Open Letter to the Director of the Secret Service

We demand answers

Dear Director Cheatle:

Why did the Secret Service allow someone to shoot President Trump in the face with a rifle?

I am aware that question sounds crazy and conspiratorial. That said, I am beginning to consider explanations that include both conspiracy and intentionally turning a blind eye to the danger… as mere incompetence doesn’t begin to explain the facts that we are now confronted with regarding the shooting of Donald Trump.

The simple fact is the Secret Service allowed Donald Trump to be shot. I don’t mean that hyperbolically. You and your Secret Service allowed this. You aren’t exactly denying it either, are you? You have offered exactly zero explanation as to why the building on which the sniper made his perch, which was an obvious vulnerability to anyone with two eyes and a working brain, was unguarded.

When you were asked why there were not guards posted on the roof of the building, your response was that the roof was sloped and there was a safety issue.

This roof, pictured below, with the alleged sniper prone on top of it.

Director Cheatle, that was your statement? That was your excuse?

Pardon me… but do you take me for some person with diminished intellect? Who could possibly believe such a ridiculous statement? How dare something like that come out of your incompetent mouth?

Madam Director, your agency is tasked with the gravest of responsibilities. The assassination of our political leaders has the potential to tear this country apart. Just what in the hell are you getting at? What do you mean by that statement? It is far too stupid to be taken at face value. So, what are you trying to imply?

Are you saying that you are glad the roof was unguarded? Are you saying that you want someone to kill President Trump? What in God’s name does “the roof was sloped and there was a safety issue” mean? Speak plainly, ma’am! I want to make sure we understand you.

Next:

As we have all seen in technicolor interviews and video evidence and, with timestamps proven by the clearly audible voice of President Trump, police and Secret Service were alerted that a man was crawling up that “dangerously” slanted roof with a rifle several minutes before shots were fired.

Why didn’t anyone contact the protection team to get President Trump off the stage until the situation could be resolved? This didn’t have to be a major incident. The authorities on the scene could have simply alerted the protection detail to pull the protectee off the stage for a few minutes until everyone could ascertain what was happening.

Why wasn’t that done? I don’t believe that they didn’t have communication with the protection team. First, there’s no way that there wasn’t a dedicated radio channel for emergency communications. Second, even if there wasn’t, the police could have called out on their normal police radios that there was a possible gunman and the President should be taken off the stage. There were tons of cops in the immediate vicinity of President Trump who could have alerted the Secret Service of the situation.

Are we to believe there was never a meeting with the Secret Service and their partner law enforcement agencies to talk about what to do if something happens? Are we to believe that there were no protocols in place? I don’t believe that. I don’t think anyone does.

For God sakes, if there was no other option, a police officer could have even fired a shot or two into the air to get them to take Trump off the stage. Anything at all would have been better than doing nothing… which is what everyone apparently did. Nothing.

They allowed the sniper to shoot President Trump. I want to know why. I demand to know why.

Next:

Let’s talk about the sniper. He was apparently a 20 year old male from the general area. We have seen zero interviews with anyone who actually knew him. We have one print quote from the alleged father of the sniper who said “I’m not saying anything until I find out what the hell is going on”. We have nothing from the mother. We have nothing from any close friends.

He is apparently the only 20 year old in America with no social media presence. There is no reporting on what YouTube videos he watched, if any at all. The police have no records for him. There aren’t even any photographs of him since he graduated high school!

The only videos of him are a clip from someone else’s social media where he made a dick joke, and he was apparently briefly featured in a now removed Blackrock advertisement. A Blackrock commercial? Is that some kind of sick joke?

Who was this kid? What did he believe? What did he do for fun? Who did he know, online and in person? What were his interests? Why in the world did he decide to go to that particular building that day and try to assassinate Donald Trump?

It has been reported that he was found with no ID, but apparently the FBI identified him via DNA within hours of the shooting. How did they do that? We have crimes all over the country with “mystery DNA”. How did the FBI have this kid’s DNA already on file when he didn’t have a police record?

Here’s a question: Can you prove to me that the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, even actually existed? Can you prove to me that there was such a person? No crying mom? No Tick Tock? No Snapwhatever? Just some Discord thingy that nobody has ever heard of, much less seen, that apparently had nothing of value on it.

Again, Madam Director, do I seem to be a retarded person to you? Do you believe me to be diminished in some way? Why are you intentionally hiding who this person was? Why do I get the feeling that we will never know anything more substantive about him than we already know?

People have compared this to Uvalde. I believe a much more apt comparison is to the Las Vegas shooting… where 500 people were shot and 50 killed by someone nobody knows anything about… to this very day… and everyone just shrugged and moved on.

That’s what this feels like. It feels like the Las Vegas shooting. In case I’m being too subtle… the Las Vegas shooting was a cover-up, and everyone who has asked even a few critical questions about that situation knows it.

Next:

I would ask about the fat sorority girls you put on the protection detail, but I actually know why you did that. You believe in the DEI religion, and you think it is noble to have 4’9” 200 lb Melissa McCarthy look-a-likes protecting large, old men… heavy men who don’t move easily. You think it’s virtuous to have people completely incapable of doing anything useful on the team.

Fine. I think that makes you foolish and … frankly kind of evil … but whatever.

Here’s a question for which I don’t have the answer. Why didn’t the protection detail follow the well known protocol for removing a protectee from a stage in the event of shots fired?

We have seen Presidents and other protectees evacuated off of stages before. Their feet barely touch the ground. They certainly don’t expose their head and chest for over 8 seconds and slowly parade off the damn stage.

Admittedly, once the shot was fired and Trump was hit, the situation was different from anything we have seen before… but we have already addressed that indescribably breathtaking failure. What I want to know now is, when the protection detail got the news that the shooter was down, and in the chaos someone decided it was time to move Mr. Trump to the waiting vehicle, the movement was slow, disorganized, and had multiple instances where Mr. Trump was completely exposed… up to and including the point when the detail got him into the vehicle.

There is no possible way the protection team could have known how many shooters there were. There is no possible way they could have believed the scene was secure at that time… unless there is truly something sinister afoot.

We have all heard George W. Bush talk about how the Secret Service refused to take him back to Washington DC on 9/11. We have all heard about how Dick Cheney’s feet barely touched the floor as he was escorted to the bunker. Yet here… for some reason… your agents decided to do the “see who else wants to shoot the President” version of evacuation.

Furthermore, given all the video I have seen from that day, I actually haven’t even seen a single video of Trump’s vehicle pulling out and driving away? How long did that take? What did that look like? Why didn’t anyone video that?

Conclusion:

Madam Director, I could ask many more questions about this complete and utter failure, but I’m going to stop my letter here out of fear of too much detail lessening the impact of how massive this failure was. This wasn’t a mistake, ma’am. This was a systemic failure at a level that is simply not explainable with mere incompetence.

Frankly ma’am, given the facts, I must ask one final question.

Were you then or are you now simply indifferent to the possible assassination of Donald Trump, or are you and others knowing co-conspirators in this horrible crime that left a good man dead, two others gravely wounded, and Donald Trump millimeters from having his brains blown out on national television?

I feel sorry for the grand tradition and devoted agents who find themselves in this indefensible position. They should resign in protest of your “leadership”.

As an American, I demand answers. If Donald Trump had been assassinated under these circumstance, it could have led to a civil war. You owe me and every other American some goddamn candor, contrition, and honesty.

Standing by,

Virgil