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What does Biden have to do with it? He doesn't control the secret service, and I doubt the Secret Service was in on it anyway.
This was just another incompetent MAGA operation, that barely came off, and didn't have nearly the result they expected. They though America would be so outraged at an attack on our beloved president, that we would come together and vote for him on a landslide.
Instead, there was overwhelming disappointment that we didn't get to see his onhead explode on TV, and so they had to go with their first plan to steal the election by flipping votes.
Ah, so this was a planned operation with Trump in on it, but entirely relied on the secret service being incredibly incompetent and getting incredibly lucky. Because the guy who managed to get elected president twice despite being in the Epstein files and in the middle of multiple prosecutions is so incompetent he let some random psycho shoot around him with no plan...
Yeah, that's pretty much the story. Why would you be surprised? This is MAGA, that's their normal level of virtuosic incompetence.
As for the Secret Service, don't give them too much credit. Their best work is done in advance, eliminating threats before they manifest. But when they do have an actual direct attack on POTUS, their record isn't really that great. Reagan? Shot. Ford? Poor aim, not SS, twice. JFK? Shot. And then you go back to the old ones, like Teddy Roosevelt getting shot and giving his speech anyway.
I can't think of a single assassination attempt that was thwarted on the scene by the Secret Service. Even if they did, those incidents are outnumbered by their many failures.
Don't forget, they also critically wounded one MAGA, and literally blew the head off another MAGA. An independent investigation is called for.
Putting aside that you are comparing the secret service from 45+ years ago vs today. A lot of the time when they do their job, you will never know. How many times did someone with a gun see agents guarding the approach they wanted to use and turned around, no one ever knowing? If there was an officer guarding the roof as there should have been, chances are we never hear of this incident.