Good News: The People Responsible for the Afghanistan Debacle Will Now Help Guard Candidates

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The Secret Service, with its abject incompetence (at best) thoroughly exposed in the wake of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, is now going to get some help.  The Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, has announced that his department will be providing those charged with guarding the presidential and vice presidential candidates with “additional military support capabilities.” Hey, that’s a relief. We can all rest easy knowing that the people responsible for the Biden regime’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan in Aug. 2021 will now be making sure that some young ideologue doesn’t try again to make the left’s Trump problem go away for good. What could possibly go wrong?

Reuters reported Thursday that “Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh did not provide details on the type of support that would be provided but said Austin had directed U.S. Northern Command to plan and provide support to the Secret Service at various locations during the election.” A Secret Service wonk was a bit more forthcoming, explaining that “as part of this effort, the Department of Defense is providing the U.S. Secret Service with additional assistance including logistics, transportation, and communications, through the 2024 campaign season.”

Great. Really, though, the problem here is that the assassination attempt on Trump has exposed the Secret Service as abjectly incompetent or worse. How effective is it going to be to give this failed agency some help from another government agency that was exposed as likewise abjectly incompetent or worse three years ago, when it oversaw the disastrously botched Afghanistan withdrawal? If I weren’t so sure that the Biden-Harris regime is ardently patriotic and committed to the founding ideals of the American republic, including the tolerance and even encouragement of a loyal opposition, I might start to suspect that the regime is setting up the Secret Service for another failure. But that, of course, is inconceivable.

After all, the Secret Service has already identified and neutralized its fall guys for their failure to prevent a skeevy young leftist from getting off eight shots at Trump. Fox News reported last week that “at least five members of the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) have been placed on administrative leave” because of their failures in connection with the Trump shooting. This means that “the five are still employed,” drawing your hard-earned money, “but are teleworking and are no longer allowed in the field. They cannot do any investigative work.” That’s good, but of course it’s not even close to being good enough.

That’s because it’s clear that these five agents were not responsible for the Secret Service’s July 13 debacle. There was a long string of inexplicable mistakes, all committed by veteran agents, including the head of the agency — all of whom were Democrats. So why isn’t the “news media” asking the real question: did someone order the hit on President Trump? Or is the Secret Service really this useless?

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