Ted Cruz, GOP Senators claim Trump shooting protection was 'politically motivated' | LiveNOW FOX
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- Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said the acting U.S. Secret Service director may have acknowledged their failure to secure the roof a shooter was able to take fires at former President Trump from on July 13 was indefensible, but afterward continued with the same stonewalling pattern seen in the Biden administration’s agency.
Cruz spoke after a hearing on the attempted assassination of Trump, saying former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle should have been fired after the failed security detail.
“She should have resigned the day of the shooting. She did not. She should have been fired the day of the shooting. She was not,” Cruz said. “Acting director [Ronald Rowe, Jr.] at least acknowledged that their failure to secure the roof from where the shooter fired was indefensible. That being said, he continued the pattern we have seen from the Biden administration of stonewalling in this hearing.”
The senator continued, taking aim at the Biden administration’s Secret Service.
“Apparently, in the Biden Secret Service, the buck stops nowhere. Nobody has responsibility,” Cruz said.
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., told reporters Tuesday that it will take more than throwing additional money at the Secret Service in order to get the resources needed to protect a president.
Marshall spoke to reporters after a hearing on the attempted assassination of former President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13.
“I think we've doubled their budget in the last ten years,” Marshall said of the Secret Service. “They have 8,000 agents protecting 33 people that they need to be able to roll up the people that are sitting and doing nothing in those offices.”
He later said the agents are doing important things and he did not mean to be so “cavalier.”
“Obviously, in this situation, President Trump probably needed 4 or 5 times that,” Marshall said. “I would argue that it would be next to impossible to make that particular site safe for the president. It's going to take more than just throwing money at it.”
Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Barrasso, R-Wyo., led a majority of the Senate in introducing a resolution Tuesday to officially condemn the attempted assassination of former President Trump earlier this month at a rally in Pennsylvania.
If passed in the upper chamber, the resolution would condemn the attempt on Trump's life, honor "the victims who were killed and injured at the rally" and call "for unity and civility in the United States."
The condemnation amassed 64 co-sponsors, notably including both Democratic Pennsylvania Sens. Bob Casey and John Fetterman, whose constituents were victims.
Barrasso plans to request passage of the resolution either through a mechanism known as a "hotline" that allows for objection or by unanimous consent on the Senate floor. It would take one senator's objection to prevent either.
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Take the Secret Service away from Homeland Security already
Where would you assign the SS?
Their own identity.. .homeland security is joke... That was created to spy on all of us....they have too much power.... Less government is what we need... They are all out of control!!
Immediately
Dismantle the CIA,FB lies, SS and homeland defense
They are all secretly controlled by the swamp rats(demons)
@@maxinetisdale2369 They should have never been taken out of the Treasury Department to begin with.
We need for some insiders to come forward and blow the whistle on this BS.
I think they are trying!!
That is the telling point about the nature of the FBI.......and other "FEDERAL" entities.......thousands and thousands of employees and only a hand full of whistle blowers. Go Along to Get Along should be the NATIONAL MOTTO. That's all I've seen from We The People since The Warren Commission Report. BRING BACK THE DRAFT........"Volunteers" will stumble around in a desert for 20+ years accomplishing nothing but a lot of death. The best way to protect yourselves from your military is to have your children in the military.
Not going to happen.
Mayorkas should be fired and prosecuted !😮😮😮
Hes in the cfr hes got oligarchs back
Treason
Won't happen.
Algo huele mal
Don't expect consequences from our tough talk-do nothing republican congressmen.
Absolutely this was a politically motivated and organized! The shooter wasnt alone in this!
Exactly! I think this goes up all the way to the presidency!
Right out of the project 25 playbook.😢
@@ednajohnson6784 what is the project 25 playbook, I haven't heard of it?
Hold them all accountable , PERIOD
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They need to be held accountable it's just out of control now
They tried to make Mr. Trump JFK FIRE THEM ALL
Right on
When this guy would be held accountable
I'd require and request all of them be fired
And take their pensions and indict them or court martial or whatever, they need to be.punished, throw the book at them!
The Military needs to be brought in to protect Pres. Trump and fire/arrest all responsible for this attempted assassination.
Trump is not president , he is a traitor !
Because it was a set-up!
When you see an agent chewing gum, and unable to holster their weapon correctly, confidence goes through the floor and incompetence comes to mind
Well, that is an understatement! She was also not physically fit, and I would hate to put my life in her hands! BTW, I would not be surprised to learn that was the first day a weapon had been on her hip, would you?
Of course, but what do you expect from a TSA desk job pencil pusher?
I wonder if the female ss who couldn’t holster her gun in five tries was the same one yelling “What are we doing? What are we doing? what are we doing?” after President Trump was shot and the agents were throwing their bodies on top of him.
Because they are all involved that’s why they won’t say a damn thing.
A man died that day and we the people want answers!
You aren't going to get any answers because all of the answers are condemning to those responsible for the safety of DJT and the people that day. That's why they stonewall literally every question when meeting during these committees. They were hoping DJT was going to get killed. And he didn't. Now they're scrambling and making BS up along the way.
Screw him, he WAS a BIGOT....WHO CARES . .....😊
Shut up, already. What answers do you need? Didn't you see what everyone else watching TV saw?
Get over it, the Japanese did.
Why eveeybody die except Trump 🤔
Planned incompetence
No account shiftless people too lazy to do their job. They thought nothing was going down in little rural Butler, PA! That is just what the bad guys were counting on!
Planned Incompetence = Treasonous Act!!! 😮😮😮
Starting at the top with the head of secret service director that was appointed and honored by Joe Biden! She gave to order for her team to stand down when it came to protecting Trump’s rallies!
Faux incompetence.
Ronald Rowe was party to the shooting, There is absolutely no reason that building was unmanned, Rowe & Wray has to go...
Was Agent Rowe at the rally? If not, and he is brand new in his position, he may have limited information on what he actually knows personally at this point.. The committee set the meeting and told him to be there, and he went prepared or not.
Don't get me wrong, I am as angry as the most angry person over this disgraceful attempted assassination of President Trump! It is just so inept that we haven't been told anything because they probably don't have their stories coordinated on what to tell the public and we are sitting around with our bare face hanging out while we have been told nothing after seventeen days. We are all as upset and angry as a raging Tasmanian Devil and ready to tear in to anyone who won't give us the truth of why this happened, what are they going to do to those responsible and assure everyone it has been corrected and will never happen again to either party or an Independent!
We are trying to save America, and "they" are trying to take out our Champion Leader, ....which is why they were trying to take him out and away from the job at hand!
WE WANT ANSWERS! WE WANT THE RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE PUNISHED! IS THE PROBLEM CORRECTED FOREVER? HOW CAN WE TRUST THEM TO TELL US THE TRURH? H O W?
God bless TRUMP and keep him safe!
TRUMP/VANCE 2024
Yes he was!! It was all over his face at the hearing, his tone, obvious incompetence (ignorance) . My opinion only
@@patmcafee6004planned Incompetence = Treasonous Act!!! Ask any honest law man; he WILL tell you just that!
I think there was. BlackRock owns the building, and Larry Fink the CEO has promoted and invested heavily in climate change, which is in direct opposition to Trump's policies he wants to bring back if re-elected President. So I believe Fink conspired with the other perpetrators to allow Crooks access to the building.
And Tim Burke
This was more intentional than just a lack of personnel.
It's an inside job. This was an assisted assaination attempt
Even if it wasn’t, they let it happen and didn’t care that it did.
Who has been trying so hard to Keep President Trump from becoming President? We are not dumb. We know who. That is sad that it has come to this.
@@Dr.Popperguy5 Absolutely!!!!!! 0b@m@ Bin Laden!!!! We are sick to de@th of that man’s evil and attacks!
@@Dr.Popperguy5 CZcams keeps removing my comments so I’ll post it again and again….. we KNOW 0b@ma is who planned and paid for this attempt!!!
Well !!!
SS blamed locallaw enforcement several times during questioning. Typical.. .blame game.
Typical CYA by the Federal Government. Liars incorporated.
Yet what's absolute and clear is the locals were the ONLY ones doing their jobs... they meant for the president to have been killed..
They wanted it to happen 100%........ Trump24
Exactly! Trump all the way!
Mayorkas is responsible and they are protecting him
AND he is protecting Garland and he is protecting Biden and he is protecting Obama.......
This isn't going to stop anytime soon. The SS was to sloppy not to be intentional. Keep digging Senator Cruz.
Yes!!!
Protests need to happen.
Get’em Senators.
He's on the way to Mexico again 😂
Treason
A rangefinder for golfing but not carrying a golf bag with clubs in it. What a sham
Ronald Rowe is no different than Cheatle . There are better candidates to be the head of secret service
Are you joking? Rowe is just as bad...if not worse! You need to research this guys background
Same roof . Same birds of a feather flock together . Still on denial and covered up of their politically motivated. Clean up the FBI, DHS, CIA and secret service
He's her underling, and probably more involved in the situation than appears.
@@thebuff7271Who Needs to. We know he's obviously a Democrat.😡
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Heads need to roll, something fishy is going on 🤬
So no laws no charges against those who lie to congress. No laws to keep any of this bs from happening? These people in charge continue todo as they please.
😂😂 how many people from 45's reign are either already doing time or have been prosecuted?? It's hilarious for the right to call ANYONE crooked!!
Look to Captain Alert in the white house, attic.
It's deeply disturbing to me that they continue to do as they please no matter what the PEOPLE SAY. It's suggests talk, talk and more talk. Everyone lies to Congress and no one is ever held accountable.
You're absolutely right, criminals are being allowed to go free to commit more of the same crimes again and again.
That is because the people at the top of the federal government won't press charges, fire, revoke pensions, etc. I don't understand!
Correction. Trump supporters who defy supaenas go to jail. Trump supporters who trespass at the capital get lengthy jail sentences. See a pattern here?
This goes WAY deeper than simply just the work of a single deranged 20-year old.
At first glance, it looked staged. Whether it is or not, appearances mean something !
Of course it does. Democrats are dangerously desperate and will stop at nothing when it comes to President Trump. IMO
Evil and SICK 🤢
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Has been going on for years!
How many do you need? They were told he was on the roof, and still Trumps detail did nothing.
Is the so-called accountability only asking these criminals to resign or fire them?
Unless someone goes to jail, these incidents will happen again because these criminals will just walk away with their fat pensions.
Absolutely!!! Justice needs to be seen here.
And benefits like Chicago and Detroit. All those Fat cats are still getting retirement and benefits, for working for the cities. Now there are not enough taxes coming in, to ever get in the green. They rob Peter to pay Paul.
And go shopping !!
If there is no justice, the people will make sure there is justice. This HAS to stop one way or another. Evil people are in control of our country.
Soooo true! The forgotten men and women need to be fearless and courageous and just do it!
VOTE TRUMP. Can't trust Dems.
Close the border now! This was done by Bidon!!
There is talk of a mandatory ban on all ar's before the election.
Damn straight its Political and everyone involved should be fired and charged...smh
Chuck Schumer on MSBNC saying: “You take on the intelligence community (IC) and they have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you”. Then when asked what did he think the IC would do to Trump taking then on: “I don’t know. But what from what I am told, I know is they (the IC) are very upset about how he (Trump) has treated them and talked about them. Trump is being really dumb to take them on.” Hum. Makes one think about all this.
@@willcox4561This reeks of a three letter agency op.
The motive behind this punk kid's attempt will likely never be discovered.
@@robertblackburn790 I actually think much of the truth will come out albeit slowly. There are too many videos and other info to sweep under the rug. Lots of whistleblowers.
@@robertblackburn790They need to look into who Set Up The OVERSEAS ACCOUNTS !
What 20 yr old has . . .
"Overseas Accounts" ??🤨 🤔 💬 🙄
they waited till the shooter took his shot,.
They answer nothing, but “look into”everything.
When someone has no answers it has to imply guilt!😔
17 days and we still don't have answers on this shooting. we need to make all them be held accountable.
Cruz good 🇺🇸 no excuse for what happened
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WHAT'S STOPPING ARRESTS?
Well why do u ax?
These people aren't capable of guarding a lemonade stand.
No need to "look from top to bottom of the SS" The problem is at the top
The problem goes to the top in D.C.
@maxinetisdale2369 very true, passed down to the top at the 3 letter agencies
These democrats people needs to Be jailed for life
Pray Patriots Pray.. America Needs Jesus God Now 🙏 ❤
Who killed Obama's chef? A great swimmer.
Obama himself! Traitor!
EXACTLY. .and what about Joan Rivers!...and all the other whisle blowers !! Just like all the videos showing how those corrupt people,and Jan 6!! No reason Nancy P. Didn't get Xtra security when TRUMP ASKED FOR IT !!..PROOF OF WHAT HAPPENED ,deleted distrod !! and innocent people are in jail ..and when a person " supposedly hangs " himself.cameras off and both guards asleep 🧐👀🧐👀🧐👀🧐👀🧐...wake up !!!
Obama
Big Mike
Exactly the Same person who tried to assassinate Trump
Second speaker is a true patriot to even ask this question we are ALL WONDERING N DYING TO ASK CONFIDENTLY. Reality is the odds are far greater that it was planned. Not only simply allowed by lack of security. It was conspired.
Republican leaders need to come together and drain the swamp.
Republicans own the swamp, the Democrats just live there. The only "good guys" in Washington are the ones that both sides hate.
Republicans are the swamp thanks to trump.
they are the swamp themselves, what are you talking about
projection😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
If they drain the swamp there won't be anyone from the right remaining
You don't have to be frigging Sherlock Holmes to figure out what happened.
I said Trump better have his own security protection because I honestly think these people want Trump gone. ANYWAY, they can.
Heaven forbid we have a President that keeps his promises and wants to put America first!
Totally agree with you all! I don’t trust SS, FBI, CIA etc!
All of these questions are so obvious and denied, why are there not ANY democrats agreeing?? So disgustingly dishonorable
There are some Dems, not as many as there should be, who realize this could happen to them and they are in agreement with us Republicans!
SHe should get NO PENSION! and be prosecuted!
It all SMELLS!
The government sniper has stated publicly that he was told to stand down. Where is he?
WHAT??
That was a hoax and has been debunked. The supposed sniper who said that gave his name, it was checked on and there was no one employed by that name.i read that in a couple of different places. If people would stop putting out lies it would help get to the truth so much quicker!
@@maxinetisdale2369 And the picture that was attached to it wasn't even of the sniper who took the shot. It was the other team.
@@jeffreygunn3530
Yes, it's disgusting! The whole thing from stem to stern!
Dont take a rocket scientist
Or a bridge builder 😂
*Doesn't
Fix The Hurricane Flooding in Houston, and feed the Homeless people on Austin 6th st. U Tard!
Why aren't these agencies being shut down?
He knows the answer , he just will not tell you , i think it all was set up
Alejandro Mayorkas should not be paid at all... let him leave by not receiving his direct deposit checks.
Criminals deserve NO protection!
They will not do anything about this. A strongly worded letter is the best we will get
Which they would immediately use for toilet paper!
Their plan failed
Again
Bigly!
@@RaymondYocum-uw5hd everything possible has been done to Trump to keep him out of running for president. First of all I wouldn't be able to handle all the accusations, trials, threats, now attempt assignation. He really can't be held down. I don't think it's consequences that keep him going. I would certainly have given up. It now makes me wonder if the voting wasn't rigged. And yet this man is still standing.
GOD
@@vickiecampbell3638sadly
The usss say they need more money 💰 and resources to do a better job , but what about commonsense that's free 🤔, draine the swamp!!!!@!
Won't he just Answering the Freaking questions of The simple "Yes or No "!
NO, HE-L NO!
I believe Ted Cruz is 💯% correct.
Why didn’t the guy who saw him not pull his gun and fire it? That would have stopped everything bc right then and there.
And he would be dead, I imagine.....
@@maxinetisdale2369 who the cop? If he fired his gun in the air?
Nobody could've been this incompetent. They left the back door open.
Fire the upper officials and the ones that left their post, cut their freakin’ funds!
Well, duh, we already knew that. We want to know who is responsible for it and who brings them to trial. We also want to know what is being done to prevent another attempt.
Why are they letting them get away with withholding information?
Also, I'm really tired of the sloped roof BS. It's the new "grassy knoll".
Yes, why haven't Trump's medical treatment records been released? Did you know that Pennsylvania has open carry laws? You support open carry, don't you?
@@mw8498 Open carry doesn’t allow you to open carry anywhere you want like stroll into a political rally where a top level candidate for president of the US is speaking. And that concept holds for both Harris and Trump and RFK Jr. Only a total idiot would think otherwise. Oh, and perhaps you might do some minimal study and educate yourself on HIPPA, PHI, and PII.
@@mw8498the Doctor did release his medical treatment.
@Katndhat Ronnie "Johnson" Jackson was not the attending physcian from the hospital. He is a Congressmen no longer licensed to practice medicine.
That's what I want to know?
Is it possible that Keystone Kops are disguised as a secret service???….
At the pay scale I certainly hope not!
Roe shouldn’t have been PROMOTED!
He was in CHARGE OF DAY-TO-DAY SS OPERATIONS. HE SHOULDN’T BE IN CHARGE NOW!!!!!
Trump made a serious mistake by making Wray director when he fired James Comey! Wray is as rotten as Comey and I knew Wray would never work with Trump! He probably leaked all he knew to the Dems! Terrible decision!
In my humble opinion.
We don't need studies. We need action fire Alejandro mayorkers. For incompetence
Fire him, take his pension, arrest, indict, convict and throw the book at Mayorkas, he is a criminal who hates America!
Fire all upper brass of SS...
Mayorcas underlings....
Did you know Pennsylvania has open carry laws? You support open carry, don't you?
Put them in JAIL.😡
Vote for trump he will fired them if he win trump the election
Mayorkas hates America in my opinion! 😡🤬
@@CarlosRadillo-bl1ex
You can take that to the bank!
Nothing is hidden from God. Be ready for Judgment from our Creator.
Again this unfortunately looks like a hired hit !! I’ll say troops abandoned their post. ? This really looks like a intentional hit ! Planned!
Planned by 45 for publicity and distraction
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Oh it is.
Agree!
Yes it is
The guy that was in control at the command center that day, the one that created the problem. Now he is running the Secret Service.
Spot on Snr Crux!! Go for the jugular cos they're lying - it was a deliberate stand down
Negligence plain and simple. They let down there gaurd because they didnt like Trumps politics. Thats just wrong no matter which side you are on. Like wtf are we talking about here?
I guarantee you the SS shooter was told to stand down.
This is your OPINION! Not fact.
@@janetjennings7324wow! Great observation! 👏 👏 👏
I read that and then read it was debunked.....
@@maxinetisdale2369 I’m sure it was debunked. Probably by those that investigate themselves!
@@maxinetisdale2369yeah. Who's debunking who?
INTENTIONAL
Good for you Senator! Truth is coming out soon. You guys will find it!👏👏🙏
Heads are going to roll I hope!
Start with trump's
Trump didn't do anything wrong! Trial was a witch hunt! Judge gave $$$$ to Biden campaign.judges daughter profited by 93 MILLION DOLLARS and hired OBIDEN and HARRIS for political consultants!!
Secret... should all be fired. And some jailed.
Something seems fishy.Something was fishy in 2020 to
By fishy, do you mean a dirty diaper?Or smelly orange makeup
Do you mean like a smelly Diaper, or orange makeup😂
Election was rigged in 2020. I had proof millions others did as well !!!..and there US NOTHING FUNNY ABOUT THIS !! SICK EVIL 🤢🤮😈
You are right, police saw the perp on the roof well before the shooting. Like the police in Uvalde, TX they did nothing until it was too late.
@@len8336 or could it be he means the counting of fake ballots that went on for days after the election - yeah beyond fishy. downright evil
💯 ⁉️Why isn't she in jail for attempted
murder ⁉️
Deeeeeeeeeeep state
Shiva4President
Wtf??????
Very DEEEEEEP state, Kabal, unnamed, unelected "officials" imbedded in government.
Why did an ESU Team leave their assigned area (the window overlooking the roof) to join others looking for a suspicious person? Shouldn't they have remained in their assigned area as protection for President Trump? They would have EASILY seen the shooter on the roof.
Who ordered the Secret Service snipers to change locations a few hours before the shooting? Instead of clear vision, one had a tree to look through.
What about the photo of the supposed shooter crawling along a ledge taken from the building?
Who was the shooter in contact with, at home and work at the nursing home, whose 2 phones have been geolocated as next to the FBI building? Now these phones are dark.
Why make ROWE as Acting Director when HE was the one denying additional resources for President Trump?
When members of Congress just traveled to Butler PA, different people approached them with information. HOWEVER for fear of losing their jobs, and possibly their lives, requested these Congressmen return for quiet anonymous mtgs. If asked to appear before Congress, would claim the 5th. Every person who approached them, had the almost the same details not provided by anyone else.
How can a house adjacent to the field with easy access not have a law enforcement officer there? The only security was a ZIP TIE on the gate.
Why is Congress running 2 different lines of questions?
1. Republicans asking how this could happen and how to prevent future attacks.
2. Democrats attacking the 2d Amendment, getting rid of guns and blaming President Trump and his supporters for THEIR vitriolic rhetoric.
We need a completely INDEPENDENT PANEL. Only input from the government is truthful answers. Then let the heads roll.
May our LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS BE WITH US ALL AT A TIME SUCH AS THIS!!!!!!!
Because they wanted him dead
If I had gotten called before Congress to answer questions I would have come prepared to answer questions but instead it seems like they deliberately don't prepare
They prepared, how not to answer and how try to fool the Senate!
Ted Cruz
We people like in this nation
Also Senator Hawley…..
@@mitymightyquinnnn630 Cruz and Hawley True Senators for Country and Citizens.
2 shooters, 2 shooters, 2 shooters at President Donald J Trump on 7-13.... 2 different Shooters.. there's still another Out There
The answer to all your questions are simple, the failures were by design !!
Yup! And now they're caught!
Every president in the whole world should be protected always
Our leader of each country everybody should be protected that are in big positions like that or this s***'s going to keep continuing
LOCAL COPS SAID // NO CONTACT // IS THE ANSWER TO MOST OF THEM // USSS POINT MAN IS PLACE TO START !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wish everyone would fight as ted does , at the hearings, good job💪
Justus for corey
Justus? I would bet money you never won a spelling bee
So many “points of failure” that coincidence has to be discarded as an explanation? Does this “sound” more like a well planned military like operation with excellent intel centered around a 20 year old, “lone gunman”?
SPEAK THE TRUTH SENATOR CRUZ!!! DONT LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THIS!! MURDER, ATTEMPTED MURDER AND INNOCENT VICTIMS!!! CHARGE THEM ALL WITH THESE!!!
He's never spoken the truth yet. Why start now?
It's all true ..and what a evil comment! U don't give a damn about a American patriot HERO BEING KILLED!!!! ..sick
Secret Service says, "We are looking into if it was daytime, it has only been 17 days so there needs to be time for a complete investigation to see if 6:00pm in July in the Northern Hemisphere is considered 'daytime'." " Hahahaha, we're so smart & all these other people are SOOO stupid, they will believe ANYTHING we say. what can THEY do...Hahaha." This is what is happening right in front of our eyes and our Representatives are helpless to do ANYTHING to stop this......NOT. Our Representatives Choose not to do anything!!!
THOSE PEOPLE ARE TRULY WICKED WITH NO MORALS OR TRUTH ABOUT THEM.
This is BAD, VERY BAD!!!
SS took the first three shots from the second floor window behind Crooks
21:26 Cruz gives the responsible individuals at the Secret Service more...consideration...than I would.
Plz keep on pressing for answers. Don’t let them think we will forget. It’s everyone in the political light that stands to suffer. EVERYONE. The opponent doesn’t want
The Republican Senators and House members are in a rage and are vowing no more!
We need to start at the bottom, find out who each agent answers to, and repeat until the problem is identified.
They need to be fired or Resign
Vote for trump ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊
What about the police officer just firing a few rounds off to get attention?
Fire everybody
Fire and held accountable
Throw them all in jail so we won't have any assassinations or attempts to!
Why wasn't anyone assigned to the water tower? It was the highest point and they could have seen everything. Intentionally left unmanned? I think so.