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Security and Threat Mitigation Professional

There is much criticism of former President Trump’s security and such an event will quite rightly be subject to severe scrutiny and there is justifiable concern over the pre-clearance of the event.What is clear though is that at the actual moment of incident that the three immediate security members, closest to President Trump reacted quickly, jumped up onto the stage to get to him and protected him with their bodies, until they received the message that the shooter was down, before they attempted to move him – it was approximately 2.5 seconds from when the shot rings out to the agents being on top of him after moving from their initial positions – it was 1.5 seconds approximately from when former President Trump touched his ear - the video below confirms this. The immediate security detail responded quickly and were prepared to sacrifice their lives and bodies to protect former President Trump and they have my utmost respect for it. Whether they should have had to do that is the critical point, with regards to looking at this incident from the planning, resourcing and training needs perspective. #Trump #security #assassin #politics https://lnkd.in/gdH-33m6

Hi Brendan. We have mutual connections. I personally think they took way too long to move him, waited for him to put his shoes back on and then let him move out of their protectve barrier to expose his head and pump the air without really knowing there were no other threats. Not a high mark in protection from my perspective. But I’m no expert. Be interested to hear both your and your networks thoughts.

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