Quote from: bbc.reporter on Today at 01:48:42 AM

The assasinator and these people who might have supported this plan to kill Donald Trump have only given him the presidency. We can be very much certain that his ratings in the polls will pump very much similar to a memecoin with a very long green line to the moon hehehehehh. This is quite headshaking for Joe Biden and the Democrats. They have no more chance if they kill or imprison Trump. If they do these there will be civil war.

He definitely got a boost but at the same time the tensions are increasing in USA. Everyone is blaming everyone these days. I even updated my US Civil War topic in the politics board with new predictions.

Quote from: hd49728 on Today at 05:25:51 AM

These two men agents even used binoculars to observe the 'potential' shooter but did not take any action to eliminate this threat.

By many guidelines for Secret Agents, they must take action immediately so this assassination is a serious failure of this Secret Service team.

Actually what I gathered is that they are NOT allowed to shoot anybody who has a gun on a rooftop.

That's because these things are a mess in US. There are multiple agencies involved and the poor sniper on the roof can not know whether the other sniper on the other roof is another agent from another agency or an assassin. So for example if the Secret Service guy just opens fire on first sight he may end up shooting like an FBI agent and end up in a prison himself!

So they have to first check with their boss who has to then check with other agencies to see who the hell is on that roof. By the time they're done checking minutes have passed and the assassin has already done what he was there to do.
Which is what happened here as well.