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.

To watch all the interviews of The Daily Signal's RNC coverage, check out The Daily Signal YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/DailySignal.

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Sen. Kevin Cramer joins The Daily Signal Podcast after confronting the Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

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

• Former President Donald will address the RNC tonight.
• President Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19, prompting more calls from within his party for him to drop out of the race.
• Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle faces mounting pressure to resign.
• Milwaukee police are beefing up security around the RNC.
• The Biden administration’s prosecution of a Texas surgeon who exposed a hospital’s sex-change procedures on children appears “political.”

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https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/07/18/secret-service-chief-faces-mounting-pressure-to-resign/

https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/07/18/hhs-weaponizing-medical-privacy-law-protect-child-sex-changes-former-department-official-says/

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Two days after the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, political commentator Tucker Carlson says, “It’s not crazy to think that there was something there, it was an effort to kill Trump, it wasn’t just a lone gunman.”

The assailant crawled on to a nearby rooftop Saturday night while Trump was on stage at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, 33 miles north of Pittsburgh. The shooter fired multiple shots, shirking Trump in the right ear. It remains unclear how the gunman, who was killed, was not seen and neutralized by authorities prior to opening fire.

“At some point we may find out what happened on Saturday,” Carlson says.

The Daily Signal caught up with Carlson behind the scenes of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee Monday to asked about the implications of the assassination attempt on the election, and Trump’s selection of Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, for vice president.

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Allison Huynh was a fundraiser for then-Sen. Barack Obama before he was elected president in 2008, but she now supports former President Donald Trump.

Huynh (pronounced like “win”) and her husband were attracted to Obama’s message of “hope and change” in 2007.

“It was the hope and the image that he projected” that led Huynh to not only support Obama herself in the 2008 election, but encourage others to do likewise.

As an entrepreneur and successful computer scientist in Silicon Valley in California, Huynh hosted fundraising dinners for Obama with tickets costing $50,000 a plate. But after Obama won the election and took office in 2009, Huynh says, disillusionment began to set in.

A Vietnamese immigrant, Huynh says the disillusionment “started with Barack Obama and this lack of logic in terms of how he led,” but it didn't end there.

Huynh calls diversity, equity, and inclusion “Marxist and doublespeak” because “equity is what you get when you work for something.”

Equity is not won because of the “color of your skin” or “identity politics,” Huynh contends. “This doesn't make sense. It erodes away from what it is to be an American, right?”

Asked why she is now supporting Trump, Huynh says that after meeting Trump, she found him “very open” to considering policies that serve tech entrepreneurs like her.

Huynh joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee to share her story of disillusionment with the Democratic Party.

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

• Nikki Haley endorses Trump at the RNC.
• Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle says her agency was “solely responsible” for security at the rally where former President Donald Trump was shot.
• The Biden administration intervenes in a House Oversight Committee investigation into the Secret Service.
• NBC omits the part of Joe Biden’s interview with Lester Holt where the president scolded Holt for enabling Trump.
• President Joe Biden is expected to endorse drastic changes to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/07/17/nbc-omits-biden-scolding-lester-holt-as-a-trump-enabler/

https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/07/17/biden-reportedly-plans-to-back-measures-limiting-supreme-court/

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