Biden’s Quandary Following the Assassination Attempt on Trump

By the grace of God, former President Donald Trump turned his head and the assassins shot sliced into his ear instead of piecing his skull.

It is without question that Trump's secret service detail was negligent in not securing the only nearby buildings 130 yards away from the venue. Numerous Trump supporters notified police of the shooter’s nest ahead of the shots and no immediate action was taken to eliminate the threat. This incident raises questions on President Joe Biden's appointment of Kimberly Cheatle as the Director of the U.S. Secret Service. She is responsible for successfully executing the agency’s integrated mission of protecting key politicians and their families from harm. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Cheatle served as Senior Director in Global Security at PepsiCo, where she was responsible for directing and implementing security protocols for the company's facilities in North America. Risk management experience is hardly the qualification required to thwart assassins.

Biden's choice to lead the Secret Service is as much a failure as Cheatle's leadership to ensure the protection of Trump during the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. She has been more concerned about the hiring and screening process for this agency, specifically overlooking the best agents and lowering the strict standards for her diversity, equity and inclusion effort.

Following the assassination attempt, Biden addressed the nation with a short message stating there is no place in America for this violence. He added that we have to unite and not allow this to happen in America. Let's be very clear, we have heard Biden, VP Kamala Harris, and cohorts in the news media time and time again state that Trump is a threat to democracy, he will be a dictator if elected, and the man is an existential threat to America. Some have even gone to the extreme in labelling Trump as Hitler. Is it any surprise that a lone wolf shooter has seized onto these narratives as his marching orders to save the country?

The turn of events now gives Trump more cards in his hand with the convicted felon narrative overplayed and the disarray in the Democrat Party over Biden’s cognitive ability to lead. He may just decide to tamp the tone down in a gentler approach to unify the country and widen the tent to attract centrist independent voters now coming to terms on who is best to lead the America. However, let’s be clear that the cry by the media and Biden to tamp down on the rhetoric cannot be misconstrued when demonstrating anger over the failure to protect Trump and from refraining to find out the truth and facts behind this assassination attempt.

By the grace of God, former President Donald Trump turned his head and the assassins shot sliced into his ear instead of piecing his skull. We could very well be planning a state funeral and a country changed forever if Trump is not the GOP candidate and not elected to lead in a world that is roiled in crisis over the last four years. There is a lot to cover here.

It is without question that Trump's secret service detail was negligent in not securing the only nearby buildings 130 yards away from the venue. Numerous Trump supporters notified police of the shooter’s nest ahead of the shots and no immediate action was taken to eliminate the threat. This incident raises questions on President Joe Biden's appointment of Kimberly Cheatle as the Director of the U.S. Secret Service. She is responsible for successfully executing the agency’s integrated mission of protecting key politicians and their families from harm. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Cheatle served as Senior Director in Global Security at PepsiCo, where she was responsible for directing and implementing security protocols for the company's facilities in North America. Risk management experience is hardly the qualification required to thwart assassins.

Biden's choice to lead the Secret Service is as much a failure as Cheatle's leadership to ensure the protection of Trump during the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. She has been more concerned about the hiring and screening process for this agency, specifically overlooking the best agents and lowering the strict standards for her diversity, equity and inclusion effort. It is one thing to ruin a company by hiring inept employees, but to make DEI nonsense part of the cultural structure in an agency responsible for protecting and killing is off the wall. Perhaps controversial to say, but witnessing the women in action around Trump after he was shot is of great concern when there was difficulty holstering a side arm and more or less becoming bystanders. We need the best and most physically and mentally Seal Team-like qualified to serve and protect presidents.

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The perimeter was not secured with a direct elevated line of fire to the president left unchecked. This is a failure of execution. Some Democrats in congress, following Trump’s recent bogus conviction, have recently called for stripping Trump of his Secret Service detachment. If they were successful, Trump would likely have been eliminated. Cheatle needs to resign immediately.

Following the assassination attempt, Biden addressed the nation with a short message stating there is no place in America for this violence. He added that we have to unite and not allow this to happen in America. Let's be very clear, we have heard Biden, VP Kamala Harris, and cohorts in the news media time and time again state that Trump is a threat to democracy, he will be a dictator if elected, and the man is an existential threat to America. Some have even gone to the extreme in labelling Trump as Hitler. Is it any surprise that a lone wolf shooter has seized onto these narratives as his marching orders to save the country?

We have two presidents to compare their track records on whether Trump is a dictator during his term and a greater threat to America than another term under a mentally declining Biden. The list is long but let's just remind everyone that no major wars broke out under Trump's administration where his leadership kept the world a safer place by wielding a big stick whereas all hell broke out once Biden came to power with Iran leading the worst terrorist attack since 911 by its proxies on Israel that has resulted in thousands of lives lost in an effort to eliminate Hamas. Then we have Biden's expansionist NATO policy into Ukraine threatening Russia that resulted in a terrible conflict where Ukrainians are being fed into the meat grinder in a war that NATO cannot win. Biden's strategic decision has only pushed China, Iran, North Korea, and India into an alliance where the world is at its most dangerous moment for nuclear war. Who is the greatest existential threat to America and the world?

This assassination attempt on Trump is only the latest attempt to remove him from leading America in 2025. Question the intentions behind the American funding of Ukraine, raise objections over the unconstitutional changes to electoral process across several states attempting to keep Trump off the 2024 ballot, or balk at the allegations and legal proceedings against Trump; and be prepared to be squashed in the media, called a friend of Putin, or worst, risk a raid by the FBI and locked up in the hellacious top-security prison alongside the January 6 defendants.

The political arena has always been vicious in America, however, the volume of in-your-face do whatever it takes, as long as the end is justified by any means, has become the norm for the Democrats effort to stop Trump. Following the failure of numerous legal warfare fronts to prosecute Trump for alleged election interference, classified documents violations, probes into the family business, and civil lawsuits, and it has all come down to attempts to kill Trump to ensure there is no way he can rise again.

Biden is now in a quandary on the same level to his cognitive ability to lead the country. How can he possibly continue with his only campaign slogan that Trump poses an existential threat to democracy and possibly encourage another shooter to save the day or run on his dismal record on open borders, the economy, crime, and a world in chaos. A bloodied Trump's wherewithal to rise up after taking a bullet to raise his fist and tell America to fight, fight, fight under the American flag demonstrates steadfast leadership to put the country ahead of his own life.

On another note, it would be remiss not to bring up Biden’s DOJ continuing to refuse secret service protection for independent candidate for president, Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy knows all to well the threat to himself with his father and uncle both being assassinated. Providing Kennedy with secret service protection raises his stature to a viable third-party candidate and perhaps a thorn in the side of Biden when the ballots are counted. Give Kennedy the protection now before it’s too late.

The turn of events now gives Trump more cards in his hand with the convicted felon narrative overplayed and the disarray in the Democrat Party over Biden’s cognitive ability to lead. He may just decide to tamp the tone down in a gentler approach to unify the country and widen the tent to attract centrist independent voters now coming to terms on who is best to lead the America. However, let’s be clear that the cry by the media and Biden to tamp down on the rhetoric cannot be misconstrued when demonstrating anger over the failure to protect Trump and from refraining to find out the truth and facts behind this assassination attempt.