Quote Originally Posted by poop
You're arguing that the Deep State decided to leave a giant black hole in their security one day just on the off chance someone might come along and decide to off Trump, and then that someone came along that very day and decided to do it, is the more plausible scenario here?
No. You're filling in gaps with nonsense rather than more logical assumptions. What you say here is indeed highly unlikely, and as ridiculous as what you were speculating.

What is viable are these two possibilities...
1) that one or maybe even two security guys turned a blind eye until shots were fired. Individual(s) deciding on the spot to "stand down", rather than a plan.
2) they were is a state of "stand down" for every event of Trumps they were contracted for, and finally someone had a pop at him but fucked it up.

I still think complacency is the most likely. It's still dodgy but a series of failings at the wrong time is all it takes, especially if there are multiple failed attempts we don't know about. Apparently the gun that took the shooter's head off was capable of doing so from a much further distance. So, perhaps the security snipers were complacent in that they thought closer buildings were secure, and the threat would come from further away. I'm just speculating here, I really don't know what to believe, but that, along with those two "stand down" ideas, seem more plausible to me than anything else I've seen suggested.