Quote Originally Posted by poop
I mean after the fact, when I hear the story that a guy got on a roof 150m away and shot at Trump, my first thought was "how the fck did they let him get to a primo firing spot?"
I imagine that was everyone's first thought.

Then when I hear that he was identified as a threat, and hear that Trump was let out of his clown car anyways, my first thought was "umm, isn't their job to keep him alive?"
I mean, there's going to be more than two categories of "threat" and "not a threat". Someone acting suspicious with what might or might not be a range finder is a different world of "threat" to someone crawling on a roof with a rifle.

If they've seen the kid on the roof and still let Trump out, I would agree that's not something that can be put down to simple complacency. If they've seen him with a range finder and not really understood the potential gravity of the situation, then this is still bad but at least potentially a good-faith error of judgement, rather than ulterior motive.