempting to unlawfully gain access to voting machines in 2020 as part of the battle over tabulation equipment.
DePerno faces counts of undue possession of a voting machine, willfully damaging a voting machine, and conspiracy, felonies for which he is currently awaiting trial.
Just before the GOP convention began in Flint over the weekend, DePerno informed the party of his withdrawal decision via email, saying, “I've come to the conclusion that I can best help President Trump win Michigan by making sure that we have the strongest absentee and early vote program anywhere in the country – stronger than the Democrats.”
He continued, “Therefore, I am withdrawing my nomination for Supreme Court and asking fellow delegates to dig deep and think hard about which of the candidates for each of these positions would make the strongest ticket in November.”
DePerno, who, according to campaign finance records, had only raised $100 for his Supreme Court bid, went on to declare his endorsement of Branch County Circuit Judge Patrick O' Grady for a partial, four-year term on the panel, for which he was indeed selected to run.
State Rep. Andrew Fink was also chosen by the delegates to seek an eight-year term on the state's highest court.
Adding a touch of drama to the day was the appearance of embattled former party chair Kristina Karamo, who turned up on the convention floor before being escorted out by law enforcement officers.
Though Karamo said she was simply there to support a candidate and was not disrupting the proceedings, current party chair Pete Hoekstra maintained that unless she accepted the offer of a guests pass to observe things from the gallery, she would be ejected due to her lack of delegate status.
With the Great Lakes State widely acknowledged as one of the critical swing states that could make or break either presidential candidate's chances of winning the White House, the eyes of the country will continue to follow the substantial attention both parties are likely to pay to Michigan voters in the months to come.
Chicago experienced dozens of shootings with several of them fatal during the Democratic National Convention, the Washington Times reported. It followed a bloody weekend leading up to the convention as the party that made the Windy City so dangerous turned out to celebrate its presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris.
The DNC lasted from August 19 to 22, culminating Thursday night with Harris' official nomination. However, outside the convention center and all of its splendor was a bloodbath that is par for the course in the Democrat-controlled city.
Even as President Joe Biden spoke about a recent in national crimes nationally on the first night of the convention, there were eight shootings, four of which were fatal in Chicago. There was also an armed robbery as Democrats convened in the city.
The next night brought an aggravating battery shooting and 12 victims from a total of five more shootings. The third night was just as bloody, with a stabbing as well as nine shootings impacting 13 victims, including one fatality.
The weekend before the convention also brought violence and death in a troubling trend for the city. Although estimates varied about the actual number of victims, WLS-TV reported at least 30 shootings, with five fatalities as preparations were underway at the United Center.
One of those included a 17-year-old who died at an area hospital after being wounded in the stomach and back, according to WTTW-TV. He and a 16-year-old were shot Saturday night as they stood on a porch in a residential neighborhood.
This comes after a summer of violence, including a bloody July 4th weekend when 109 people were shot, with 19 of them fatally wounded, the New York Post reported. Police were out in force for the convention that championed the Democratic Party, which only a few years ago denigrated law enforcement.
"Our officers are out there. They're out there. They're highly visible," Chicago Police Department Superintendent Larry Snelling said Monday, according to Fox News.
"And we have officers not only along the corridors downtown, in and around the venues of the Democratic National Convention, but also in our neighborhoods to continue to protect our people who are living in areas that are the most vulnerable. Our officers are protecting the entire city," Snelling added.
Judging from the wake of the destruction their policies leave, it's clear that Democrats are the party of chaos and disorder. Besides the normal crime in Chicago, Democrats also drew anti-Isreal protesters on the fourth day of the convention.
As Fox News reported, several protesters waved Palestinian flags, clashed with counterprotesters, and taunted police. "You guys are the ones with guns!" one of the protestors shouted at the police.
Just like with crime, Democrats are attempting to play both sides of the issue in the war between Israel and Hamas. While trying to court anti-Israel groups, the party sidled up to Israel at the convention by snubbing a pro-Palestine speaker, The Hill reported.
Although Democrats accuse former President Donald Trump of being divisive, they are the ones who routinely sow chaos and discord with their policies. Whether it is support against America's allies or abolishing police, Democrats do the exact thing that will bring misery and social decay every time.
It's the same reason Chicago was in shambles as the Democratic Party showcased its platform and politicians. Ironically, they made their case for the White House in a place full that shows their policies only bring violence, death, and civil unrest.
The Democratic Party snubbed a give pro-Palestinian speaker at the Democratic National Convention this week, which sparked outrage in the Uncommitted National Movement, the Washington Examiner reported. This move has potentially put them in a difficult position with voters.
Representatives from the movement said Thursday that their position was not given a platform at the DNC. This is particularly galling because others, like Israel victims of the Hamas attacks and some Republicans, were allowed to speak.
The group is one of the many calling for a ceasefire as Israel defends itself in the wake of an attack perpetrated by Hamas. The Democratic Party is stuck between two factions of its base as President Joe Biden supports the war in Israel while others are calling for them to give up.
The uncommitted movement has gained traction, earning two delegates in Michigan by casting ballots with the designation in the Democratic primary. It has excoriated Biden for "funding war crimes and the mass killing of Palestinians" while calling the Israeli government "murderous."
Vice President Kamala Harris was named the nominee at the convention on Thursday. However, this controversy over the speaker erupted the same day and threatened to bleed over into her support.
As Vox noted, the DNC was progressing well this week and gaining momentum for Harris. That changed after Georgia House of Representatives Democrat Ruwa Romman was effectively denied the right to speak at the convention.
She is a Palestinian-American and a supporter of the uncommitted movement. Romman said she just wanted to share the plight of the Palestinian civilians caught up in the consequences of the conflict.
Instead, she was denied a spot on the main stage while Israeli Americans impacted by the war were given the right to voice their opinions. This sparked an exodus from the Muslim Women for Harris-Walz, which disbanded over the decision to allow no Palestinians to speak.
Romman took exception to the fact that she was silenced while even a Republican was allowed to speak at the DNC. "When I saw [Republican former] lieutenant governor Geoff Duncan on that stage, knowing that the party rejected me — a member of the party and a Democratic elected official — frankly, it was just too much," Romman said.
Romman was hoping for the bare minimum for her position at the DNC. Instead, it confirmed what her side of the conflict had felt all along about which side Democrats were on.
"This was supposed to be the symbolic bare minimum ask. We understand that we can’t change policy in a single election cycle, and this was supposed to be an easy way for the party to unite us on this issue," Romman said.
"A lot of people care about this. Anybody who’s at the convention has seen the amount of people wearing pins and keffiyehs and flags. It is everywhere," she pointed out.
Indeed, support for Israel was a long-held value among Democratic politicians and their constituents. However, that has changed since the attack on Israel sparked a war with Hamas in Palestine and has fractured the party and created a difficult conundrum for Democrats that makes supporting either side difficult.
This issue threatens to splinter Democratic Party support in November. Harris may find it an obstacle in her road to victory that will cost her the election.
Former President Donald Trump announced that his youngest son, Barron Trump, will attend college in New York, the New York Post reported in an exclusive. He has not disclosed which institution, though there is speculation it will be New York University.
Barron Trump graduated from high school in May but has not announced his plans for higher education yet. The news outlet asked Trump about Barron's intentions while the GOP presidential nominee campaigned in Michigan.
Trump noted that Barron, who was accepted to several schools, would be attending college in the Empire State. "He’s all set in a certain school that’s very good," Trump said.
When asked whether it was New York University, Trump did not deny it but just smiled at the reporter. "He’s always been a very good student; he’s smart," Trump said.
The youngest Trump child comes from a family of businessmen and, with his father's 2016 presidential win, a political pedigree as well. Yet Trump said that Barron has little interest in politics, though there are signs that might be changing.
"He’s a little on the tall side. I will tell you, he’s a tall one, but he is a good-looking guy," Trump began about Barron, who stands at 6 feet 7 inches, on the "Kayal and Company" show on 1210 WPHT radio in May.
"And he’s really been a great student. And he does like politics. It’s sort of funny," Trump added. "He’ll tell me sometimes, 'Dad, this is what you have to do.'"
The former president and his wife, Melania, have been notoriously private about their son, who is the only child of the former first lady. However, Barron made his first campaign appearance for his father at a campaign event in Doral, Florida, in June.
According to The Hill, Trump introduced Barron to an eager crowd. "You’re pretty popular; he might be more popular than Don and Eric; we gotta talk about this. Hey Don, we gotta talk about this," Trump said, referring to his adult sons.
Barron did not speak at the Florida rally and backed out of attending the Republican National Convention. However, his singular move edging toward the world of politics could be a sign of things to come.
As noted by the BBC, Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump, Jr., has become an unofficial spokesman for his father. He also may have had a hand in picking his vice presidential running mate Sen. JD Vance of Ohio.
Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump's next eldest child, played a prominent role in his administration's policymaking. She has mostly stepped away from politics while her younger brother, Eric Trump, continues influencing his father's political and business decisions.
The in-laws have also played a prominent role in Donald Trump's political life. Ivanka's husband, Jared Kushner, was a member of Trump's administration, while Donald Trump Jr.'s fiance, Kimberly Guilfoyle, remains a public supporter of the former president.
Barron undoubtedly has a bright future ahead of him, including the opportunity to attend a top-tier educational institution. However, it remains unknown whether he will follow in his father's political footsteps after that.
Megastar Jennifer Lopez, 55, has officially filed for divorce from Ben Affleck, 53, after just two years of marriage, Breitbart reported. The legal filing says that the pair, who first struck up a romance in 2001, are no longer on speaking terms.
Lopez, who has been married three times, and Affleck, married once before, first became a couple after meeting on the set of the box office bomb "Gigli" in 2001. Their relationship quickly became a media sensation, which the tabloid media dubbed "Bennifer."
However, the pressures of such scrutiny led the Hollywood royals to call off their planned 2003 nuptials. Then, after a decade apart, Lopez and Affleck rekindled their relationship in 2021.
"It’s a beautiful love story that we got a second chance," Lopez gushed at the start of their renewed love affair. The pair were engaged again in April 2022 and tied the knot in Las Vegas that year before holding a grand ceremony at Affleck's Georgia estate.
According to Page Six, the marriage began to fracture during their honeymoon in Como, Italy. As photographers snapped photos of the lovebirds touring and shopping, Affleck grew increasingly frustrated by the attention.
"He was unhappy with paparazzi following them. She is an international superstar, and he acted like it came as a surprise that they would be followed around," a source told the news outlet.
Behind the facade of a happy couple were two people already at war with each other. "They would barely speak to each other during what was supposed to be the happiest time of their life," the source said.
"He sold her on him being a changed man, and that lasted a very short time," the person added. Affleck struggled with addiction to alcohol but has been steadily rebuilding his life sober.
The source said part of the problem with their renewed romantic relationship was that Affleck was still adjusting to life without addiction. "He was just getting sober… He was in a vulnerable state, and whatever their chemistry played into that… He was in this frenzied, excitable state," the person said.
Affleck and Lopez are both Hollywood A-listers. He is an Oscar-winning actor, while she is an accomplished dancer, actress, and award-winning singer.
They have a history in their own relationship and they have common ground regarding life as celebrities. Unfortunately, both of those factors likely contributed to their marriage problems.
Earlier this year, Lopez was forced to cancel her tour, citing family problems amid reports of lackluster ticket sales, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The tour was tied to a new album, This Is Me ... Now, and a musical film, This Is Me … Now: A Love Story.
It also spawned a documentary about the making of those titled The Greatest Love Story Never Told. These projects spotlighted the couple's marriage while Lopez was mocked incessantly for being out of touch and unlikeable. It was also clear Affleck was not on board with this kind of overexposure she created for them.
Hollywood is full of broken relationships, including the dissolution of the latest iteration of Bennifer. Both will go on to other things, but theirs is another cautionary tale about living life in the fishbowl of modern celebrity.
Former President Donald Trump's campaign was forced to cancel events due to Secret Service failures before the assassination attempt on July 13, the Daily Caller reported. The campaign asked for extra protection but was routinely denied it because the agency claimed it didn't have the resources.
The world was stunned when suspected gunman Thomas Crooks shot Trump in the head at a Butler, Pennsylvania, outdoor rally. The former president was wounded in the ear, but aftermath has led to discussions about how the Secret Service and FBI failed to protect him.
Crooks was able to get off several shots despite being identified as a threat as much as an hour before pulling the trigger. Former Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle, who resigned over her failures, said that nobody was on the roof where the gunman set up because it was "sloped."
Still, it now appears this was part of a larger pattern that sometimes forced Trump to cancel events and rallies. His team had asked for bomb-sniffing canines, specialty teams, and magnetometers but were routinely turned down due to lack of funding.
The Secret Service received news of credible threats against Trump's life just days before Crooks would open fire on Trump. Just ahead of a Doral, Florida, rally, the agency shared the information with the campaign, the Washington Post reported.
"The bad guys are at it again," an adviser recalled the Secret Service telling them. The Justice Department got involved and Trump received more protection than he normally would, and for good reason.
It was not long after that the FBI arrested a Pakistani national in a sting operation as the person was planning a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by Iran. Still, it didn't stop Crooks, who has no known connection to any government or plot, from taking his shot at the former president.
Cheatle would mostly blame local law enforcement for the oversights that led to the shooting, but it's clear that the Secret Service wasn't up to the task despite the known threats. It plays into a broader debate about whether the agency is competent and properly equipped to do its job.
Notably, the agency has increased security for Trump since the shooting, including the use of bulletproof glass at his rallies. However, until the Secret Service takes full responsibility, the issues that led to this assassination attempt can't be properly addressed.
The Secret Service claims that it has difficulty doing its job because of the unique risks involved in protecting Trump. The former president likes to spend time at his golf courses, including his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, that doubles as a resort.
Trump likes to dine with customers and be among those who frequent his establishments. This presents a problem as those coming and going are not screened, and just about anyone can approach Trump.
One person who played at Trump's club in 2023 was surprised at how easy it was to get near the former president. "We were totally shocked we could just walk in the bar and sit down right next to him," the patron said.
"We didn’t go through mags; we didn’t do anything. We just finished our round, walked right over, sat next to him in the clubhouse, and had lunch. You could just walk over to his table. It was pretty surprising to all of us," the person recalled.
Protecting Trump is fraught with challenges, but the Secret Service should be able to overcome them. At the very least, the agency could have provided the extra measures Trump's team requested for his rallies. Had they done so, perhaps Crooks would have been stopped long before he ever made it to that roof.
A Wisconsin-based Catholic Charities group is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to exempt it from a state unemployment program after the Wisconsin state Supreme Court ruled that it was not classified under "typical" religious activities because of the way it is run.
"Catholic Charities Bureau carries out our Diocese’s essential ministry of caring for the most vulnerable members of our society," said Bishop James Powers, Bishop of the Diocese of Superior. "We pray the Court will recognize that this work of improving the human condition is rooted in Christ’s call to care for those in need."
Catholic Charities groups see their ministry as helping the needy, but they don't make their aid conditional upon the receivers believing the same thing they do.
They make it a point to hire people even if they don't share Catholic beliefs and don't try to convert them, which is what made the state supreme court say they weren't "typical" for a religious group.
If the group only hired Catholics and tried to convert those it serves, it could be exempt, the state court said.
"The Wisconsin Supreme Court thought it atypical of religion that Catholic Charities does not ‘attempt to imbue’ those it helps with the Catholic faith, and that it hires employees 'regardless of religion.' And the court held that because Catholic Charities provides services that ‘can be provided by organizations of either religious or secular motivations,’ those services do not have a religious purpose," the petition to the Supreme Court stated.
"Put another way, it doesn’t matter if Catholic Charities gives a cup of water in Jesus’ name, because non-religious charities offer cups of water too," it reasoned.
"That absurd result deepens a split between state courts that require religious entities to conform to stereotypes to qualify for the ‘religious purposes’ exemption and those that do not," the petition said.
"And that thrusts state governments into a thicket of First Amendment questions under the Free Exercise Clause, the Establishment Clause, and the church autonomy doctrine, not least because it forces agencies and courts to second-guess the religious decisions of religious bodies," it continued.
In so many words, the petition is saying, "Since when does any court get to decide whether the way we practice our religion is valid?
That's a good point: there are all kinds of religious practices these days, and no one outside the religion should be allowed to force it to conform to any specific thing in order to be considered a valid religious practice.
As long as it doesn't break any laws, why should a court get to determine this?
"It shouldn’t take a theologian to understand that serving the poor is a religious duty for Catholics," said Eric Rassbach, senior counsel at Becket. "But the Wisconsin Supreme Court embraced the absurd conclusion that Catholic Charities has no religious purpose. We’re asking the Supreme Court to step in and fix that mistake."
The Supreme Court might decide as early as this fall to take the case.
Joe Biden's recent withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race left voters with numerous questions, particularly given the strange and abrupt manner in which it occurred.
However, it has since emerged that the president's decision to abandon his re-election bid was influenced heavily by the strong-arm tactics employed by his longtime friend and political ally, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as the New York Post reports.
Citing sources who spoke to the Daily Mail, the Post indicated that in a last-ditch bid to force the hand of Biden, who had continued to rebuff those inside his party who wanted him to step aside, Pelosi determined that a game of hardball was in order.
According to those sources, Pelosi let Biden know that if he did not walk away from his hopes of another term in the White House, she would take matters into her own hands and go public with damning assertions about his prospects.
Biden, who was then convalescing in Delaware after a COVID-19 diagnosis, received a message from the so-called Speaker Emerita suggesting that the time had come for him to leave the political stage in terms of the 2024 election.
Specifically, Pelosi is said to have informed Biden that she was prepared to make public her own belief that he had little chance of defeating former President Donald Trump at the ballot box, suggesting that she had plentiful -- and embarrassing -- polling data to support that claim.
The ensuing deliberations in which Biden engaged were likened by the insiders as something of a “come to Jesus” moment after which the wheels were put in motion to facilitate his withdrawal announcement.
Though Pelosi and other top Democratic Party leaders have attempted to downplay their role in Biden's decision, the president himself recently all but acknowledged the truth of the account provided to the Mail.
During a recent interview with CBS News Sunday Morning, Biden stated, “A number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races.”
“I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic – you'd be interviewing me about why did Nancy Pelosi say [something]...and I thought it'd be a real distraction,” Biden continued.
Former high-level Biden adviser Anita Dunn offered her take on the situation saying that pressure from Pelosi absolutely drove the decision, saying, “You know clearly there were leaders of the party who decided to go ahead and go very public. And that gave permission to other people to go public.”
Despite her role in what some have likened to a coup against Biden, Pelosi remains hopeful that no hard feelings will remain, recently declaring, “In our family, we have three generations of love for Joe Biden.”
The president, for his part, may not be so keen to mend fences anytime soon, however, as Fox News reports, with insiders suggesting that he remains bitter towards Pelosi as well as former President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, all individuals he believes had a hand in his forced departure from the campaign.
Though there are plans in place to honor Biden at this week's Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and the president himself will deliver a speech on Monday, he is not expected to linger long after that, steering clear of those he blames for the “ruthless” treatment he received from those he once considered friends.
Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has been given her own security detail following several threats, the Washington Examiner reported. Cheatle stepped down in disgrace last month after she failed to stop an assassination attempt against President Donald Trump.
Trump was struck by a bullet at a Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on July 13. Although the former president did not sustain life-threatening injuries, one of the rallygoers, a former fire chief, lost his life.
In addition, two others were seriously wounded by the would-be assassin's bullets. This rightly left many people pointing fingers at Cheatle for such a glaring failure to protect the GOP candidate, with some of that criticism also coming in the form of threats on her life.
The agency has assigned Cheatle protection from the Dignitary Protection Division, which is typically reserved for visiting foreign leaders. This marks the first time such a provision has been made by the agency for one of its own.
There is no justification for threatening Cheatle or anyone else over what happened to Trump. However, it is still appropriate to recognize the many failures she had a hand in that led to Trump almost losing his life.
"The Secret Service’s solemn mission is to protect our nation’s leaders. On July 13th, we failed," Cheatle admitted to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee days after the shooting, according to the Associated Press.
The agency failed to act when it was alerted to a suspicious person, who turned out to be shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks, as many as five separate times. Crooks was also spotted at the event using a rangefinder device used by marksmen to line up shots.
The Secret Service had identified the roof where Crooks would ultimately fire off several rounds before being taken out by law enforcement snipers as an area requiring personnel. It was apparently left wide open on the day of the rally anyway.
Moreover, local law enforcement had also voiced concerns about Crooks and took photos of him as a possible threat before the rally began. However, nothing was done about him until he began shooting at Trump.
Cheatle had been reluctant to resign, but CNN reported that she finally stepped down at the end of July. "In light of recent events, it is with a heavy heart that I have made the difficult decision to step down as your Director," she wrote.
It's become abundantly clear that Cheatle was only a symptom of a larger problem with incompetence within the agency. As Fox News recently revealed, an agent allegedly abandoned her post to breastfeed her baby at a rally for Trump in North Carolina.
RealClearPolitics correspondent Susan Crabtree posted about the event in an exclusive to X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday. Crabtree wrote that "a woman Secret Service special agent abandoned her post to breastfeed with no permission/warning to the event site agent..."
🚨🚨EXCLUSIVE and BREAKING: During a Donald Trump visit to North Carolina yesterday, a woman Secret Service special agent abandoned her post to breastfeed with no permission/warning to the event site agent, according to three sources in the Secret Service community.
Shortly… pic.twitter.com/lkfhhLcA0B
— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) August 15, 2024
There's no excuse for people to threaten officials like Cheatle, regardless of her role in the attempted assassination. Ironically, she'll likely receive better protection than she provided for the former president she was charged with guarding.