Miranda Devine: Donald Trump and his supporters make a triumphant return to the scene of his first a

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 Donald Trump and his supporters make a triumphant return to the scene of his first assassination attempt
By Miranda Devine   
Published Oct. 6, 2024
Updated Oct. 7, 2024, 8:17 a.m. ET

It is a testament to the courage and fortitude of Donald Trump and his supporters that, on Saturday, tens of thousands returned to the scene of the first assassination attempt on the former president at Butler, Pa., to hear him speak.

With questions still unanswered about why he was ever placed in harm’s way on July 13, Trump stood in the same place and spoke at the same time as he did when an assassin’s bullet came within a hair’s breadth of killing him on live television, but miraculously only clipped the top of his ear.

His defiant return felt like a weighty moment in history, traced equally with awe and dread, but, this time at least, there was bulletproof glass in front of Trump as he stood on stage, counter-snipers were on every rooftop and giant containers shielded him from the roof of the unguarded building where 20-year-old shooter Thomas Crooks had taken aim.

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From the article:

... For all the brio of Trump and his valiant supporters on Saturday, an uncomfortable pall hung over the rally. Trump is lucky to be alive after being targeted at least twice by assassins in the past 12 weeks. How on earth did the Secret Service and the FBI get it so wrong?

That’s the question that Dr. ­Joseph Meyn has been asking himself every day since the first Butler rally.  ... Meyn, 51, had a perfect view of the hit on Trump, and recorded reams of video on his phone as the shots rang out.

But the peculiar attitude of the Secret Service and FBI agents who questioned him that night has given him grave fears for Trump’s safety.

First, he says, a Secret Service agent who was leading him into the witness area took a call from what he assumed was her supervisor in which she downplayed the assassination attempt, saying only that “shots were fired,” there were “casualties in the crowd” and the “president was unharmed.”

Meyn could hear the voice on the other end ask, “The president was unharmed?,” so he leaned over toward the phone and said, “No, he was shot with a bullet in the right ear.”

The annoyed agent “moved the phone to her left ear and gave me a look,” he said.

Next, Meyn was questioned by the FBI and recalls that he got into a ridiculous debate with an agent who insisted Trump had not been shot.

“Yes, he was,” said Meyn. “He turned his head and the bullet clipped the very top of his right ear. I saw some blood and tissue squirt out into the ether.”

The agent told him, “Stop. President Trump wasn’t hit … You don’t understand that that podium is armored. When the Secret Service tackled President Trump [to protect him after the shots], he hit his head on the podium.”

According to Meyn, “I said, ‘The problem is I saw it. I have a photographic memory. This is what I saw, and I have it on video.’” ...

The FBI and USSS are incompetent, but dangerously so.