20-Year-Old Dietary Aide Outwits Secret Service | Trump Attempted Assassination Update and Analysis

20 yr old has zero social media, no political statements, no manifesto?

It is completely wild that this kid who got kicked off of his high school rifle team DID almost outwit the entire secret service. The whole situation is completely bizarre.

The fact that the cop saw him on the roof with a rifle and then went back down doesn’t make sense.

As an outsider I've often observed Americans tend to think organisations like the secret service, CIA, special forces, etc, are infallible. I think plain old incompetence, as can be seen in the actions of everyday police, actually explains quite a lot.

I know you can't judge a book by the cover, but this kid looks exactly like every bully's victim from when I was in High School.

I can’t fathom being a cop and somehow not expecting that the guy on the roof at a rally might have a rifle

I'm imagineing the conversation behind the scenes. "You're fired... and your fired, and your fired..."

Something fishy about this. One of the most obvious locations to protect, a gunman climbs up with a rifle and seen by spectators but not secret service? I wonder what political and personal views his parents had towards Trump.

So a 20 year old kid is going to know where the only unsecured rooftop is, bring a ladder and a rifle, crawl across roof and take aim??? And gets 8 shots off?? And attendees saw him and kept telling police and secret service that there was a gunman on the roof - many witnesses to this fact.... so why was rooftop unsecured? The first rule of securing an outdoor event is to secure all rooftops! ALSO - since they KNEW the gunman was on a roof aiming at Trump for some seconds before the gunfire started, WHY didn't they get Trump off the stage??? Super super shady and suspicious - all of it...

Secret Service is either compromised or incompetent.

What people don’t understand is that Pennsylvania has closed primaries and many will register as the opposing party in order to be able to vote for the candidate they feel their REAL selection can beat.

The roof was left unsecure by the best protection agency in the world? How did he even know to get on the roof? How did he even get near there with a ladder? He was only 135 feet away? He had time to assemble an AR-15? They spotted him for a whole 30 minutes and left the ex-President there? I am suspicious of the role of the Secret Service now.

Ridiculous and outrageous failure of security

1,000 sq.ft. is considered upper middle class somewhere in America? I didn’t realize Texas skewed my idea of America so badly.

This kid couldn’t make a single friend or get a girl to be nice to him but he could outsmart the secret service and nearly change the course of history. Right.

"One brave shoe . . . " is one of the most poetic observations in the history of Youtube vlogs.

In the early 90's, VP Dan Quayle visited my college and briefly spoke from the steps of an administration building to both fans and protesters that showed up. There were 4 buildings in near by proximity to his position and each of them had protective snipers on the roof. I would have expected the same to be the case last week. I don't get it.

Judging by the homes and postage-stamp properties, Thomas Crooks' neighborhood is NOT upper-class. Visually, it is more like a middle to lower-class area.

Kid was recruited, brainwashed, and helped. That they are saying simple incompetence is unbelievable to say the least.😮

We need to calm the political pressure cooker in media. It is helping no one.