Trump Assassination Prevention Update, Tuesday, Sep 17, 2024

Monday and Tuesday saw much jockeying around the problem presented to the American people: How do we prevent a third attempt on Donald Trump’s life?  Solving this problem will determine whether we have a country or not.  Joe Biden and Kamala Harris must be made personally responsible for ensuring that Trump has an impenetrable security shield, starting with deploying the best military security assets we have to supplement Trump’s Secret Service detail, while disciplining themselves and their media allies to stop the inflammatory rhetoric.

Monday saw some good developments in this battle and some which were good hearted but, ultimately, incompetent. 

First, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced that the state will investigate and charge Ryan Routh with attempted murder for his actions on Sunday in Palm Beach.  He pointedly noted that he did not think it was a good idea to put the FBI, the agency trying to eliminate Trump by lawfare, in charge of investigating his potential assassin.  This is excellent.  

Second, Senator Tommy Tuberville was interviewed by The Hill, and called for Navy Seals to be deployed to protect Trump.  The Secret Service has proved itself now, two times, incapable of protecting Trump.  If apparent amateurs can defeat their protective measures, what happens when a professional assassin or a terrorist takes up the assignment?

Erik Prince, the man who provided what ended up being flawless security in the Iraq war zone for dignitaries and government officials and who, according to various disclosures over time, was involved in assassinations sanctioned by the CIA in foreign countries, stated on Steve Bannon’s Warroom that the primary failures appear to be in advance work and security planning.  It would be difficult, he said, to deploy private security instead of the Secret Service or with them. But, supplementing the Secret Service’s advance and planning teams with people who “know how to hunt men” i.e., to think like a professional assassin based on experience with modern state level assassination operations, could substantially help the situation.  He mentioned that such people would be available through JSOC, the Joint Special Operations Command. This, we believe, is what is called for and what must be implemented immediately.

Various Senators and Congressmen are calling on increasing funding immediately for the Secret Service.  Others are calling on Trump to curtail his rallies, playing golf, or other allegedly difficult to secure activities.  Those calls are either well-meaning but impotent or malevolent and blatant election interference against Trump in the case of those looking to curtail his activities.  Funds should be raised and designated to implement the plan Erik Prince set out. It is not a question of simply providing more funding; it is a question of how those guarding President Trump must now think.