WASHINGTON DC, July 26 -- Robert B. Charles, better known as Bobby at the Association of Mature American Citizens, is a prolific writer focusing on current events. He served on the staffs of President Ronald Reagan and President George H. W. Bush; he served as Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell and as counsel to the U.S. House National Security subcommittee for five years; a former litigator, he taught law at Harvard University’s Extension School. In an interview with Rebecca Weber on her Better For America podcast he provided insight into events that shook our nation.
Bobby’s take on the recent attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump was that Kimberly Cheatle, Director of the U.S. Secret Service, was to blame. Indeed, she resigned earlier this week.
“There is no way with an open rooftop within very short firing range, knowing that this guy is on the roof and no one taking him out,” he said. “Obviously there was a failure of communications between those that knew he was there, including law enforcement and the snipers that had him or would have had him in their sights, or should have had him in their sights. It should have been a cleared location long before the event. It should never have even been able to get set up.”
Bobby went on to note that “this is not the Secret Service that I knew under Reagan. under Bush 41 or under Bush 43. The Secret Service was and should be considered the elite law enforcement agency. I've worked with ATF, DEA, FBI, and I know these Secret Service guys. They are the best of the best traditionally. So, either the training has fallen down or there's no priority when it comes to Donald Trump. They put agents there, they're in training or something, but there's no priority. You know, things roll downhill and if the leader of the organization is not inspired and focused and selfless and directed, that flows all the way down to the field level. So I will tell you fundamentally that first shot should never have gotten off and, secondly, the response in my view was subpar.”
He went on to focus on the need to turn the rhetoric down and to stop the talk that inspires political violence. Bobby pointed out that AMAC has long been focusing on the need to stop the talk. “We have been very methodical in article after article saying this is dangerous; it leads to a bad place. Think about the sequence of events after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. You had a speaker of the House and a Majority Leader pushing violence in the streets. We almost had a Supreme court justice assassinated. We have heard again and again the behaviors on the part of President Biden.”
Bobby went on to note that President Biden “set up a press conference in which he bathed himself in red light. He used the words enemies of the people to describe MAGA Republicans and ultimately half of the nation who had voted for Donald Trump. This is the exact language that was used by the Bolsheviks at the beginning of the last century. It is the exact language that was used in the French revolution, which stirred violence all over that country. How he could have even begun to think about doing that I can't even imagine. But the demonization of Donald Trump has been a methodical, progressive, ongoing event such that just a couple of weeks ago you had Joseph Biden saying that there ought to be a target on President Trump's back.”
John Grimaldi served on the first non-partisan communications department in the New York State Assembly and is a founding member of the Board of Directors of Priva Technologies, Inc. He has served for more than thirty years as a Trustee of Daytop Village Foundation, which oversees a worldwide drug rehabilitation network.
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