John Daniel Davidson writes, "No failure, regardless of how monumental or catastrophic, is ever so bad that President Joe Biden and his lieutenants won’t try to spin it into some kind of success. Because no Democrat will ever admit failure, there’s never any accountability when things go unimaginably bad."
He's talking about the spectacle of Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
On Monday, he was defending U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who is facing a growing chorus of calls to resign, and declaring he has “100 percent” confidence in her and her agency in the wake of an assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump on Saturday at his rally.
DEI ideology and Dr. Jill's friendship put Cheatle in her position as Director of the US Secret Service.
She miserably failed Trump and the nation on Saturday in Pennsylvania.
Be informed, not misled.
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Mayorkas says, “What you saw on stage on Saturday, with respect to individuals putting their own lives at risk for the protection of another, is exactly what the American public should see every single day,” he said — adding, in a note of absurd self-aggrandizement, “It is what I indeed do.”
The president himself, in a Monday interview with NBC News, echoed Mayorkas’ line about individual agents putting their lives on the line and then said it was an “open question” whether they did what they needed to do to prevent the assassination attempt.
Davidson says, "But of course, they did not do what needed to be done, otherwise it wouldn’t have happened. The failure of the Secret Service in this regard is mind-boggling in its completeness. There is no way they could have failed in greater measure — except to have literally done nothing and allowed the shooter to empty his magazine at Trump. Yet the Biden administration is chalking this up to an exemplary success and claims to still have '100 percent confidence' in the Secret Service."
This is yet another example of what's wrong in our country.
How bad was it?
Olivia Rinaldi of CBS News posted on X Monday evening that snipers were stationed inside the building where the would-be assassin staged his attack. They saw him beforehand, outside looking up at the roof. He left and came back and they watched him use a range finder. They took a picture of him and called it in to the command post. He came back a third time with a backpack and then disappeared around behind the back of the building.
Stunning new details from @CBSNews on how secret service snipers noticed the shooter before the Trump rally in Butler, PA on Saturday.
— Olivia Rinaldi (@olivialarinaldi) July 16, 2024
There were three snipers stationed INSIDE the building the shooter was on, according to a local law enforcement officer with direct knowledge.
Keep in mind that video footage from rally attendees confirms that a bunch of people saw the shooter well before he fired from the rooftop and struck Trump in the ear. They filmed it. In the video clips, people yell, “He’s on the roof!” “He’s got a gun!”
Davidson writes, "As far as sniper assassination attempts go, this might be the most telegraphed attack in history. Yet the Secret Service failed to act until after the shooter got off five rounds, one of which hit the former (and likely future) president in the face — and another of which killed an innocent husband and father in the crowd, Corey Comperatore."
Surely, Mayorkas knows all this, which means there’s only one reason he has “100 percent confidence” in the Secret Service: They allowed the assassination attempt, or at least issued an order to stand down until the would-be assassin fired first. That’s the only reasonable explanation here, and if it’s true, then it’s one of the greatest scandals — and acts of treason — in American history, he says.
Reality check.
We see a pattern here we’ve seen throughout the Biden presidency, in which every failure, no matter how objective it is, no matter how mind-bogglingly complete, is somehow chalked up to success by Biden and his band of incompetents.
The catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan was actually a logistical feat! Who can forget Gen. Mark Milley bragging about how many people were evacuated in so short a time — with no mention of why they had to be evacuated so fast and how many thousands were left behind to be victimized by the Taliban? He did this — and Biden repeated the talking point — even after 13 U.S. soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing at the Kabul Airport.
Or take the ongoing, never-ending border invasion under Biden. Mayorkas has insisted for the better part of three years that there is no crisis, that the border is under control, and that actually, the men and women of Border Patrol are doing a great job under very difficult circumstances, and blah blah blah it’s not a failure, it’s a success. Never mind that some 10 million-plus illegal immigrants have flooded into the country on Biden’s watch and that no small number of them have proceeded to rape and kill American citizens after being released from federal custody.
In every such case, Biden officials act like the American people are simply too stupid to recognize these failures for the successes they actually are. Afghanistan was a feat of logistics. The border is a feat of administrative processing. The assassination attempt was a feat of selflessness by the individual agents.
Action is required, but "progressives" can only react. And lie.
Our country is in a very fragile place at this point in history. And it should matter to all of us.
U.S. authorities reportedly received intelligence ahead of an assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump over the weekend that Iran was reportedly plotting to kill him, CNN reported on Tuesday.
The intelligence, provided to U.S. authorities by a human source, prompted the Secret Service to ramp up protections for the former president in the weeks leading up to the shooting, several people briefed on the matter told CNN. There is no known connection between the alleged Iranian plot and the assassination attempt against Trump by Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old gunman who was killed by U.S. forces swiftly after he began opening fire on Trump and the crowd on Saturday.
Many are calling for Director Cheatle to resign as Director of the US Secret Service.
She says she won't resign.
How did she get this job?
The New York Post, in an exclusive report, explains:
“Cheatle served on Dr. Biden’s second lady detail and Anthony pushed for her,” a Democratic insider told The Post. “Anthony has no national security or law enforcement experience. He should have no influence over the selection of the USSS director.”
“I heard at the time she was being considered for director that top Jill Biden adviser Anthony Bernal "had pushed her forward as an option,” another well-placed source told The Post.
Bernal, 51, is widely regarded as rivaling even White House chief of staff Jeff Zients in terms of influence over administration decisions.
He has faced allegations of bullying and sexual harassment from colleagues who have likened his sway to that of Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin over the Romanov court.
“Anthony is obsessed with being DEI-compliant,” a third source told The Post, using the acronym for diversity, equity, and inclusion — the human resources practice of attempting to ensure diversity in the workforce.
Takeaway
The Leftists always hide behind the people who have to carry out their insane, disastrous policies. No one doubts the courage of individual soldiers in Afghanistan, Border Patrol agents along the Rio Grande, or the Secret Service agents who rushed the stage in Pennsylvania. What we doubt is the ability of the people in charge even to recognize the difference between success and failure.
Davidson says, "For them, every failure is actually a success, which means there is never accountability because nothing ever goes awry. Imagine the confidence it would give the American people if Biden came out and announced that U.S. Secret Service Director Cheatle has been asked to resign, along with Mayorkas, in light of the assassination attempt against Trump. That would actually give Americans some confidence that their leaders are still tethered to reality, or at least that they are sometimes forced to recognize the truth and act on it."
"But instead, we have an unstable admixture of incompetence and malice — and an enraging absence of accountability."
What does the Bible say about government's role in society?
According to Romans 13:4, the government is supposed to punish the evildoer. It is a “minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.”
Romans 12:17-19 tells the believer to “never…pay back evil for evil,” and “never take your own revenge.” It’s not that God is telling us to forget or ignore injustice. God will exercise vengeance now or later, and the government is one of his tools for doing this.
To borrow a term from political theory, the government is filling a “negative” role when it punishes evil. This role involves punishing bad behavior in order to protect citizens in their pursuit of something legitimate. For example, by punishing evil, the government is protecting a citizen’s own pursuit of private property, health, and life. In contrast, the government plays a “positive” role when it directly provides something to its citizens—like healthcare, food stamps, or low-interest student loans.
Romans 13:3 mentions the government’s positive role: “Do what is good and you will have praise from the same [authority].”
Note that this passage does not call the government to play a positive role by creating rights, goods, or services, but to give praise to those who actively do good.
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged. Be Courageous. Be Prayerful.