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?