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Trump’s Security Breaches: A Wake-Up Call for the Secret Service
The American Secret Service and the CIA, like the Israeli MOSSAD, have their work cut out for them in protecting Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
This article highlights why the American Secret Service and law enforcement agencies must redouble their efforts and avoid repeating the glaring mistakes made during the first attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
With two assassination attempts on Donald Trump alone, the Secret Service overseeing the protection of both leaders and their running mates must prepare for another potential attempt. They must ensure that their protection protocols maintain balance and psychological advantage over those plotting such nefarious acts in this election year.
Under no circumstances should those they are protecting be allowed to dictate security protocols. Allowing Donald Trump to waste time asking for his shoes and celebrating his narrow escape by raising his fist in the air was a clear breach of security protocol. This should never have been allowed, yet it was.
Trump, or perhaps the entire country, was fortunate there was only one shooter. If there had been two or three, already infiltrated into the political rally, they could have easily finished the job as Trump, ignorant of the danger, stood up and waved to the crowd like a folk hero. This made him a soft target before being pushed into a car and rushed to the nearest emergency room.
Those Secret Service officers who failed to strictly adhere to security protocol on that fateful day should face consequences.
I recall Napoleon Bonaparte, as the Grand Commander of the French Army, ordering one of his security details to be court-martialled and dismissed for showing him preferential treatment.
The General deliberately passed through a gate at his presidential palace in Paris, where the standing order was clear: anyone passing through that gate, regardless of status, had to be thoroughly searched, down to their undergarments.
The security guard, recognising Napoleon, thought he was doing the General a favour by letting him through without the mandated search. He was swiftly dismissed, court-martialled, and faced the firing squad for breaching protocol.
Desperation can be sensed in Trump’s frequent claims of impending violence and bloodshed if he does not win the election in November. He has repeatedly told his supporters that the only way he could lose is if the election is rigged. By saying this, he is indirectly giving his followers instructions, which they understand and are prepared to follow, just as they did before.
He tells his supporters that if they don’t “fight like hell,” they will no longer have a country. This rhetoric is a call for rebellion and anarchy, couched in a racist tone, the likes of which have not been seen in America before.
If American law enforcement ignores what Trump is saying and doing in the lead-up to the election, they will only have themselves to blame, just as they did on January 6, 2021.
On that day, his army of insurrectionists from groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers marched to the Capitol, following his orders to take back the country by force. In many other countries, if a coup fails, the perpetrators do not live to tell the tale. It’s as simple as that.
Yet, Trump, a convicted felon, walks free today, his name giving him protection in a country where “no man is above the law” is often just a political slogan. The whole world has seen, through rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court, that Trump is effectively above the law.
He has claimed he could shoot someone in broad daylight on 5th Avenue and not lose support, which has, disturbingly, become true as his followers remain loyal, forming what appears to be a cult.
I am not inventing this narrative—Trump’s own words support it.
If Trump were to win on November 5th, he would likely feel empowered to assassinate his political opponents, imprison them, or deport them en masse. He would enjoy absolute immunity for any crimes committed while acting as President of the United States, disregarding the American Constitution, the supreme law of the land.
Re-electing Trump on November 5 would be a monumental mistake, one the country cannot afford to make. This is why it is easy to predict that Trump will lose, and lose big, to Kamala Harris.
I rest my case.
Prince Dr Wumi Akintide writes from Oyemekun Terrace New York City
