Americans were horrified this past weekend by an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in which one of his supporters was killed and two others were wounded.

While many were baffled that the shooter wasn't stopped earlier, one veteran sniper believes the attack was an inside job. 

"I have no doubts in my mind"

As the Daily Mail noted on Monday, musician and former Canadian soldier Dallas Alexander was part of a sniper team that set a world record in 2017 by taking out an ISIS terrorist from 3.54 kilometers away.

"I'm very familiar with the layout of these types of things and what the job should be, and yesterday what happened," said Alexander, who has helped provide security for Canada's prime minister.

"I have no doubts in my mind that the shooter had help from somewhere within an agency, an organization or the government," he told the Daily Mail.

"The second I saw that aerial photo of what they said happened - it immediately made no sense to me," the newspaper quoted him as saying.

"You cannot, in broad daylight, get onto a rooftop within, what looked like a couple hundred yards if that [of the president]. You can't get in that position with a gun when there's a president speaking. It cannot be done," Alexander insisted.

"Like, you don't even have to be a sniper - it's the most f--king obvious thing, most obvious place in the whole world," he continued.

"You could be like a seventh-grader - like 'What do we have to do for security?' Well, let's look at these rooftops that are almost within zeroing range of a rifle," Alexander stressed.

"So something happened, and I'm not pointing fingers at anyone. It's just too obvious that this guy had help getting there," the former sniper asserted.

"So whether it's someone turned a blind eye or it was strategically planned, it had to be planned to a certain level,  because events like that, security like that, it's not a small thing - and that is an obvious place to be," Alexander concluded.

Allegations that Secret Service diverted resources to guard Jill Biden

Meanwhile, Newsweek reported that the Secret Service denied allegations it had diverted resources away from Trump to protect an event hosted by First Lady Jill Biden.

This is the problem that my Secret Sources have cited: Secret Services resources were diverted to Jill Biden's event and away from Trump's because they followed agency protocol applying to Trump as a former president, according to two sources within the Secret Service community.… pic.twitter.com/9MzmS6Bia7

— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) July 14, 2024

That allegation was leveled on Sunday by Real Clear Politics contributor Susan Crabtree who cited sources within the law enforcement agency.