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#FreeSpeech advocacy group Foundation for Individual Rights & Expression in a stmnt said #JamesComey’s post “is political speech protected by the #FirstAmendment.”

“It neither constitutes a true threat nor merits federal investigation. 86 has a lot of possible meanings, & the idea that spelling it out in seashells & posting it to IG is a true threat is quite a stretch. The admin should drop any investigation of Comey because it’s an unconstitutional waste of time.”

#law#DHS#DOJ

The U.S. Secret Service is just there for looks now? Wtaf.

“Despite assurances from the White House that the TASS correspondent [russian state media] had not been approved, the staffer’s presence in the Oval Office highlights a significant breach of protocol from the White House. As the White House takes control of the pool roster, the TASS staffer’s presence represents a potential security lapse on the White House’s part.”

cnn.com/2025/02/28/media/tass-

CNN · A Russian state media reporter gained entry to the Oval Office for Trump-Zelensky sit-downBy Donald Judd

Milley, Fauci, Pompeo... have been stripped of their #USSS protection, but for Trump & Vance...

The Trump admin’s various suspensions & freezes on fed funding don't apply to presidential security.

The memo, prepared by the GSA, which oversees the fed INFRA, is just one of a number that exempts the protection of Trump & Vance.

It cites a short list of exceptions, beginning with: “Actions to support the Pres., VP & the USSS in ensuring security [AT] ANY DOLLAR.”

#USPol
kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-f

Ken Klippenstein · Trump’s Funding Freeze Does Not Include Presidential ProtectionBy Ken Klippenstein
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#FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate said that while investigators still don’t have a sense of the gunman’s #motive, they have recently discovered a set of online posts believed to have been made by him in 2019 & 2020 that reflect “#antisemitic & anti-#immigration themes” & espoused #PoliticalViolence.

#law #Security #Congress #Senate #hearing #SecretService #USSS #TrumpRally
washingtonpost.com/nation/2024

The Washington Post · Secret Service head says he’s ‘ashamed’ of security failure around TrumpBy Devlin Barrett
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I will say, this is also the #Senate hearing, last week, was the #House. #HouseRepublicans are a clown show who engage far more in #PerformativePolitics than the #Republicans in the Senate.

*edit: exceptions to the statement “being more respectful” & not a clown / engaging in performative politics, w/the added bonus on indulging in #ConspiracyTheories: Sens/tools #RonJohnson, #RickScott, #MikeLee, #JoshHawley, the usual #MAGA bootlickers.

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Related:

Watching #Congress questioning the acting #SecretService dir, Ronald L. Rowe Jr, who is a white #MALE, & the #Republicans are being SOOOOO MUCH MORE RESPECTFUL in questioning him than they were of the former director Kimberly #Cheatle a #WOMAN, whom they spoke over, yelled - even screamed at, & verbally abused. #Democrats are generally the same in their methodology of questioning.

*edit: exceptions below
#USSS #Security #GunControl #GunLaws
bbc.com/news/live/c7280jzy33nt

BBC NewsTrump shooting: Secret Service head 'ashamed' over assassination attemptLawmakers are grilling FBI and Secret Service officials over security failures leading to assassination attempt on Trump.

#SecretService Director #Cheatle resigns in connection w/ #Trump rally shooting

#USSS Dir Kimberly Cheatle resigned Tues in connection w/the assassination attempt on Trump in Pennsylvania, acc/to a copy of a letter sent to agency staff.

“As your Director, I take full responsibility for the #security lapse,” Cheatle wrote. “In light of recent events, it is with a heavy heart that, I have made the difficult decision to step down as your Director.”

washingtonpost.com/nation/2024

The Washington Post · Secret Service Director Cheatle resigns in connection with Trump rally shootingBy Maria Sacchetti

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said that Iran “strongly rejects any involvement in the recent armed attack against Trump,” adding, “This accusation is just insulting: we wouldn’t let the Secret Service see our shooter on the roof a full 20 minutes before they fired. I mean, come on, we’re better at assassinations than that.”

- written by me, see it and more in This Week This Week tonight in LA.

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#Trump in his insecurity, goes for the petulant power play:

No one can leave because he isn’t.

Trump, who loves having everyone's eyes on him, is talking to his lawyers. After a bit, his posse starts to leave.

Prosecutors try to as well, but are stopped by #SecretService.

The power dynamic is whack. Prosecution has the power to ask the judge to hold Trump in contempt & to ask jurors to convict him. But the #USSS has the power to stop prosecutors from leaving if deemed necessary.

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One of the agents opened fire, but no one was struck by the gunfire, the #SecretService said in a statement. The three people were seen fleeing in a red car, & the #USSS said it put out a regional bulletin to Metropolitan Police to be on the lookout for it.

It’s possible it was just a random car break-in.

#SecretService agents protecting President #Joe Biden’s granddaughter opened fire after three people tried to break into an unmarked #USSS vehicle in the nation’s capital.

The agents, assigned to protect #NaomiBiden, were out w/her in the Georgetown neighborhood late Sunday night when they saw the three people breaking a window of the parked & unoccupied SUV, the official said.

apnews.com/article/naomi-biden

AP News · Secret Service agents protecting Biden's granddaughter open fire when 3 people try to break into SUVBy MICHAEL BALSAMO
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@sethcotlar #RayEpps should be investgated, but there may be nothing there.

More consequential; #January6Committee was charged by law with fully investigating the #January6 events and causes, but glibly gave a pass to #FederalistSociety #FBI Dir #ChristopherWray #USSS head #JamesMurray and #Trump Acting Sec Def #ChristopherMiller who did nada before and on #J6.

#MarkMilley said there was concern there'd a be a coup; who did #DonaldTrump think he had support from, and why?

Secret Service knew of #NeoNazi violent plans to occupy the #Capitol:

"(December 29, 2020, email from PIOC-ONDUTY@USSS.DHS.GOV to THREATS@uscp.gov titled “FW: [EXTERNAL EMAIL] -

"Neo-Nazi Calls on D.C. Pro-Trump Protesters to Occupy Federal Building.”)."

Note 385, p. 164, Exec Summary #January6Committee Report january6th.house.gov #SecretService #JamesMurray traitor #USSS #January6 #January6th #January6thCommittee

Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States CapitolSelect Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol