Although the assassin’s bullet missed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in the head, the security provided to the former US president has raised many questions about the details of his security.
Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump gestures as he is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents as he walks off the stage at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Saturday, July 13, 2024. (AP) {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}}
While India’s Special Security Group (SPG) only allowed 180-degree exposure for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose threat level is many times higher than that of President Trump, the Republican candidate was allowed 360-degree exposure at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the assassin was allowed to fire at least five shots from an AR-15 assault rifle. There were other flaws as well.
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When PM Modi speaks, self-propelled guns swarm an area of ​​200 square meters from the podium, but there is a gap of 50-100 meters between the VVIPs speaking and the audience. At the Butler rally, the assassin was spotted just 120 yards from the podium, and the assassin, Thomas Matthew Crookes, fired five shots before a Secret Service sniper neutralized him. If Trump had not turned around at the last millisecond, the bullets would have hit the target.
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Donald Trump assassination attempt: Witnesses say security were warned about the gunman minutes before the shooting.
A review of the video of the assassination attempt showed that the guards were on the VVIP side when the shots were fired, with one tall police officer protecting Trump from attacking at his chest. The guards also dragged the assailant, who was identified, to the ground on a bulletproof sheet until he was neutralized. However, the guards had no bulletproof shields or protection from sniper fire. The AR-15 rifle used by the assassin has an effective range of 400 meters.
“I would give the US Secret Service a score of 6/10 for its handling of the assassination attempt. There was flawed access control and the VVIP’s head was not protected while he was being moved to the car. This left him completely vulnerable to the assassin’s bullets, even if a strike team had been present,” said a top Indian security expert.
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The US Secret Service managed to rescue Donald Trump, but its agents seemed to be in a state of panic and out of control: a tall male officer was guarding Trump from behind, while a shorter female officer was guarding the tall Republican candidate from the front, with Trump’s head exposed.
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Although everything seems to have become clear after the incident, the assassination attempt on President Trump is reminiscent of the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on July 8, 2022, which was caused by lax security. It was rather shocking that the assassin stood behind Prime Minister Abe and carried a domestically produced weapon without any intervention. Japan’s security personnel on that day were effectively caught off guard, allowing the assassin to target one of the tallest figures among Japan’s right-wing leaders.
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On October 27, 2013, Indian Mujahideen groups attacked the then BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi with multiple IEDs at Gandhi Square, killing six and injuring 85. The rally would have been in chaos had the then Director of Intelligence Asif Ibrahim and his Joint Director of Operations Tapan Deka (now Director of IB) not warned PM Modi that he could be targeted. After a timer device was found attached to a bomb that exploded in a public toilet at Patna Railway Station at 10 am, the BJP candidate was warned by DIB Ibrahim and Joint Director (Patna) Vivek Shrivastava and persuaded not to go to the rally. However, Narendra Modi ignored their advice and addressed the rally as a bomb exploded nearby. He called on the crowd not to panic and to leave the venue calmly as ambulances were taking the dead and injured to hospitals in Patna.
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Donald Trump assassination attempt: Shocking photos of former president’s bullet wounds passing through his head
On January 5, 2022, during the Charanjit Singh Chani Congress Party government, Prime Minister Modi’s motorcade was stranded for 20 minutes on the Ferozepur flyover and came under attack by militant farmers. While the state police and intelligence agencies were ostensibly unaware of the situation, Modi and his self-propelled guns found farmers backed by the then ruling party and the Akali Dal blocking the road.
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