Police should have been atop roof where Trump’s attempted assassin tried his kill: Dan Bongino

Two FBI investigators scan the roof of AGR International Inc, the building adjacent to the Butler Fairgrounds, from which alleged shooter Matthew Thomas Crooks fired at former President Donald J. Trump, in the aftermath of the attempted assassination at a campaign rally on July 14, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Dan Bongino, a political radio and TV commentator who was a Secret Service agent for more than 10 years, said the rooftop spot where Thomas Matthew Crooks tried to assassinate Donald Trump should have been occupied by law enforcement.

"According to my source, that roof was supposed to be a police post... [there] was so supposed to be someone there," Bongino said on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast “Triggered” on Tuesday from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

"They're now making up excuses saying the pitch of the roof. My source says to me that no one knows why the post didn't show up."

"I was also told that the USSS director has been given instructions from the administration and the DHS secretary: 'If you wanna keep your job, you'll keep your mouth shut about this.'"

Bongino told Trump Jr. that a person not showing up for their respective post “could have gotten your dad killed, within millimeters.”

The former president was shot in his upper right ear and a rallygoer was killed. Crooks was killed during a gunfire exchange.