The Secret Service director is being questioned on Capitol Hill about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump — and she’s acknowledging that the Secret Service screwed up.
Kimberly Cheatle is in the middle of testifying before the House Oversight Committee — and from the beginning, she has taken full responsibility for the former president’s near-death… saying the agency failed in its duty to protect DT.
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Specifically, she called the incident “the most significant operational failure” in the Secret Service in decades.
Amid calls for his resignation, Cheatle vowed he would move heaven and earth to ensure an incident like this never happens again. Despite previously pointing the finger at local police in post-shooting interviews, Cheatle backtracked here in his testimony, expressing support for law enforcement at both the local and federal levels.
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07/16/24
ABC
KC also said changes would occur at the agency well before the investigation into the attempted assassination is concluded.
As U.S. representatives pressed Cheatle with questions, she danced around explaining why the Secret Service had no one stationed on the roof of the rally.
However, she confirmed the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crookswas identified as a suspicious person prior to the shooting…but noted that he had not been labeled a “threat.”
Cheater first spoke about the attack during a conversation with ABC News correspondent Peter Thomas …where she called the whole ordeal “unacceptable.”
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07/13/24
She said the assassination attempt was ultimately hers — as she made clear the shooter should never have been allowed on the roof of Trump’s rally. She confirmed a review would come after the assassination attempt — which left Trump shot in the ear and another dead.
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07/13/24
TMZ.com
As we reported… Crooks was shot and killed by Secret Service agents after opening fire on a crowd in Butler, Pennsylvania, with an AR-15-style rifle.
Although Cheatle defended the entire scene that unfolded in a short period of time, several reports claim that he was seen on the roof 20 minutes before firing the first shot.
Members of Congress have a lot of questions for her — we’ll see what she has to say.