Jesse Watters had fascinating information on his show last night. He said the Secret Service agent who fired at the would-be assassin Ryan Routh missed all six shots from five feet away. If that’s true, what are we to make of it since agents have to be expert shots?
There is also information about all those phones he had.
That’s not all. The Secret Service knew early in the morning that Trump planned to golf that day and did not secure the course. That’s how Routh was able to hide in the bushes for 12 hours.
By the way, the defense attorneys plan to go with the insanity defense.
FOX NEWS ALERT: New revelations about the attempted Trump assassin, Ryan Routh. The @SecretService agent who spotted Routh in the bushes was only five feet away from him, but shot and missed- SIX TIMES. How does a trained agent miss a target five feet away? And that’s not all… pic.twitter.com/BT6ykkM42J
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) December 12, 2024
Give us the name of this agent. We need to laugh him/her out of existence.
There could be several reasons why the Special Agent missed. If he came up on the suspect and was surprised, he could have blasted off several shots while back peddling and/or moving to cover. In that case, the primary reason for the shots wasn’t offense, it was defense. From a shooting stance, the SA obviously had the shooting skills to obtain an 80% on a 5-25 yard shooting range or he wouldn’t have qualified for duty.
Real gunfights are usually at a range of 6 feet or less, and most shots miss. This SA wasn’t standing ready on the firing line, he walked up onto a suspect armed with a rifle. He probably had a handful of his cover jacket between the gun and his palm and was therefore shooting from the hip while moving backwards and trying to watch where he was shuffling, looking for cover, and trying to watch the suspect. I realize most of you are not law enforcement, so you’re surprised about the real world. This is the real world.
THE SHOCKING THING HERE ISN’T HE MISSED, IT’S THE SECRET SERVICE DIDN’T EVEN SEND TWO GUYS DOWN EACH SIDE OF THE COURSE BEFORE THE PRESIDENT SET UP TO TEE OFF.
My Shih Tzu shoots better than that!
Biden has made a blanket pardon that includes Routh, Hillary, and John Wilkes Booth.
Was it a girl agent? Sometimes girls close there eyes when pulling a trigger. Maybe one of the three that were representing the SS in PA July 13th? Not all women are like that. I know a couple dead shot women.
The entirely of the Federal government is an embarrassing joke. Their primary goal is to push DEI and Democrat politics/propaganda. Other than that, EVERY organization is totally inane. The American government exists to crush Americans.
I’m sorry y’all, I just don’t believe that headline.
He may have missed BY five feet, not FROM five feet.
Maybe the secret agent missed because he wanted to miss…..
Maybe he is the agent who leaked the information to the assassin that Trump would be there later that day…..
He was not gonna shoot his accomplice…..so he intentionally missed…from 5 feet…..
Perhaps the greatest threat to TRUMP is a DEI Secret Service.
When you use the term expert shots in relation to LEO’s and government agents, it has to be written as such: “”””””””””””””””””””””expert shots””””””””””””””””””””””
They do not, for the most part, do any type of extensive and habitual training on their firearms unless it’s on their own time and with their own paid for ammunition and when it’s time for everyone to do their annual qualifications, bottom line is EVERYONE WILL QUALIFY if we have to stay here all day…
Interesting comment, but without documentation…
30+ years of working inter-agency and DoD..
I spent 30 years as an FBI Special Agent and became a firearms instructor in 1990. Your comments were spot on. Everything in the government has been dumbed down to accommodate their hiring demographics. Things have gotten so bad that the FBI published a multi-page rationalization of why they were moving back to 9mm duty ammo when their own testing shows it’s inferior. The bottom line is they said it’s best for their needs, code word for some people can’t shoot worth a damn and 9mm is much cheaper to stock.
In summary: Shooting smoothly, fast, and accurately from a holster under a cover garment is a very difficult and perishable skill that four qualifications per year can NEVER achieve. Combine that with the fact that most employees don’t have the motor skills to achieve any degree of success in such, or don’t even care enough to practice it, the Bureau, as an organization has to discourage such training or face the prospect of having a lot of agents shot in the foot or DEI new hires washing out of Quantico. Firearms training SHOULD encourage both speed and accuracy. My personal rule over those 30 years was I always fired off the first shot on the firing line, which encourages speed and is, I admit, and ego thing, but more importantly, if I shot over a 90, I’d shoot faster, or below 90, I’d slow down.
Back in the 90’s I had a good friend who was a Secret Service agent and he told me that EVERY agent was issued 5,000 9mm rounds per year for the purpose of maintaining their personal weapon proficiency. He said that since he didn’t need all of it to stay up to speed, he would give me what he didn’t use. Of course, I didn’t accept any…
Yup, the individuals I knew that did handle well were doing training on their own time at a local range with personally bought ammo. I always dreaded joint opns training with federal and state HRT, there was almost always a guarantee of an ND….
I guess the secret service should have hired Alec Baldwin.
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