The Bongino Brief - What Is Going On With The Secret Service?

This episode delves into recent concerning events regarding the Secret Service and their protection details, especially around high-profile figures like former President Donald Trump.

1. Significant security lapses occurred during a recent event attended by Donald Trump, highlighting potential vulnerabilities.
2. The Secret Service might be employing insufficient standards for agent readiness, especially regarding physical requirements and specific training.
3. Bongino criticizes the Secret Service management for not being adequately prepared for modern threats, including drones.
4. A critical intervention by a Secret Service counter-sniper possibly prevented a disastrous outcome at the Trump rally.
5. The episode calls for an overhaul in the Secret Service's approach to high-profile security details.

1: Overview of Secret Service Challenges

An introduction to the episode's theme, focusing on recent security lapses and structural issues within the Secret Service. Dan Bongino: "The most threatened man on earth had a cadre of three Secret Service post standards."

2: Detailed Incident Analysis

Analysis of a specific incident where former President Trump's security was compromised. Discusses the roles and actions of Secret Service personnel during the event. Dan Bongino: "If they missed, it's likely President Trump would be dead right now."

3: Critique of Security Protocols

Bongino critiques the Secret Service's current protocols and training standards, especially regarding the physical readiness of agents. Dan Bongino: "How the hell are you going to be a human shield at five foot two?"

4: Call for Reform

A passionate call for reform within the Secret Service, emphasizing the need for improved training and standards. Dan Bongino: "Cut the bullshit and stop the DEI crap."

1. Stay Informed on Security Practices: Regularly update your knowledge of security measures and practices.
2. Advocate for Rigorous Training Standards: Support policies that enforce stringent physical and tactical training for security personnel.
3. Recognize the Importance of Preparedness: Understand the critical nature of being prepared for all possible security scenarios.
4. Support Transparency in Security Operations: Advocate for open disclosures about security protocols to ensure accountability.
5. Emphasize the Need for Equal Standards: Push for uniform physical fitness standards across all security personnel, regardless of gender.

Most of Donald Trump's security detail working the event last Saturday weren't even Secret Service.

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Dan Bongino
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Dan Bongino
This we have been the home for breaking news and everything we've told you come out. Has come out. Josh Hawley, Senator from Missouri whistleblowers tell me most of Trump's security detail worked in the event last Saturday. We're not even Secret Service.

Totally 100% correct.

There were three Secret Service post standards. Now keep in mind, that does not include special operations, the cat team, the counter assault team, the CS team and the working shift around him. The post standards. You need to be familiar with the terminology.

There is a shift. The shift travels with the president of the protectee everywhere. I'm not going to say how many guys, that's what we would call, like, the bubble around him. Wherever he goes, they go. He gets on a helicopter. Some of them get on the helicopter, he lands, they land with him and get off the plane. The post standards are at a site in advance of the president. President Trump arriving and they are standing post. It's very simple. The post standards are probably the largest security contingent. There were only three Secret Service post standards. The rest, upwards of 20, were from HSI Homeland Security investigations.

I'm sure they're good folks. They have very special set of skills. They do not go through specific secret Service training. It's not a knock, it's just a fact.

I told you that a week ago on the Monday or Tuesday show. This is a travesty.

The most threatened man on earth had a cadre of three Secret Service post standards while Doctor jill up at an event in what the, in Pennsylvania, had upwards of, what, ten to twelve.

How do you explain that?

And by the way, in case you think the Secret Service has gotten there, the management at least took its head out of its ass. Here's what they're appalled about. Not that President Trump's head almost exploded like a watermelon on tv from a two, two, three round. They're appalled by DEi rhetoric against female agents after Trump rally shooting. Folks, this is not against female agents. It's against female agents who were physically unprepared to protect the president.

Folks, Donald Trump is over 6ft tall. How the hell are you going to be a human shield at five foot two? Can you explain that? Five foot two, 6ft tall. Five foot two, 6ft tall. And let me ask you a pretty simple question, by the way, all this, all this stuff is in this book again. Get it from the library, steal it from your friend, don't steal from your friend. Borrowing. I don't give a shit. I don't want anybody's money. Look at all the, the chapters. This book, the special agent mass, the evolving threats from the big six, the threat of a tactical assault on the president, the threat of a medical emergency. Oh, look at this. Chapter seven. Chapter seven in protecting the president. Holy shit. You know what it says, Justin? Page 75, the growing threat to the president from the skies.

Crazy.

Maybe if they would have listened to me and cut the bullshit and stopped the DEI crab, maybe wouldn't have this problem. Explain to me also, which I also go into in this treatise on how to fix this mess. Why are there two sets of physical fitness standards for men and for women? President Trump is the same height and weight. He is a big guy, he's six foot plus, he's a stocky guy.

He is not. He doesn't get lighter when female agents show up. So why are there different pt standards? Please explain that to me without sounding like a total asshole.

Oh, look, December of 2013, a washingtonian article. What it's like protecting the president. Former secret Service agent Dan Bongino tells.

Dan Bongino
Us tale and we've been talking about this for tablecare.

Sorry people, nobody wants to listen to us. All the media wants to do is bullshit, people, all the time.

Dan Bongino
Folks, here's a Fox report.

Dan Bongino
There is one thing about this. This is interesting here, the difficulty of the CS shot.

When I say CS, I'm talking about countersniper. A secret Service counter sniper team took out the shooter.

Dan Bongino
Now, he shouldn't have had to take.

Dan Bongino
Out the shooter at all, period.

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Okay?

That guy should not have been on the roof.

However, I want you to understand that this was a really difficult shot. And that matters.

That matters because if this guy missed the local CS guy, they did not hit him. They engaged the Secret Service guy, took him out with one shot.

If they missed, it's likely President Trump would be dead right now because the shooter had more rounds left and likely would have taken out those secret Service agents around him. And Donald Trump, who was taller than most of the agents who were trying to get him off the stage.

This Cs guy, sadly, had to save the day. Again. They shouldn't have been up on the roof in the first place. I'm not absolving anyone of any responsibility, but this report, I, again, I told you this last week before this aired. The shot was extremely difficult.

And thank God they mitigated that threat. Here's a Fox reporter now with an animation. Check this out.

Fox Reporter
Hi, Eric. Good afternoon. A source familiar with the investigation tells me that, look, it took a single shot to kill the would be assassin Thomas Crooks. And that shot came from a Secret Service counter sniper that the source says it was. He described the shot as a one in a million type of shot. This is the countersniper could only see the top of the scope, his eye and forehead, because the lip of the AGR building that crooks was on was obscuring that view. We're also told a local police sniper took a single shot as well, but missed. Remember, this building was about 150 yards away from where the former president was standing on that stage, and it had a clear line of sight to the former president. Federal law enforcement sources tell Fox. Now, while crooks snuck up on that roof, a butler township emergency services unit sniper team was looking out of the windows of that same building, watching for any suspicious activity. So how did Crooks get on that roof? Federal law enforcement sources tell Fox that it was initially thought he brought a ladder. However, no ladder was found on site. And we're now told the more likely scenario is that Crooks hid his father's AR 15 near an AC unithood and then he climbed onto that AC unit to get up onto the roof of the AGR building. This, as the Wall Street Journal is now reporting, the shooter was able to fly a drone above the rally site earlier that day. The predetermined flight path, the Journal reports, indicates that he flew the drone more than once to scope out the site.

A federal law enforcement source tells Fox the Secret Service was not flying a drone over the rally that day. Senator Josh Hawley says multiple whistleblowers with direct knowledge have come forward saying the rally was being treated as a loose security event.

Dan Bongino
Three takeaways from that Fox clip.

Dan Bongino
These are facts we now know.

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I told you, the local sniper, that's.

Dan Bongino
The third shooter there. You're seeing it from the fox clip.

Dan Bongino
They missed the Secret Service agent, a.

Dan Bongino
Secret Service uniformed division officer. That's this counter sniper unit. There were no agents in there. I want to be clear. They're uniformed division officers, a separate division of the Secret Service.

Dan Bongino
It was a miraculous shot, and thank God he hit him. Or I'm telling you, President Trump would be dead right now because the shooter would have continued to engage.

Third, they bring up the fact that there was no ladder. The ladder you're seeing in the pictures was put there afterwards.

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Next point.

Dan Bongino
The shooter did pre op surveillance with a freaking drone and the secret Service had no eyes in the skydehe. Are you shitting me? What is this romper room?

What, are you kidding me? This Sesame street bullshit.

I have another question right now.

Dan Bongino
Members of Congress, are you listening?

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Staffers, get ready. Take notes.

Dan Bongino
Get your pens out.

Dan Bongino
Where was the counter surveillance unit vulnerability assessment?

It's a document. It'll be emailed, probably printed copies as well.

There are units in the secret service counter surveillance units that counter surveillance, just like you have a counter sniper unit designed to take out snipers. There are specific people out there, I'm not going to mention numbers or anything else, who are out there to detect people surveilling the site.

We now know the guy was out there an hour in advance. Where's the vulnerability assessment? The c. The CSU counter surveillance unitheen vulnerability assessment should have documented that rooftop as a vulnerability point.

Is anyone in Congress going to ask for that?

I want four pieces of paperwork now. I want the site post assignment log.

I want the counter sniper survey, I want the counter assault team survey, the Sod survey, special operations division, and I also want the CSU vulnerability assessment. You're going to see in every one of those documents. Somehow that high point was addressed, but never addressed. I guarantee you people picked it out as a vulnerability, but they did nothing about it. Nobody posted it, and they effectively left an open vehicle for President Trump to get shot.

I want you to watch a minute of this animation. If you're listening on Apple or Spotify, welcome. It's always good to have you here. Please watch this on rumble at about.

Dan Bongino
The 45 minutes mark.

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This is an animation.

Dan Bongino
I think it's from a, at the typical liberal or something like, is it?

Dan Bongino
Yeah, but this is a really kick ass animation. It goes on for about three minutes. But I'm not going to play the whole thing. I'm going to play the core part about a minute to show you how many things were missed and how close we came to losing President Trump on the stage. This thing went viral. Check this out.

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This is the area we're going to focus in on here. You can see the three victims that were injured by gunfire and where they were standing in the bleachers.

We're going to turn around and demonstrate exactly where these bullets came from.

This model represents Thomas Crooks. His position can be seen here in this image, which illustrates exactly where he was turning around. We can see the path of all the bullets that were fired from this location. I placed a ten foot red disk downrange to represent what an average shooter could hit easily.

Now, let's take a look at this first shot fired coming from our key location. Bullet one grazes President Trump's ear. This is the same bullet that hits a spectator in the stands. We know this through video evidence.

As President Trump is talking, the first shot rings out just after he says, take a look at what happened.

Dan Bongino
Take a look what happened.

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We can see the vapor trail of a bullet strike, which is the same bull that struck President Trump's ear a split second earlier. And this video is this location here.

Back at the podium, President Trump is shot and grabbed his ear, falling to the ground as more shots rang out.

In total, there were seven or eight shots. So let's rewind and watch this at regular speed.

Dan Bongino
Take a look at what happened.

Dan Bongino
That animation is horrifying, folks. The Secret Service director must resign today.

The secret service director. I want you to listen to me, please. All the people that clip my videos and send them around x. I appreciate everything you do for our content. You know who you are. Thank you very much.

The Secret service director is going to get someone else hurt.

Dan Bongino
She is clearly incompetent.

Dan Bongino
She does not have the skillset to lead a complicated agency. Protection is getting very difficult in the area of drone technology protective methodology. It is getting very difficult.

Dan Bongino
If they had a manpower problem, they.

Dan Bongino
Should have spoken out in advance. This is really, really bad.

Dan Bongino
I am deathly afraid that Donald Trump or any other protective Joe Biden or anyone else, we don't let our people get killed here. This isn't the third world.

Someone is going to get hurt.

I don't know any other way to say this. This woman is absolutely incompetent. She has no skill set to run this agency whatsoever.

Dan Bongino
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