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The way I look at it, Trump is:
The Secret Service might be good, but they are not perfect. It's not surprising if they just genuinely slipped up after almost 10 years of protecting Trump.
I don’t see incompetence when the crowd is literally walking up to the SS and telling them they see a guy with a gun on a roof and they don’t do anything. It’s just not possible that a group of people trying to protect someone have multiple people report a man on a roof with a gun and just don’t do anything.
If you've ever tried to manage people in a large and complicated setting like a concert, a mass causality event and so on you know it's extremely hard to triage these sorts of things and get them to the right people. Even something as self-contained as running a single patient trauma or a two pilot aircraft can result in poor communication and distribution of information.
Consider how easy it would be to mentally write this off as "oh yeah that's one of the police sniper teams."
Now if you have one organization that should have a plan for how to handle "tips" like this and not fuck up like this it should be the secret service - but that's incompetence not malice.
The standard way to launder malice is by appointing incompetent underlings for the task.
Are doctors appointed to patients randomly?
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It's possible. The Secret Service are humans, not superpowered ninjas from a movie. They are good at what they do, but the reality is that there are probably like 30 million people in this country who would happily kill Trump if they could do it and get away with it. The Secret Service has managed to successfully protect Trump for 10 years, through hundreds of outdoor rallies and so on. They're not perfect, so it's rational that they eventually fucked up. One might argue that it's weird that the two assassination attempts that we know of that even came close both happened shortly before the election, but that can be explained by the fact that just before the election is precisely when random lone wolves would be most motivated to try to kill Trump.
It might seem weird that the Secret Service would not do anything in reaction to someone telling them they see a guy on the roof with a gun... but at the end of the day, it's a job for them. We all have bad days on the job when we're tired or whatever. Besides, if I my job was protecting Trump for years and having to stand around in all kinds of weather conditions listening to him ramble for hours, and someone told me that there was a reason to think Trump might be about to get shot, I can easily imagine even as an elite Secret Service operator being like "fuck who cares, I'm tired of all this shit".
I think you don't know much about the Secret Service. They are extremely dedicated to their jobs. While their reputation as elites has taken a (justifiable) hit lately, they go to great effort to recruit and train people whose job is literally to take a bullet for their charge if need be. And part of that job is, obviously, a full understanding that these people will be chosen by the political process, and it may be someone you personally don't like. This is why I find conspiracy theories about how the SS has been infiltrated by the Deep State and set up Trump to to be assassinated extremely unlikely. Incompetence and sloppiness is easier to believe than the SS not only turning into a treasonous conspiracy but deciding that letting an untrained mentally ill teen take a shot at someone. This is comic book villain plotting.
A Secret Service operator being like "fuck who cares, I'm tired of all this shit" would be someone who is having a breakdown of some kind and needs to be relieved of duty. It might have happened (they are human beings) but it would not be normal.
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Really? If you were a Secret Service agent and your job involved such trivial and predictable hardships as standing around outside a lot and listening to the President talk, then you'd get so bored that you'd just completely ignore reports of an assassin? If this were actually an accurate description of your own level of diligence and not motivated reasoning, then you would be literally and objectively unqualified to hold pretty much any job whatsoever.
Sorry if my first post comes off as a flame, but this is a frankly ludicrous comment and I don't know how else to express it. There are absolutely no circumstances under which a Secret Service agent ignoring reports of a rooftop sniper is even the least bit understandable or excusable. That isn't being "not a super ninja" but rather being completely and utterly derelict to a degree indistinguishable from treason.
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