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He characterized the incidents as "gross incompetence," highlighting how an untrained teenager was able to get within 200 meters of the President with a rifle. Schlichter expressed disbelief at the delay—over a year—in addressing these failures and emphasized that such lapses point to a systemic problem. In his words, it was an incident that nearly cost the President's life and resulted in the injury and death of American citizens due to sheer negligence.