"Malice Or Massive Incompetence" Detailed Assessment Of Secret Service Failure- ZH

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• Congress probes Secret Service failures in Trump assassination attempt (CNN).*1

  • "Malice Or Massive Incompetence": Erik Prince Gives Detailed Assessment Of Secret Service Failure

  • Democratic focus shifts from Biden's candidacy to security after Trump's assassination attempt (Axios).*

  • Dem congressman says staff member no longer employed for ‘don’t miss next time’ post after Trump shooting (FOX).

• Details emerge about 20-year-old who attempted assassination on Trump (AP).2

  • Local officer encountered gunman just before he shot toward Trump at rally: sources (AP).

  • Search for Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks’ motive delayed by explosives found in home and car: sources (NYP).

  • Pentagon confirms suspected Trump rally shooter has no known military background (ABC).

  • Phone of alleged would-be Trump assassin flown to Quantico lab (NBC).

  • FBI confirms belief is weapon was purchased by the shooter’s father (FOX).

• Attempted assassination witness tells BBC he saw shooter on roof, warned police (raw).

  • New video shows people trying to warn police before gunman opened fire at Trump rally (raw).

  • Witness at Trump rally says he tried to warn police about the shooter (raw).

• Rooftop where gunman shot at Trump was identified as a security vulnerability before rally: sources (NBC).

• Conspiracy theories emerge among Democratic elites on Trump shooting (The Bias).*3

• Russia: ‘Trump has Biden’s balls in his hand’ (The Daily Beast).

• Republicans blame Democrats for attack on Trump (Semafor).

  • For years, Trump’s aides feared ‘inevitable’ assassination attempt (Semafor).

  • Biden campaign suspends all outbound communications after Trump assassination attempt (CBS).

• Elon Musk fuels Trump’s swing state efforts, enhancing political clout (Bloomberg).*

  • Musk formally endorses Trump moments after rally shooting (CNBC).

  • Musk agrees Trump needs to pick Vance for ‘assassination insurance’ (raw).

  • Bezos praises Trump’s ‘tremendous grace and courage under literal fire’ (raw).

• Biden embraces defiance amid media scrutiny: A Trumpian echo (The New Yorker).*4

  • Audio clips from interview that Biden campaign had Milwaukee radio station censor revealed (raw).

  • Biden campaign has long fed softball questions to friendly interviewers (NYT).

  • Biden’s call with Hispanic lawmakers goes off the rails (NOTUS).

  • ‘Stay positive. You are sounding defensive’: Biden passed note with advice during call with Congressional Progressive Caucus before reading it aloud (Punchbowl).

  • 24 former Dem lawmakers to Biden: Allow an open convention (Politico).

• ICE Pact aims to counter Russian and Chinese influence in Arctic with new icebreaker fleet (TWZ).*5

• Meta rolls back Trump account restrictions ahead of 2024 Election for policy parity (Axios).*6

• Trump aides mull Apprentice-style VP reveal at convention (Politico).7

  • The unusual legal risk Trump will have to navigate at the RNC (Politico).

  • Republican Party tightens rules to limit platform protests amid anti-abortion activist concerns (Semafor).*

  • After saying she wouldn't be there, Nikki Haley will now speak at Republican convention (NPR).

• Majority of Americans now favor reducing immigration amid border crisis concerns (Gallup).*8

• Utah Supreme Court upholds citizen rights in landmark ruling on redistricting initiative (Bolts).*9

• Election deniers influence grows as Nevada commissioner rejects own victory certification (The Bias).*10

• Judge dismisses Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter case mid-trial over withheld evidence (AP).*11

• Musk accuses EU of offering secret censorship deal, threatens legal action over Digital Services Act charges (The Bias).*12

• OpenAI’s secretive ‘Strawberry’ project targets advanced AI reasoning and autonomous research (Reuters).*13

  • OpenAI whistleblowers ask SEC to investigate alleged restrictive non-disclosure agreements (Reuters).*24

• Liquid oxygen leak causes SpaceX's first launch failure since 2015 (AP).*14

• AT&T confirms major data breach, phone and text records compromised (CyberScoop).*15

  • Disney’s internal Slack breached? NullBulge leaks 1.1 TiB of data (Hackread).

  • Rite Aid breached (again) according to new ransomware claim (CyberNews).

  • The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf listed as victim by INC Ransom (HackManac).

• Russian army faces record losses amid new Kharkiv offensive, UK Defense Ministry reports (Politico).*16

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