Security expert Brian Cavanaugh says former President Donald Trump was “a gust of wind away” from being assassinated on July 13th.

“To have a round pierce your ear, which is attached to your head, we're talking less than two millimeters away,” says Cavanaugh, a senior vice president at American Global Strategies.

For a bullet to come so close to taking the former president’s life, Cavanaugh said it causes one to think Trump was saved through “divine intervention.”

Cavanaugh formerly served as executive director for Strategic Planning and Integration for the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office. During a conversation with “The Daily Signal Podcast” at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last week, Cavanaugh assessed the security failures of the Secret Service following the attemp on the former president’s life during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, 33 miles north of Pittsburgh.

The building that the shooter targeted Trump from was about 150 yards away from the stage where Trump was speaking, according to Cavanaugh, who called it “absolutely baffling” that the building was not part of the Secret Service’s inner security perimeter.

Kimberly Cheatle, director of the Secret Service, will testify before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, amid calls for her resignation following the attempt on Trump’s life.

On today’s episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast,” Cavanaugh details what is known about the security breakdown at the rally and whether blame does fall on the head of the Secret Service for Trump’s near assassination.

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• Donald Trump formally accepts the Republican presidential nomination.
• Government bureaucrats are panicking over the prospect of former President Donald Trump winning another term in office.
• A lawmaker at Wednesday's FBI briefing to members of Congress said Congress was denied access to the Operations Report that laid out the protection plan for the rally where former president Donald trump was shot.
• Five more House Democrats call on President Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 presidential election.
• Whistleblowers from the Department of Homeland Security told Republican Sen. Josh Hawley that the majority of Members of the security detail for former President Donald Trump at the rally were "not even Secret Service.”

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https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/07/19/really-really-difficult-bureaucrats-worry-behind-closed-doors-theyll-be-sent-packing-under-trump/

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The Republican National Convention concluded Thursday night. The Daily Signal was on the ground in Milwaukee all week talking with lawmakers and conservative leaders. On today's show, we bring you three of our favorite interviews from the RNC.

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