10 Mind blowing facts about the assassination attempts on then President Obama they never told you about!

1. Did you know that President Obama faced nearly four times as many threats as previous presidents, even before he took office? The Secret Service was very concerned about the surge in threats against the president-elect.
2. Did you know that some of the threats against Obama were so disturbing they could not be publicly repeated, including talk of lynching and shooting him?
3. Did you know that a group of white supremacists in Denver allegedly plotted to assassinate Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign, but were arrested before they could carry out the attack?
4. Did you know that two other white supremacists, Paul Schlesselman and Daniel Cowart,
   
   
   planned a drive-by shooting against candidate Obama in 2008, but were also arrested before taking action?
5. Did you know that in November 2011, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez fired seven shots at the White House with a semi-automatic rifle, believing Obama was the Antichrist, causing $97,000 in damage before being arrested two years later?
6. Did you know that the Secret Service was initially unaware Ortega-Hernandez had actually hit the White House, and it took several days for a housekeeper to discover the broken glass on the Truman Balcony?
7. Did you know that a lawsuit by black Secret Service agents revealed disturbing racist behavior and jokes by top supervisors about how to get Jesse Jackson killed and make sexual comments about black agents?
8. Did you know that the Secret Service struggled to keep up with the surge in threats against Obama, lacking basic surveillance cameras and technology to track gunshots near the White House?
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   Did you know that Obama received 30 potential death threats per day on average, most of which were from pranksters or the mentally ill, but each one had to be investigated?
10. Did you know that despite the unprecedented number of threats, only five serious assassination attempts against Obama were ever publicly disclosed by authorities?

11. Did you know that there has been more assassination attemps made on  President Barack Obama than any other President?

    
    
    

    
    

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