The Secret Service and guns in the crowd

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1550278320641933312.html

One of the astounding things to come out of these hearings is the fact that the Secret Service and other law enforcement confirmed sightings of people with guns at the rally near the WH, and didn't immediately lock everything down.

I mean, that's NUTS. Normally even a single person spotted with a weapon anywhere near a presidential event would result in a VERY aggressive security response.

The Secret Service has a very heavy duty Counter Assault Team that exists precisely to respond to this sort of this thing. And yet it was treated as no big deal.

Anyway, it makes no sense. It's obvious the Secret Service was concerned about Trump's safety (they wouldn't let him go to the Capitol), so why did they have such a tepid response to the gunmen spotted at the rally?

They normally would have hustled him quickly (the hell) away from there while neutralizing the people with the weapons.

And Trump's claim that "they're not here to hurt ME" doesn't explain it. They didn't know that, and one of those people might well have been there to hurt him.
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This has bothered me.
Incompetence or complicity?

[Srkdqltr]

1. They knew.. complicity.

[Sneederbunk]

2. TFG needed to make that speech or the whole thing would have fallen apart early.

[mopinko]

3. absolute complicity. those msgs are autocopied to the archives from every wh device.

for them to even look like they are lost, that had to be disabled ahead.of.time.
the 4th at least.

complicit to the center of the planet.

[RockRaven]

4. Those calling the shots in the SS must have also wanted those armed people in the mob,

for some purpose, a purpose that they must have also wanted or at least tolerated. TFG directing those people to the Capitol, after insisting the armed people weren't there to hurt him, makes it clear what that purpose was.

[scipan]

5. He was behind a bulletproof? plastic shield.

Maybe they thought that was enough.

Still, it does seem weird.

[allegorical oracle]

6. Having lived in DC, it was/is illegal to have firearms unless you have special permission. Wondered

why the bold-as-brass guys in the trees, at least, weren't rounded up and immediately arrested by the Metro police.

[crickets]

7. +1

[AntiFascist]

8. The Secret Service is also supposed to protect the Vice President...

this could explain why texts are eliminated that may show disagreement within the ranks.