Secret Service Allegedly Diverted to Jill Biden Instead of Trump Just Before Shooting: Report
By C. Douglas Golden
July 15, 2024 at 5:36am
As it becomes clear that former President Donald Trump will survive his wounds and recover quickly, the focus of Saturday’s assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, shifts to how this could have happened — particularly on the watch of the Secret Service.
Susan Crabtree of RealClearPolitics might have one of the answers as to how this could have happened.
She reported Saturday that resources within the Secret Service were diverted away from the presumptive GOP nominee’s detail and were instead deployed to protect first lady Jill Biden as she campaigned for her husband, President Joe Biden, the same day.
Both the first lady and Trump were in the Pittsburgh area on Saturday, according to KDKA-TV; Biden was scheduled to speak “in Pittsburgh with the White House announcing on Wednesday she will speak at an Italian Sons and Daughters dinner. That will also be at 5 p.m. She’s expected to arrive at Pittsburgh International Airport an hour before the event.”
“This marks the First Lady’s third visit to Pittsburgh this summer,” the Pittsburgh station noted.
Who would want to see Dr. Jill when they could go see DJT? It seems as though this gig was scheduled to rob Secret Service from Trump's appearance. This is akin to sending Secret Service to follow Eleanor Roosevelt around. But back in the 1930s a woman's place was in the home, not out stumping the election circuit.