Sean Spicer
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520 appearances
10 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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So let's define terms here. So security perimeter is where you can get in where you don't have to get a pat down or through a magnetometer. So that's just like superficially obvious. I can walk all the way over there and I don't have to go through a magnetometer.
And then you've got the security bubble, which is like the area that people are responsible for, which is going to be a much broader, bigger area than just your security perimeter. Right. He knew because he'd been walking around there for five hours, totally unmolested. He got a drone up. He had a range finder. He cased the place.
He knew it just by having walked around me like, oh, there's no cops over there. I'm going to go over there.
Yeah, so this is what I find the most enraging. This counter-sniper team lead has been deposed by a bunch of different committees. He gives different answers in all of them. Mike? If you want, you know, failure, failure has a lot of people to blame. And so I don't think you can blame it on one person. I think you can blame it on one organization, which is the Secret Service.
Utterly incompetent from top to bottom. It's a totally rotten culture with no accountability, nothing. So, and within that, you had a bunch of people who failed. But the last link of failure, which is what allowed the guy to get a shot off, was from, was due to this counter sniper team lead.
he shows up i think four days ahead of time to do his advance so i think this would have been the wednesday which would have been july 10th trump shot on a saturday july 13th he has four days on site puts together his plan kind of sketches out where he wants everyone he never set foot on or in that building never Why? This will blow your mind.
He's testifying to one congressional committee and they're like, well, they asked him that question. So you never set foot over there, like even the day of when you got time to do a final walkthrough. And he says, no, well, you see, because I had to go do a bunch of paperwork and I want to make sure my paperwork was good and it wasn't fuzzy and stuff. Quote, you live and die by paperwork.
I thought you lived and died by bullets. Yeah. No, you live and die by paperwork. He was so focused on his paperwork that he never went and actually looked around. The other thing that's crazy. Do you know anything about this guy, by the way? I know a little bit. Don't know his name.
uh he had been with the secret service i think for six years no prior military experience uh no prior sharpshooter or sniper experience uh he showed up worked for two years because you have to work like a desk or trailing someone for two years before you can be a counter sniper and then he had been a counter sniper for the rest of his time there now i personally find that kind of crazy
I would think if you want someone whose job is to think what a sniper thinks like and be able to have countermeasures and protect against that, you'd probably want a guy who had done that job before. Yeah. Like if you're going to have somebody teach in your basketball team how to do defense, you'd like to know that they've made a basket before. Of course. Yes. But that's not what happened here.
So you had a guy who no prior military experience, no prior sniper experience. He actually wasn't a sniper. He was a sharpshooter. He could shoot. I'm sure he could shoot well from long range. But that doesn't make you a sniper. You have to know so much. There's recon. There's observing. There's getting into position. There's communicating. There's recording.
Those are all the things that people who go into sniper school in the military spend weeks and weeks doing before they ever touch a gun. And they'll talk about like, you can kind of teach anyone to shoot a gun. That's the easy part. It's mechanical. It's learning all the other stuff. It's like the real value in the job. So this guy never had that. Just ta-da. He's a counter sniper now.
So he's setting up his perimeter. He had no idea when he set the people up where he wanted them for the event. So you've got Trump on stage. You've got three barns behind him. To Trump's 3 o'clock, which is directly north, you've got that AGR building where the shooter was. The sniper team set up directly behind Trump on two of the three barns behind him.
So the ones that we've all seen in that shot where you've got one guy on the tripod who pops up and looks around, and then you've got the other guy who's prone, they never saw the shooter because there's a gigantic tree in their way. From where they were, line of sight to where the building was where Crooks shot, gigantic tree, blocking like a third of the building. They never saw him. Wow.
So then you have the team leader and his partner, and his partner's the one who shot Crooks. They're on the southern barn. And so one's on one side, one's on the other. The countersniper team leader, he never saw the shooter. Shooter was dead before he ever saw him. So you've got one guy, basically, in that whole area who has visibility on that roof.
And you would think, oh, well, he must have been scanning that area regularly. Well, Congress deposed this guy. And he says, no, that actually wasn't my area that I was supposed to be scanning. So if you think of a clock, you know, 12, 12 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 6 o'clock, 9, Trump's in the center where he's looking is 12 o'clock. The position from which he was shot would be 3 o'clock.
The guy who actually shot him, he was actually watching from 6 o'clock to 12 o'clock. So east, south, and west of Trump.
He was never looking over there. It wasn't until he heard shots that he turned over there. So of all the people who were tasked with doing counter-sniper surveillance and mitigation, only one person ever actually saw the shooter, even though he'd been on the roof for six minutes.
Correct. How can that be? Incompetence. That's incompetence, laziness, and arrogance. And afterwards, the Secret Service, you might recall, tried to blame the local cops. Of course. They were supposed to do it. We had them in the building. They never told the cops, number one, that their job was to be scoping out that roof.
All of the cops from the local police forces who were there to provide sniper coverage, first off, they were never told that they were counter snipers. They were told they were Overwatch. So they set up in an area in the building where they had a great shot of the crowd, pretty much the entire crowd. And they're watching it the whole time.
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