Dan Bongino has slammed the U.S. Secret Service over the federal agency’s “apocalyptic security failure” that led to the assassination attempt against President Donald Trump last month.
Bongino, a former Secret Service agent who was assigned to then-President Barack Obama’s detail, blasted the agency’s failures as “disgusting!”
He blasted the Secret Service while taking part in a panel discussion about the assassination attempt, hosted by The Heritage Foundation.
Bongino spoke alongside several Republican congressmen, including Reps.:
- Eli Crane (R-AZ)
- Chip Roy (R-TX)
- Matt Gaetz (R-FL)
- Andy Biggs (R-AZ)
- Cory Mills (R-FL)
Bongino argued that Trump’s would-be assassin, Thomas Crooks, was able to come as close as he did to succeed in killing the 45th president because he “outsmarted” the Secret Service.
“Listen, let’s just get right to the point: this was an apocalyptic security failure,” Bongino began.
“A man was murdered in front of his family, three people were shot on live television, including President Trump in the head — who came within two millimeters of having his head explode on national television in front of millions of people.
“There’s no sugar-coating it, it’s no time for B.S.”
Bongino noted that the corporate media had appeared to quickly lose interest in the story even though the security failures that day could have much broader implications in the future.
He continued by asserting that it was not his intent to disparage the men and women who served in the U.S. Secret Service every day, putting their lives on the line.
He argued that the real problems with the federal agency were institutional.
“They have a technology problem,” he explained.
Bongino said that a long-running joke about the Secret Service was that the agency “relies on the technology of yesterday, tomorrow.”
The Secret Service’s aim to “do more with less” had also failed, he argued.
“A 20-year-old criminal outsmarted them on a $40 drone,” Bongino noted.
“You’re telling me that’s ‘more with less’?
“That’s disgusting!” he blasted.
“That’s nothing with less.”
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