Nigel Farage rages at US Secret Service as he reveals how close Trump assassin came
The Reform UK agreed the former President is now "odds on" to win November's election.
Nigel Farage has questioned how the US Secret Service allowed would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks to scale a roof and open fire on Donald Trump.
The Reform UK agreed the former President is now “odds on” to win November’s election.
And Mr Farage revealed just how close Crooks came to assassinating Donald Trump and changing America’s fate.
He said, on his return to his GB News show: “I find it really hard to believe that the Secret Service could have allowed a man onto the only roof in the vicinity, not 130 yards away from where President number 45 was speaking.
“By an absolute miracle of fate, literally, as the guy was about the pull the trigger, he moved his head sharply to look at one of the screens to get some immigration statistics and the bullet went through his ear.
“Thank God for that.
“Will it change him as man? I very much doubt it. I think he will be even more determined to carry on the way that he is.
“Even before, he was looking in an ever stronger position.”
The director of the US Secret Service Kimberly Cheatle said police were stationed inside the building from which gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks fired shots at Donald Trump.
But Crooks climbed up and crawled along the rooftop before opening fire, much to the horror of witnesses.
The local police deployment inside the building comprised three snipers, who are alleged to have seen Crooks trying to get on the roof.
It was a Butler Township police officer who encountered the gunman on the roof before the shooting. The officer was looking for the suspicious person when another officer hoisted him up so he could grab the edge of the roof.
The officer then dropped down to the ground, injuring his ankle. A sniper killed Crooks seconds after he fired toward the former president.
At least a dozen police officers and sheriff's deputies were assisting the U.S. Secret Service and Pennsylvania State Police with rally security.
Stan Kephart, a former police chief who worked event security for two former presidents, said the shooting followed an "an absolute and abysmal failure" on the part of the Secret Service to protect Trump. The agency is ultimately responsible for the candidate's safety, he added.
"You don't get to blame other people. They are under your control," said Kephart, now a consulting expert on law enforcement event security.
President Joe Biden has ordered an independent investigation of the assassination attempt including security at the rally. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said he has "full confidence" in the Secret Service's leadership, but he conceded that the gunman never should have reached that deadly position.
