Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle gave a bizarre explanation for why Donald Trump’s would-be assassin managed to get on a nearby roof, ABC News reports.
Said Cheatle: “That building in particular has a sloped roof, at its highest point. And so there’s a safety factor that would be considered that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof. And so the decision was made to secure the building from inside.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.