Last weekend, President Trump survived a second assassination attempt in the last two months, prompting questions about the competence of Secret Service and the role of rhetoric in the recent incidents of political violence. Former Acting Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection and Heritage Foundation Visiting Fellow, Mark Morgan, joins Mercedes Schlapp on America Uncanceled to explain.
It’s clear now that the Secret Service is failing on multiple points in their job to protect the former president and current presidential candidate, and a debate has emerged surrounding the causes behind the failures. In talking to the press, President Biden blamed the failures on personnel issues, vowing to ask Congress for more money and resources for the Secret Service. Morgan, on the other hand, blames nothing other than top Secret Service officials and Director of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
“What is [the Left’s] answer when they screw something up? Just throw more money and more resources at it. That’s not the problem, especially these two assassination attempts. If you look at Butler, that was not a resource issue. That was a leadership issue. The same thing here,” explained Morgan.
Not only are the failures of the Secret Service being exposed but the extreme language the Left uses to describe President Trump that is prompting violence is also being exposed thanks to conservative media. Clips of Kamala Harris calling Trump “an existential threat to democracy” and instances of other Leftists comparing Trump to Hitler and calling him a dictator have resurfaced.
“Some of the rhetoric has literally said that he’s a threat to democracy and then they go on to say and that’s why he should be quote “eliminated”,” said Morgan.
He believes the answer to protecting President Trump from further violence lies in a reevaluation of Secret Service processes and holding leadership accountable.
Watch Morgan’s full commentary on the assassination attempts on CPAC+.
