AoSHQ The Morning Report
July 31, 2024
A Secret Service counter-sniper predicts there will be another assassination attempt before the November election. And why wouldn't there be? The Secret Service honchos still appear to be caught up in their navel-gazing since the shooting of former President Donald Trump on July 13. Or, as the sniper put it, they've gone into CYA mode.In Other News
And then the Secret Service scrubbed the email from the government servers.
Hold on, I'll get to that. But first, let's be thankful for what we do know about the attempted assassination of the former president of the United States.
Thankfully, we can finally—definitively—report, based on Secret Service and FBI testimony in front of the Senate Tuesday, that contrary to what likely soon-to-be-former FBI Director Christopher Wray testified to Congress, the former president was wounded by a bullet and not shrapnel as Wray intimated twice to a House hearing.
Over and over again during Monday's House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing, members from both sides of the partisan aisle repeatedly asked questions of now-former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.In Other News
Congress and the American people have an unquestionable constitutional right to hear the answers to those questions, but Cheatle repeatedly declined to answer, deferred to the FBI, or claimed not to have the information sought.
Even the Associated Press had to acknowledge Cheatle's unconstitutional refusal to answer even the most basic questions about how a 20-year-old kid with no known military training was able to climb on top of a building with a close-in and clear shot at Trump.
"Cheatle was berated for hours by Republicans and Democrats, repeatedly angering lawmakers by evading questions about the investigation during the first hearing over the July 13 assassination attempt," is how AP summarized the frustrating day.
Cheatle's silence in the face of bipartisan outrage was so bad that after the hearing Rep. Jamie Rankin, the far-Left Maryland Democrat who is the ranking member of the oversight panel, joined with the Republican chairman, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky), in demanding Cheatle's resignation.
She resigned the next morning.
Two of my favorites among Donald Trump’s rivals for the 2024 nomination spoke back-to-back in favor of the former (and future) president at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night. Former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador Nikki Haley was up first, speaking of uniting Republicans behind Trump even if they don’t always agree with him.In Other News
Haley was a tough act to follow, but Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) rose to the occasion. Leading with “let’s send Joe Biden back to his basement, and let’s send Donald Trump back to the White House,” he gave a fiery speech that didn’t spare the Biden administration or the left in general.
DeSantis delivered zingers that met with applause:
Life was more affordable when Donald Trump was president. Our border was safer under the Trump administration, and our country was respected when Donald Trump was our commander-in-chief.
Joe Biden has failed this nation. As a veteran, I was appalled when 13 of our service members were killed in Afghanistan due to Joe Biden's dereliction of duty. As a citizen, as a husband, and as a father, I am alarmed that the current president of the United States lacks the capability to discharge the duties of his office.
Our enemies do not confine their designs to between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. We need a commander-in-chief who can lead 24 hours a day and seven days a week. America cannot afford four more years of a “Weekend at Bernie's” presidency.
And DeSantis was just getting started. Calling the president a “figurehead” and “a tool for imposing a leftist agenda on the American people,” the governor turned to leftists in general:
They support open borders, allowing millions and millions of illegal aliens to pour into our country and to burden our communities. But just don't send any to Martha's Vineyard. Then they get really upset.
They have unleashed progressive prosecutors across our nation who care more about coddling criminals than about protecting their own communities. They use the unelected bureaucracy to impose their will on us without our consent. And they weaponize political power to target their political opponents like they've done to our own nominee.
We have a responsibility to preserve what George Washington called the sacred fire of liberty. This was a fire that burned in Independence Hall in 1776, when 56 men pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to establish this nation. It's a fire that burned at a cemetery in Gettysburg, Pa., when our nation's first Republican president pledged this nation to a new birth of freedom. It's a fire that burned at the foot of the Berlin Wall in 1987, when our nation's 40th president stood in front of that wall and said, “Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.”
This is not a responsibility we should fear. It's a responsibility we should welcome. After all, if not us, who? And if not now, when? Let's make the 45th president of the United States the 47th president of the United States. Let's elect Republicans up and down the ballot. And let's heed the call of our party's nominee to fight, fight, fight for these United States. Thank you. God bless you. Let's win in November.