Former United States Secret Service agents Evy Poumpouras and Dan Bongino independently analyzed apparent security lapses that might have facilitated the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.

“This is obviously an abysmal failure, nobody should ever try to cover for this,” Bongino, an agent formerly assigned to protect Presidents Bush and Obama and host of “The Dan Bongino Show,” said on Sunday. “I have a lot of loyalty to my colleagues at the Secret Service. Their motto is ‘Worthy of Trust and Confidence.’ However, this is an abysmal failure. There’s no excusing that at this point.” He also wondered aloud how the shooter bypassed the magnetometers, devices designed to detect weapons and metal.

Poumpouras, a former agent tasked with protecting President Obama and the first lady, and now the host of “Spy Games,” suggested that the shooter likely took position only after Trump appeared on stage. She also pointed out that the assailant, identified by the FBI as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, seemed to be wearing camouflage that matched the roof’s color where he was positioned, as she discussed on NBC’s “Today” show Sunday morning.

According to multiple reports, the Secret Service quickly neutralized the 2o-year-old shooter following his assassination attempt. Poumpouras and Bongino remarked that the steel armor in front of the podium, which the Secret Service used to shield Trump immediately after the shooting, likely saved his life.

“The armor may have saved him, ladies and gentlemen. If you look on the stage, that what appears to be the — you know, looks ceremonial — you see it looks kind of like a flag design with the red, white and blue. That’s likely armor. There’s a darn good chance that that armor possibly saved him,” Bongino noted.

Poumpouras appeared to agree.

“So if we just break this down as the shooting is happening, we hear the shots being fired. President Trump goes down, he takes cover, and it’s also very likely,  when you look at that banner — there’s like this banner around that stage — that tends to be some type of steel that’s there by design for an incident like this so that the protectee can hit the ground and take cover. We see the agents come in now from the sides. That’s the ‘shift.’ That’s what’s called the ‘shift.’ They come in and they are the armor. They’re the ones who are literally gonna come around, they’re going to secure his body,” Poumpouras said.