What makes Donald Trump’s assassination incredulous? It is the blatant incompetence showcased by the people tasked to protect the former president, the lack of communication among law enforcement officials, and the lax security in a highly precarious environment.
The information does not stop with the Secret Service failing to act when the sniper started bear crawling on the roof, where counter snipers could reach him.
Members of the local SWAT team sat down with ABC News senior investigative correspondent Aaron Katersky, where they revealed that Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania rally was not only disastrous but its planning and coordination were a recipe for catastrophe.
The SWAT team told Katersky that the Secret Service did not reach out to them before the assassination attempt on Trump.
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“They told us they had no communication with the Secret Service until after the gunfire started. This SWAT team saw the shooter. They recognized him as suspicious, even took pictures of him,” Katersky said in his report.
“None of the concerns, though, had a chance of reaching decision-makers before Trump took the stage because of what these men and women described as failures of planning and communication,” he added.
The lead sharpshooter of the team in Beaver County, Jason Woods, lamented “We were supposed to get a face-to-face briefing with the Secret Service snipers whenever they arrived, and that never happened.”
“So I think that that was probably a pivotal point where I started thinking things were wrong because that never happened and we had no communication with the Secret Service,” he added.
Katersky clarified, “You had no communication with the Secret Service at all on that Saturday?”
Woods answered, “Not until after the shooting.”
However, this was “too late,” Woods remarked.
This utter failure of coordination and negligence led to the death of Corey Comperatore, a rally attendee and former chief firefighter in Butler, and two others severely wounded.
Meanwhile, the local SWAT team asserted that it was Gregory Nicol, Beaver County SWAT sniper, who first noticed and alerted authorities of Thomas Matthew Crooks skulking around the site.
Nicol said he saw Crooks “looking up and down the building…it just seemed out of place.”
He also noticed a bike and a backpack, and Crooks, looking around, pulled a “rangefinder from his pocket.”
The sniper snapped photos of the would-be gunman of Trump and shared them with his team, who then forwarded the information to the command group.
This interview is the latest pushback from the local authorities in Butler, Pennsylvania, whom the Secret Service blames for the security failure at Trump’s rally.
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