Donald Trump‘s Secret Service element is catching warmth for a safety failure after he was shot — and an ex-agent who labored with him has ideas on how they might’ve prevented this.

Mike de Geus — who labored for the Secret Service in the course of the Trump years, and who used to guard the previous President — tells TMZ there have been a whole lot of issues he noticed with the best way the Secret Service dealt with issues Saturday, together with a number of evident points they missed.

He factors out that there are quite simple issues the company might’ve accomplished to block off the clear line of sight Thomas Matthew Crooks had from a constructing exterior the perimeter … even when that technically wasn’t throughout the Secret Service’s ring of safety.

Mike says they need to’ve seen the constructing Crooks perched himself on had a direct line to Trump — and he suggests there are easy issues they might’ve accomplished forward of time to block that clear path … together with rolling out automobiles, and even turning the stage.

While he says they missed alternatives to defend Trump, he does notice they did the best factor by getting him out of there comparatively slowly.

That would possibly sound counterproductive, however Mike factors out the Secret Service had to be sure that Trump wasn’t bleeding past simply his ear grazing, so he provides them credit score there.

Now, on the difficulty of the brokers themselves — one thing else that is come below a microscope — Mike does say he feels a few of the brokers would possibly’ve not been the perfect choices to defend a man as massive as Trump. The much-smaller feminine agent comes to thoughts right here.

He believes the brokers ought to be bodily able to carrying whoever they’re tasked with shielding — and, a minimum of to the attention, it is unclear if all of the brokers on his Saturday element have been proper for that particular state of affairs.

Big image … Mike thinks the Secret Service has slipped a bit in high quality — and whereas he cannot pin down why that is likely to be, he thinks this incident is a come-to-Jesus second.

Interesting perception from a man who used to do that job, little doubt.