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Who said all of the drama at conventions takes place on the stage? Not to mention the entertainment, because this video taken last night certainly has that quality, for those still angry over Secret Service failures in Butler County on Saturday.
For some reason, embattled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle showed up on the convention floor during the prime-time program. Senate Republicans Marsha Blackburn and John Barrasso confronted Cheatle and began demanding answers from her about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, with a Blackburn aide recording the interaction. Cheatle told them that she didn’t want to have that conversation on the convention floor, and then made clear she didn’t want to have it at all:
A stunning scene played out at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday as a group of GOP senators chased Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle through the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, shouting that she has refused to answer questions regarding the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
“This was an assassination attempt! You owe the people answers. You owe president Trump answers!” Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn shouted at Cheatle, who continued to walk with her head down and ignore the senators’ criticism.
“It’s stonewalling!” Sen. John Barrasso, the No. 3 Senate Republican.
This morning, the USSS put out a statement about this confrontation that says, well . nothing much at all:
Statement from Secret Service on Senators demanding questions from Director CHEATLE at RNC — pic.twitter.com/hOgEfnElLm— Aishah Hasnie (@aishahhasnie) July 18, 2024
That’s as helpful as Cheatle’s own answers have been. Cheatle insists on one hand that the buck stops with her, and then on the other hand that she deserves to keep her job even after the abject failure that took place Saturday afternoon in Pennsylvania. The Secret Service allowed a shooter well within a perimeter to get at least three shots off at a former president, and Cheatle has offered nothing more than a series of weird excuses for it — including a heretofore unknown Kryptonite of slightly sloped roofs.
