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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My name is John Mounts. Today's my last day filling
in for JT. But we got to get on through it.
And every morning at this time we talk with Rory
O'Neill and Rory. This weekend Sunday marks the one year
anniversary of the Trump assassination attempt, and that's resulted in
a pretty big shakeup at Secret Service. It probably should.
What is the latest going on now?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Well, right, remember the head of the Secret Service at
the time, she resigned shortly after the shooting and a
day after testifying before Congress and the hearing that did
not go well for her. But the Secret Service also
disclosed this week that six agents have been suspended as
a result of their investigation into the security protocols that
(00:40):
were implemented there in Butler, Pennsylvania. One of those suspended
was on President or then candidate Trump's security detail. The
other five were from the field office that had to
arrange the security at this baseball sporting complex. So and
those five all got suspensions from ten up to forty
(01:01):
two days of suspended without pay.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Did it go into the specific reasons why they failed
to secure the rooftop or they didn't provide adequate communication?
With local official. Well, did they go into any of
the reasons or are they kind of keeping that close
to the best.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well from the Secret Service, we got very little information,
but remember Congress had the House and Senate both did
inquiries into this. There were outside reviews, there were internal reviews,
so we do know that the biggest issue was the communication.
Plenty of people and plenty of local police saw this
suspicious guy on the rooftop. They fought with a gun,
(01:40):
but they were unable to get that information to the
Secret Service sniper who was in a different position. They
also criticized the Secret Service for essentially failing in the
security setup, for not having enough situational awareness there, and
for technology failures, including the lack of working drone there
at the site that could have found this look. The
(02:01):
assassination attempt was not very sophisticated. Again, this guy was
seen by multiple people, even by multiple police. He raised
a red flag when he went through the security checkpoint early,
so there were plenty of reasons to be focused on
this twenty year old but again, none of it got
to the right people in time.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And with regard to Thomas Crooks, we haven't seemed like
we've heard a lot about the whys behind. Okay, he
didn't like the president, there's a lot of people didn't
like the president, but specifically why and also how he
was able to accomplish. Was it really just as simple
as he hatched a plan a few days before President's
coming to town, I'm going to take my gun, climb
that roof and take him out, or you know, was
there something else afoot? You know, there's always conspiracy theories,
(02:42):
you know, the single bullet theory and all that kind
of stuff. Was did Lee Harvey Oswell act alone? But
have they really, I don't know, looked out all the
possibilities with him? Is it really just one loan nut
in Pennsylvania decided he's going to take out the president?
Or is it possible something else was there?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, it looks like it's one loan, but as you said,
that's what it appears to be. Twenty years old, not
very social. They have gone through his computers. He was
not online a lot. He did have some fake social
media accounts or used fake names, said some things that
were anti immigrant to anti Semitic as well, said some
awful things, but it didn't seem as if he was
(03:19):
obsessed by it. We know that judging by the T
shirt he was wearing at the time, he was a
fan of a YouTube group that's into guns. Nothing wrong there,
but otherwise even the family has pretty much gone underground
since then and not saying much about this. But for
the most part, we really have no idea what the
specific motive.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Was here, and I guess we probably because he is dead,
we're not going to be able to talk to him
about it. And you know, if he didn't leave much
of a trail, I guess that's a good thing. And
if we can, if we can further go, because one
thing I don't like is when you have something like
that and then they make the guy into some sort
of a cult figure, a martyr type person, and everyone
wants to worship the guy. At least, he's kind of
(04:00):
been swept on it. To be honest, I had to
look up his name. I forgot his name, So he's
kind of been swept under the ruggah history, which is
probably a good thing all things considered.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well, compare this to the man who shot and killed
the United Healthcare executive. I'm not going to repeat his name.
He's gotten plenty of press enough, but you know, that
guy has become almost a cult hero, and you know,
he's handsome or whatever, so they you know, he has
a whole different kind of following now compared to the
person in Butler, who, as you said, has almost been
(04:29):
a race from history.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Well probably say some things probably should be buried. Rory O'Neill,
thank you so much for joining us on Alabama's morning news.
My name is John Mounts. Today's my last day filling
in for JT. But we got to get on through it.
And every morning at this time we talk with Rory
O'Neill and Rory. This weekend Sunday marks the one year
anniversary of the Trump assassination attempt, and that's resulted in
a pretty big shakeup at Secret Service. It probably should.
What is the latest going on now?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Well, right, remember the head of the Secret Service at
the time, she resigned shortly after the shooting and a
day after testifying before Congress and the hearing that did
not go well for her. But the Secret Service also
disclosed this week that six agents have been suspended as
a result of their investigation into the security protocols that
(00:40):
were implemented there in Butler, Pennsylvania. One of those suspended
was on President or then candidate Trump's security detail. The
other five were from the field office that had to
arrange the security at this baseball sporting complex. So and
those five all got suspensions from ten up to forty
(01:01):
two days of suspended without pay.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Did it go into the specific reasons why they failed
to secure the rooftop or they didn't provide adequate communication?
With local official. Well, did they go into any of
the reasons or are they kind of keeping that close
to the best.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well from the Secret Service, we got very little information,
but remember Congress had the House and Senate both did
inquiries into this. There were outside reviews, there were internal reviews,
so we do know that the biggest issue was the communication.
Plenty of people and plenty of local police saw this
suspicious guy on the rooftop. They fought with a gun,
(01:40):
but they were unable to get that information to the
Secret Service sniper who was in a different position. They
also criticized the Secret Service for essentially failing in the
security setup, for not having enough situational awareness there, and
for technology failures, including the lack of working drone there
at the site that could have found this look. The
(02:01):
assassination attempt was not very sophisticated. Again, this guy was
seen by multiple people, even by multiple police. He raised
a red flag when he went through the security checkpoint early,
so there were plenty of reasons to be focused on
this twenty year old but again, none of it got
to the right people in time.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And with regard to Thomas Crooks, we haven't seemed like
we've heard a lot about the whys behind. Okay, he
didn't like the president, there's a lot of people didn't
like the president, but specifically why and also how he
was able to accomplish. Was it really just as simple
as he hatched a plan a few days before President's
coming to town, I'm going to take my gun, climb
that roof and take him out, or you know, was
there something else afoot? You know, there's always conspiracy theories,
(02:42):
you know, the single bullet theory and all that kind
of stuff. Was did Lee Harvey Oswell act alone? But
have they really, I don't know, looked out all the
possibilities with him? Is it really just one loan nut
in Pennsylvania decided he's going to take out the president?
Or is it possible something else was there?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, it looks like it's one loan, but as you said,
that's what it appears to be. Twenty years old, not
very social. They have gone through his computers. He was
not online a lot. He did have some fake social
media accounts or used fake names, said some things that
were anti immigrant to anti Semitic as well, said some
awful things, but it didn't seem as if he was
(03:19):
obsessed by it. We know that judging by the T
shirt he was wearing at the time, he was a
fan of a YouTube group that's into guns. Nothing wrong there,
but otherwise even the family has pretty much gone underground
since then and not saying much about this. But for
the most part, we really have no idea what the
specific motive.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Was here, and I guess we probably because he is dead,
we're not going to be able to talk to him
about it. And you know, if he didn't leave much
of a trail, I guess that's a good thing. And
if we can, if we can further go, because one
thing I don't like is when you have something like
that and then they make the guy into some sort
of a cult figure, a martyr type person, and everyone
wants to worship the guy. At least, he's kind of
(04:00):
been swept on it. To be honest, I had to
look up his name. I forgot his name, So he's
kind of been swept under the ruggah history, which is
probably a good thing all things considered.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well, compare this to the man who shot and killed
the United Healthcare executive. I'm not going to repeat his name.
He's gotten plenty of press enough, but you know, that
guy has become almost a cult hero, and you know,
he's handsome or whatever, so they you know, he has
a whole different kind of following now compared to the
person in Butler, who, as you said, has almost been
(04:29):
a race from history.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Well probably say some things probably should be buried. Rory O'Neill,
thank you so much for joining us on Alabama's morning news.
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