(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Senators and attendees of the Republican National Convention swarmed Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle at the conference on Wednesday, demanding answers on the apparent incompetence of the agency and insisting she resign in disgrace, according to Townhall.
After the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday, investigations revealed several security lapses, which Cheatle excused very poorly.
Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle said no Agents were on the roof where the shooter was because it was a sloped roof and it was a safety factor. Call out the liar. The roof the shooter was on was more flat than the roof the Secret Services members were on. @FoxNews @kilmeade pic.twitter.com/s8DvOJSUT1
— Tom John (@Going63) July 16, 2024
Convention-goers rightfully had several questions about both the sloped roof and several other inconsistencies with the crime, and aired them when Cheatle arrived at the convention.
A group of senators, including Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. and John Barasso, R-Wyo., walked through the timeline of the assassination in an attempt to get some answers.
Cheatle tried to make a break for it, walking up a steeply sloped set of stairs without issue in order to get away from the questioning.
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Here’s another angle of Senator Marsha Blackburn and her colleagues calling out the @SecretService Director Kim Cheatle for running away from accountability regarding the attempted assassination of President Trump.
It was great to see this tonight at the RNC! https://t.co/NPTkSnxmH4 pic.twitter.com/7bk0shUGW8
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) July 18, 2024
Many of the questions had to do with the timeline of the shooting. The would-be assassin, 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, was recognized as a suspicious person an hour before the shooting.
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee launched an investigation into the assassination attempt, issuing a subpoena requesting Cheatle appear before the committee.
Cheatle said she will attend the hearing.
Amid all the other revelations, a briefing by the Secret Service admitted that they identified Crooks as a threat 10 minutes before Trump took the stage.
They did not tell him about the threat and allowed him to take the stage.
BREAKING: Secret Service tells Congress they identified Thomas Crooks as a threat at least 10 minutes before Trump walked on stage.
Trump camp was not notified.
The Secret Service agent-in-charge was on the phone with local police as the shooting broke out.
Unacceptable. pic.twitter.com/hTyaS6P1OW
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 17, 2024
The Secret Service agent in charge of security for the rally was on the phone with local and state police as the shooting took place.
Crooks also visited the rally site the day before the event.
Despite the confrontation between Cheatle and the senators at the convention, some people claimed that the Senate should also be held responsible for allowing the Biden administration to run amok these last four years.
“[The Senate] created arrogant, inept, defiant apparatchiks like Kim Cheatle,” said Julie Kelly of RealClear Investigations in a Twitter post. “By abdicating their oversight duties they have empowered the Kim Cheatles and Alejandro Mayorkases and the Merrick Garlands and the Chris Wrays to name a few. Even worse, in many cases, they protected them.”
So I have a little different take on this performance.
The reason why Kim Cheatle is entrenched and nonresponsive and hubristic is because the Senate GOP has done nothing–absolutely nothing–to rein in the out-of-control Biden regime.
These same clowns have prioritized funding… https://t.co/0e9fsHv0Qk
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) July 18, 2024
