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

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Dan Bongino.

Welcome to the Bongino Brief.

I'm Dan Bongino.

This, we have been the home for breaking news

and everything we've told you 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 gonna 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 Dr. Jill up at an event in Pennsylvania

had upwards of what, 10 to 12?

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 2-2-3 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 six feet tall.

How the hell are you going to be a human shield

at five foot two?

Can you explain that?

Five foot two, six feet tall.

Five foot two, six feet tall.

And let me ask you a pretty simple question.

By the way, all this stuff is in this book.

Again, get it from the library.

Steal it from your friend.

Don't steal from your friend.

Borrow it.

I don't give a shit.

I don't want anybody's money.

Look at all the chapters in this book.

The special agent mess,

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've listened to me and cut the bullshit

and stopped the DEI crap,

maybe we 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 his tale.

We've been talking about this for table kids.

Nobody wants to listen to us.

All the media wants to do is bullshit people all the time.

Folks, here's a Fox report.

There is one thing about this.

This is interesting here.

The difficulty of the CS shot.

When I say CS, I'm talking about counter-sniper.

A Secret Service counter-sniper team took out the shooter.

Now, he shouldn't have had to take out the shooter at all.

Period, okay?

It should, 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, 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.

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 he described the shot

as a one-in-a-million type of shot.

The counter-sniper 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

that 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 unit,

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.

These are facts we now know.

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

There, you're seeing it from the Fox clip.

They missed.

The Secret Service uniformed division officer,

that's this counter-sniper unit.

There were no agents in there.

I wanna be clear.

They're uniformed division officers.

It's a separate division of the Secret Service.

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.

Enough on that.

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Next point.

The shooter did pre-op surveillance with a freakin' drone

and the Secret Service had no eyes in the sky?

Are you shitting me?

What is this, a romper room?

What, are you kidding me?

Is this Sesame Street bullshit?

I have another question right now.

Members of Congress, are you listening?

Staffers, get ready, take notes, get your pens out.

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 gonna 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 CSU, counter-surveillance unit,

vulnerability assessment should have documented

that rooftop as a vulnerability point.

Is anyone in Congress gonna 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 gonna 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 the 45-minute mark.

This is an animation, I think it's from

at the typical liberal or something like, is it?

Yeah, but this is a really kick-ass animation.

It goes on for about three minutes,

but I'm not gonna play the whole thing.

I'm gonna play the core part.

It's 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.

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 presents 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 10-foot red disc 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 hit the 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.

Take a look at what happened.

which is the same bullet 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.

Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go.

Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go.

What are we doing? What are we doing?

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.

I you know who you are. Thank you very much.

The Secret Service Director is going to get someone else hurt.

She is clearly incompetent.

She does not have the skill set to lead a complicated agency.

Protection is getting very difficult in the area of drone technology.

Protective methodology.

It is getting very difficult.

If they had a manpower problem, they should have spoken out in advance.

This is really, really bad.

I am deathly afraid that Donald Trump or any other protecting

Joe Biden or anyone else, we don't let our people get killed here.

This isn't the third world, OK?

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.

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