Ex-Director Cheatle’s bewildering comments following the Butler, Pa., assassination attempt, combined with her inept testimony before Congress, have proved troubling for the nation.
«The assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on July 13th is the most significant operational failure at the Secret Service in decades.»
These are not my words: This is from former Secret Service Director Kimberley Cheatle’s opening testimony at Monday’s hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
One would think that Cheatle had done her research to know every detail of the events of that day; however, her testimony suggested the total opposite. Former Director Cheatle provided nonsensical, incoherent, and unsubstantive answers to basic questions from my colleagues and me on both sides of the aisle.
I’m glad to see former Director Cheatle tender her resignation on Tuesday. In truth, I would have liked to have seen her fired instead. Accountability starts from the top, and we must take a hard look at the failures that led to President Trump’s near-assassination at the hands of a 20-year-old, untrained loner.
Former Director Cheatle’s bewildering comments immediately following the Butler, Pa., assassination attempt, combined with her inept testimony before Congress, have proved troubling for the nation.
For example, the day after the assassination attempt, Cheatle made an objectively preposterous comment when explaining why the shooter’s building was not manned with agents or any other law enforcement entity, stating, «That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point; there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof.
