Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies Monday before the House Oversight Committee.
Cheatle, who faces calls to resign, is speaking out about his agency’s handling of the shooting at Trump’s July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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Former President Trump was shot in the ear during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)
“She came here to see me. Well, I mean, she literally came out fine. She was very kind, I thought. But you know, someone deserved to have made sure there was no one on that roof,” Trump said. “That ceiling was a dead target on the stage. And they said they didn’t have the manpower for it, which is crazy. They said 130 yards was like making a one-foot putt. This is considered to be very close.
So, I don’t know. Someone gave him false information when he talked about the slope of the roof.
“I consider her very nice. But you know, you have to answer why I couldn’t stay off level for five minutes while they do their job,” she continued. “Why couldn’t I, you know, how do you put up a stage where a ceiling that’s obviously visible from where I’m talking, why wouldn’t someone have noticed it?”
United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability at a hearing at the Rayburn House office building on July 22, 2024, in Washington, D. C. Cheatle has pledged to cooperate with all investigations into the company following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Cheatle testified before the House Oversight Committee, chaired by Chairman James Comer, R-Ky. , after subpoenaing her.
Cheatle testified before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, more than a week after a would-be assassin, Thomas Crooks, tried to kill Trump at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.
Trump, his rally, turned his head slightly, narrowly avoiding the bullet fired by the 20-year-old suspect Crooks’ AR-15-style rifle by just a quarter of an inch. The bullet hit him in the upper part of the right ear.
Kimberly Cheatle testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee
The bullet killed firefighter, father and husband Corey Comperatore while protecting his family from gunfire and seriously injured two other people.
Cheatle admitted under oath that the Secret Service “failed on July 13. ”
Read the five moments here:
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
Representative Jasmine Crockett argued that among law enforcement, “there is no belief of risk when it comes to a young white man, even if he is carrying a gun. ” shoulder”.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, seemed to intuit that racial bias might simply be the explanation for why the Secret Service was slow to see Thomas Crooks as a risk the day it shot Trump.
“I need to communicate about education and I need to communicate about the fact that there has been a bit of buzz around the fact that this is a suspicious user and a scenario that has been perceived as a threat, and it turns out like another investigation is happening. ” Crockett argued. “One of my questions is whether your agents are trained in bias. “
Learn Crockett’s implications for “racial bias. “
Former President Donald Trump, left, and President Joe Biden.
Former President Trump said that when he spoke to President Biden after firing, the president said Trump was lucky to move to the right.
Trump was a guest on “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Monday night, when the host asked the former president about his call with Biden after shooting.
“It’s good. It’s a lovely conversation,” Trump said. He said you were lucky to have turned right. Then. . . Obviously, someone informed him. But he told me. He said, “You’re lucky you turned right. ” I said, “I think so. “
“Well, maybe me,” Trump said. “Certainly, to some extent, that would be the case. Wouldn’t that be nice?
Republican candidate Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face surrounded by Secret Service agents as he is led away from a campaign event at Butler Farm Show Inc. in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. (Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images))
Former President Trump recounted his brush with death while speaking to Fox News’ Jesse Watters on Monday, saying he refused to be put on a gurney after being shot in the ear at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.
“Bien. Es much better. We’re getting to the little bandages, but it’s nasty and unpleasant, period. That was precisely a week from today. Precisely,” Trump said.
His vice presidential candidate, J. D. Vance, joined Trump, who was asked by Watters if he had noticed the injury.
“I didn’t. No, I won’t. Although I find it hysterical, Jesse, that those other people are wondering, ‘Why is the president dressed in bandages over his ears?'” said Vance. “He shot him in the ear. And those are the same other people who were dressed in masks, of course, five years after COVID. So it’s pretty ridiculous.
Trump said he refused to be carried away on a stretcher.
Kimberly Cheatle, director of the United States Secret Service, and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla. (Getty Images)
Luna and other committee members had a chance to ask Cheatle questions related to the security breach that nearly led to Trump’s death at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.
During cross-examination, Luna told the principal that he felt he had committed perjury with some of the answers he had given, and asked the committee’s chairman, James Comer, to do a full review of the transcripts and file perjury charges against Cheatle if I found that he had not told the principal. oath of truth.
Many lawmakers from the Democratic and Republican parties have chastised Cheatle for not answering many questions and blocking them.
Luna took to social media after the hearing to give his opinion on the shooting investigation.
Luna’s office did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for more details about what he is referring to in his post.
Rep. Gimenez wrote in X: “I’m 70 years old, if I could climb that roof, anyone could. “(Rep. Carlos A. Giménez through X)
Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla. , is part of a two-component delegation of committee members who visited the Butler Farm fairgrounds on Monday, where members climbed the same glass factory construction as Thomas Crooks before attacking former President Trump last time. week.
Gimenez said he has been frustrated with the Department of Homeland Security for some time, over the porous border and now its subordinate agency, the Secret Service, in its handling of the Trump rally.
“So what bothers me, and the explanation for why I went up on the roof — I’m 70 years old — is that the director said, ‘Well, the slope of the roof probably wouldn’t allow Secret Service agents to let ‘there’ — that was the final straw for me. “
See the views of Giménez’s “slanted roof. ”
Fox News’ Charles Creitz and Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla. , is calling on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign from her post, as the attempted assassination of former President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, constituted domestic terrorism and an attack on the United States.
Moskowitz and a bipartisan organization of lawmakers called on Cheatle to resign because of a breach of the main security points and for failing to answer questions about the failure to comply with the main security points.
“The former president was almost assassinated and she said, ‘Well, I’m not going to resign. ‘ Well, okay. What I wanted to see was where is that line for her? If she had been successful, would she have resigned? And she said that No. And then what she made clear to me is that she is not willing to take responsibility. ” Moskowitz told Cavuto.
The lawmaker said he asked Cheatle to dedicate himself to firing the culprits once the investigation is complete, adding that she will not be doing so.
“At that point, it became clear to me that the user who needed to be fired fired fired her,” Moskowitz said.
“Seeing this point of bipartisan outrage, for her performance and the lack of information she is willing to provide to the committee. That is why I am also calling for the creation of a commission. We will have to make sure that this does not happen again,” he said.
Mark E. Green (R-TN), Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, speaks to the press alongside U. S. officials at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania, Monday, July 22, 2024. An organization bipartisan lawmakers vid the of The former president’s attempt to assassinate Donald Trump that left one dead and two injured at a crusade rally last week. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, along with bipartisan members of the committee, visited the grounds of the Butler Farm Show where 20-year-old Thomas Crooks attempted to assassinate Trump more than two years ago on Monday morning. ‘A week.
Green, an Army veteran, said it was an example of a lack of communication between local and federal law enforcement, adding that lawmakers were also racing to get more data on which radios law enforcement would be speaking on the day. of the demonstration.
Learn more about what members of Congress do in Butler, Pennsylvania.
United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle arrives to testify about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a crusade in Pennsylvania before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, on Capitol Hill, Monday, July 22, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)
Rep. Russell Fry, R-S. C. , joined a developing list of bipartisan lawmakers calling on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign from her position after a botched security detail at a rally in Butler , Pennsylvania, which almost led to the old man’s death. murder. President Trump.
Fry berated the principal when he had the chance, berating him for what she couldn’t or refusing to respond.
“He couldn’t answer the number of officers, whether or not requests for increased security were denied, whether law enforcement was able to interact with the killer before the shooting, how he was pinned to the roof, how the gun was recovered on the roof. . . . ” Fry told Cheatle: “You can’t tell us how many shots he fired, [or] whether the casings were recovered. You can’t tell us anything about his mobile phone.
He went on to say that Cheatle may simply not respond if the demonstration was intended to be postponed, if the shooter’s car had a bomb on it, or what the shooter’s reason was.
Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N. Y. (Al Drago/Bloomberg Getty Images)
Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N. Y. , on Monday called on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign from her post, saying her “lack of accountability and transparency” since the attempted assassination of former President Trump “has only added insult to injury. “»
“The security failures surrounding the attempted assassination of the former president are so glaring that the only appropriate end result is the resignation or removal of Director Cheatle, whose lack of accountability and transparency since the July 13 shooting has only added salt to injury,” Torres said. We will have to set an example for those who fail as catastrophically as Director Cheatle did. “
Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, told Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to fire her and “return to Doritos’ custody,” after saying she reenacted the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting and fired 8 bullets, resulting in 15 of 15. shots. 16 fatal shots.
“So I fired 8 shots at any one of them,” Fallon said. “Do you know what the result is? 15 fatal shots out of 16. And the one I missed would have hit the president in the ear. This represents a good fortune rate of 94%. And this shooter is a better shooter than me.
Fallon told Cheatle it was a miracle Trump hadn’t killed that day.
“It was a crazy task on the roof. You know what else is dangerous?Your terrible incompetence and lack of competent leadership is a disgrace,” Fallon said. “Your apparent skating today is shameful and you deserve to be fired without delay. “and pass back to protect Doritos. ”
An undated log photograph of Thomas Matthew Crooks. (Obtained via Fox News Digital)
The Steam account that allegedly belonged to Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Crooks did belong to him, according to a federal law enforcement source.
The original reports came from multiple sources from an FBI briefing to lawmakers that suggested Crooks, 20, had written in an article earlier this month: “July 13th will be my Prime Minister, see how this goes” .
Three Senate offices showed all the information and two more offices showed portions of the reports.
Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich contributed to this report.
Reps. James Comer and Jamie Raskin of the House Oversight Committee on Monday called for the resignation of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle. (REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt / Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images / Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc Getty Images)
President James Comer and qualifying member Jamie Raskin sent a letter to Cheatle on Monday, after he testified before the committee.
“On July 13, 2024, the United States Secret Service, under your leadership, failed former President Donald Trump in an assassination attempt that claimed the life of Corey Comperatore and seriously injured at least two other individuals,” the letter reads. to provide answers to the basic questions related to this staggering operational failure and to assure the American public that the Secret Service has learned its lessons and has begun to correct its systemic errors and failures.
The director of the United States Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, arrives to testify before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee about the assassination of former President Donald Trump at a military event in Pennsylvania in which an aide was also killed and two others were seriously injured, at the Capitol in Washington. on Monday. , July 22, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
The Secret Service director testified before the House Oversight Committee for hours Monday, with Republican and Democratic lawmakers calling on her to resign from her post.
The calls come after his company failed former President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.
United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle arrives to testify about the assassination of former President Donald Trump during a campaign in Pennsylvania before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, on Capitol Hill, Monday, July 22, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle explained to the House Oversight Committee on Monday how her company was unaware of a suspicious risk at a presidential rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when the audience pointed to a man on a rooftop minutes before former President Trump’s arrival. .
The gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, nonetheless began shooting at 6:11 p. m. , state police having notified the Secret Service about the suspect 20 minutes earlier.
Krishnamoorthi asked Cheatle if the rally ended at 5:53 p. m. m. , when the Secret Service informed their snipers about the gunman, and she told him “no. “
As for the video showing other people aiming at the shooter, two minutes passed before shots started ringing out.
“The communication occurred two minutes before the shots started ringing out. Director Cheadle. Yes or no,” Krishnamoorthi asked, insisting on whether the Secret Service would have stopped the collection if there was a known threat.
“Well, they did, because we have now known 3 points in the 20 minutes before the shooting, indicating that the risk has appeared,” Krishnamoorthi said.
Kimberly Cheatle, director of the Secret Service (REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt)
Cheatle berated both Republicans and Democrats for hours, with many calling for the director to resign from her company’s failed affairs to protect Trump.
Cheatle told the committee at the hearing that he asked Trump to apologize after the shooting.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc Getty Images)
Luna had the opportunity to question Cheatle at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Monday, asking about the Secret Service director saying his team was unaware of a risk at 5:59 p. m.
“According to communications, law enforcement authorities who participated in some of those organizational discussions reported that the secret had been informed of the risk around 5:59 p. m. as a member of the command, the Secret Service added, aware of messages and requests for data on the suspect’s location,” Luna said before giving him any other possibility to respond if he had knowledge of the risk.
“Once again, we are confusing the difference between ‘threat’ and suspicious,” Cheatle said.
“But you were aware at 5:59 p. m. , in those organization chats, right, of a suspicious individual,” Luna asked.
“It’s okay,” Cheatle said.
Luna then directed her towards Cheatle.
Representative Tim Burchett in Washington, D. C. (Fox News Digital)
“You are explosives in the shooter’s possession, is that correct?” Burchett asked Cheatle.
“The FBI explosives,” he said.
“Do we know who asked this guy how to make those explosives?” asked Burchett.
“I, the FBI, am still investigating this as part of their investigation,” Cheat responded.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle may simply not say she’s ready to make layoffs after receiving the full report on her agency’s failure to protect former President Trump on Monday.
Cheatle admitted that his testimony was going poorly, comparing the hearing to the previous one this year that resulted in the resignations of the presidents of Harvard and the University. of Pennsylvania.
“Are you telling the committee that once it’s over, you’ll be in a position to fire the other people in the room who made bad decisions that day?” he asked.
“I must take action,” Cheat replied.
“I don’t have an answer as to whether they will be fired,” Cheatle said.
“Well, how can there be liability if you’re willing to fire someone?”Moskowitz concluded.
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S. C. , told Fox News Monday outdoors in the courtroom where Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is testifying about the reaction to the shooting at Trump’s rally that she “doesn’t take any of this seriously” and “It’s almost like she’s not afraid of being fired, which is the problem.
“She didn’t answer our questions. These are very basic questions,” Mace said. “She couldn’t even answer the question of how many Secret Service agents were there that day. Are they stupid in general?”
“A user who has been there for 28 years deserves to know and see the problem, make corrections, and be able to go to members of Congress nine days after it happened with answers. Instead of hiding the agency,” he added. That’s unfortunate and that’s all the White House allows to happen. And I think that’s a mistake.
Fox News’ Kelly Phares contributed to this report.
Rep. Byron Donalds called for the “immediate” firing of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle during a House Oversight Committee hearing on Monday.
Donalds had not in the past asked Cheathle to resign. He said he was waiting to move until he heard about her in his testimony, and said he wasn’t inspired by her performance.
“It’s a joke, and director, you are the one in charge, and that’s why you have to go,” he concluded.
Donalds joins a bipartisan organization of several lawmakers who have called on Cheatle to resign in the wake of former President Trump’s assassination.
Cheatle herself admitted Monday that the attack on the rally in Bulter, Pennsylvania, was a “colossal failure” on the part of the Secret Service. So far he has refused to resign.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies on Capitol Hill about the reaction to the shooting at Trump’s rally. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc Getty Images)
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle opened her testimony before Congress by frankly admitting that her company had “failed” in its project for former President Trump.
Although she said she took full responsibility for what happened, Cheatle said she would not resign and told the hearing that she believed she was the most productive user at the moment to lead the secret services.
Cheatle made it clear that none of his testimony should be understood as a complaint from local law enforcement or other security partners the Secret Service worked with at former President Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle told the House Oversight Committee on Monday that “as far as I can discern, between two and five times there was some type of communication related to a suspicious individual” at Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania before the first shots rang out.
“Why wasn’t the occasion interrupted at that time?Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla. , and then him.
“I have to assume they didn’t know there was a risk when they brought the president on stage,” Cheatle said in reaction to the question.
“Would you say that leaking your keynote speech. . . several hours before sending it to this committee is political? Yes or no? Cheating mace.
“I have no idea how my message spread,” Cheatle responded.
“Well, that’s,” Mace replied, before mentioning the news articles published between five a. m. and 7 p. m. ET, 3 hours before he said the House oversight committee won Cheatle’s statement.
In other questions from Mace, Cheatle answered “yes” when asked if the Trump rally shooting was a “colossal failure” and could have been prevented.
“Do you have all the audio and video recordings of your property for this committee, as we asked on July 15? Yes or no? Mace said at one point.
“I’ll answer you,” Cheatle replied.
“That’s a no. You’re full of nonsense today. You’re just dishonest,” Mace told Cheatle.
The Secret Service has made “adjustments” to Vice President Kamala Harris’ top security features following President Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race, Director Kimberly Cheatle said Monday.
Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris on Sunday after weeks of mounting tension from fellow Democrats. Harris is now the favorite to be the Democratic nominee, even if her rise isn’t set in stone.
Many Democrats have backed Harris, but the main holdouts remain significant, including former President Obama, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Harris accepted Biden’s endorsement on Sunday and has since earned a wave of votes from Clintons and Hollywood celebrities.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle declined to disclose Monday whether the gun used by Trump’s gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, in the attack was already on the roof or if he was carrying it himself before opening fire on the former president.
“Was the gun already on the roof? Or had the shooter taken it with him? Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz. , Cheatle.
“I don’t have that right now,” she replied.
“I don’t have that right now,” Cheatle said again.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said Monday that “when I have a full report on what exactly happened, there will be accountability and we will make changes,” but later said a report on this issue would be complete within 60 days. .
“I can tell you that in terms of our internal investigative and assurance mission, we aim to finish this within 60 days,” he said. “An external investigation will also be carried out. There are also a number of investigations through the Office of the Inspector General.
“It’s not theater. This is not a joke. It’s about the security of some of the most specific and highly valued targets around the world and locally in the United States of America,” Ocasio-Cortez added. “The idea of a report being finalized in 60 days, let alone concrete decisions being made, is simply not acceptable. ”
Cheatle said earlier in the hearing that she “doesn’t wait for those investigations to be over to make changes. “
Progressive Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif. , on Monday called for the resignation of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle.
Khanna did this during Cheatte’s testimony before the House oversight committee. The lawmaker grilled Cheatle about the Secret Service’s failure to protect former President Trump, resulting in shocking exchanges of opinions.
“Director Cheatle, do you agree that this is the most serious security breach since the assassination of President Reagan in 1981? “” Khanna asked.
“Yes sir, I will,” Cheatle replied.
“Well, do you know what Stuart Knight, he was in charge, at the time, of the Secret Service, did?Do you know what he did?'” Khanna asked.
“It remained in service,” Cheat said.
“He resigned. He resigned. And Stuart Knight was not nominated by the Democrats or the Republicans. I don’t question his judgment, I just don’t think he’s partisan. If he has an assassination attempt opposed to a president or a former president or candidate, he will have to resign.
“That’s what Stuart Knight did. I appointed him through the Republicans and he assumed his responsibilities. . . You can’t run a security company when there is an assassination attempt on a presidential candidate,” Khanna concluded.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies before the House Oversight Committee. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg Getty Images)
“We created a bunker on top of the president to protect him,” Cheatle said afterward.
“It was an AR-15 type weapon that would have been pretty fast if I had been determined and able to do it,” Lynch responded, referring to the talent of marksman Thomas Matthew Crooks.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said she may simply check to see if agents confronted Thomas Matthew Crooks before his attack on former President Trump.
“Has anyone confronted [the criminals] about this? Has anyone asked them questions? What are they doing with the diversity finder? Has anyone confronted them about their presence near the president?” Lynch asked.
“Again, as far as I know, that was the procedure that was being carried out, it was to locate the individual,” Cheatle replied.
“Did they confront him? Did they pass him? Did they communicate to him?” Lynch insisted.
“I don’t have the main points right now,” Cheat said.
Cheatle rejects calls for his resignation from Republican lawmakers.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md. , asked Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle on Monday: “On Saturday, July 13th. . . local police met and even photographed a guy who was acting suspiciously and this guy who It turned out the shooter had been reported as a possible threat. Is this correct?
“What I can say is that the individual was a known suspect,” Cheatle responded.
“So he was known for his suspicions before former President Trump took the stage?” asked Raskin.
“If the data that there was a risk had been transmitted, this detail would never have brought the former president to the stage. That’s what we do and that’s who we are. We are guilty of protecting all of our protégés,” Cheatle continued.
“It happens on cover occasions that other suspicious people are identified, and the other people want to investigate and find out what identifies that user as suspicious,” he also said.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said Monday that “for the occasion in Butler, no request was denied” from former President Trump’s team.
“They asked for more one way or another. You told them no. How many times have you said no to them? And what did you say to them, didn’t you?”Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, asked Cheatle, referring to comments by Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.
“What I can tell you is that, generally speaking, when other people ask for details, there are other tactics to hedge that risk or report,” Cheatle responded.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md. , speaks at the House Oversight Committee hearing. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“What happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, was a double failure. The failure of the Secret Service to protect former President Trump well and the failure of Congress to protect our people well from criminal gun violence. “So we also have to ask ourselves tough questions about whether our legislation makes it too simple for would-be killers to discharge firearms, in the case of the AR-15 in particular,” he said. -Declared.
“Last year, we had 655 mass shootings in United States, explained as four or more people shot and killed in a single event, not including the shooter. Another 712 people were killed and approximately 2,700 people injured in those attacks in 2023. Mass shootings are common,” he also said. They are held at political rallies and constituent meetings in our elementary, middle, and high schools, in churches, synagogues, and mosques, movie theaters, parades, nightclubs, and grocery stores, at concerts, and on street corners. streets. “
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said her firm was “still reading the complex procedure and resolution made” about why no agents were located on the roof that Trump’s gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, used to shoot former President Trump.
“The construction was outside the perimeter on the day of the visit. But, again, that’s one of the things that we need to look at in the investigation and determine whether or not other decisions deserve to have been made,” he said. saying
He added: “I’m not going to go into detail about how many other people we had there, but there were a sufficient number of officials assigned” to the event.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle told the House Oversight Committee that “on July 13, we failed” in her agency’s handling of the Trump rally shooting.
“As Director of the United States Secret Service, I take full responsibility for any security breaches in our agency,” she continued.
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky. , told Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle that he was resigning because of her agency’s handling of the Trump rally shooting.
“I firmly believe, Director Cheatle, that you are resigning. However, with complete indifference, Principal Cheadle has stated that she will not resign,” Comer continued. “Therefore, today you will be answering questions from the members of this committee who seek to provide clarity. “To the Americans about how those events could have happened. “
Comer called the July 13 killing “one of the darkest days in American political history. “
House Oversight Committee Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md. , told Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle that he would face some questions today.
“Therefore, the President and I are determined to shine a light on those staggering security lapses that allowed this 20-year-old lone gunman who borrowed his father’s AR-15 to carry out a mass shooting and attempted assassination at an event protected by secret. service, as well as national and local law enforcement,” Continued. “Today we will ask Director Cheadle some tough questions to identify and understand the shocking security breaches that have occurred and to help reshape Secret Service operations to save it. such a scenario will fall again. ”
House Speaker Mike Johnson showed Fox News on Monday that he met with Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle just before the start of the House Oversight Committee’s ongoing hearing.
Leaving the meeting, which took place in a back room of the Rayburn House office building, Johnson, when asked on Fox News whether Cheatle was resigning, said “it doesn’t seem that way. “
Many lawmakers, including Johnson, have called on Cheatle to resign from office following the shooting at Trump’s July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Fox News’ Kelly Phares contributed to this report.
The House Oversight Committee hearing into the assassination of former President Trump at a July 13 rally in Pennsylvania is underway.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle enters the Rayburn House construction before her testimony before the House Oversight Committee on Monday. (Fox News)
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle arrived at the Capitol on Monday ahead of her House Oversight Committee hearing on the shooting at the Trump rally, which is just minutes away.
Dr. Larry Sabato, author of “The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and the Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy,” he told Fox News Digital this week that, like the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy – in addition to the attempted assassination of President Reagan – a troubled young man was able to exploit “serious” security vulnerabilities and clearly shoot an American leader.
“By my calculations, Trump had perhaps three times as many Secret Service workers as JFK,” the professor said, alluding to the scale of the security problems that nearly led to his death. through Trump last weekend.
The House is expected to vote on a bill led by Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa. , to identify a bipartisan commission to investigate the Trump rally shooting.
It will then “submit a final report of its findings to the House no later than December 13, 2024, adding any recommendations for legislative reforms to prevent long-term security breaches,” the report adds.
Fox News’ Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at the Libertarian National Convention at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D. C. , on May 24. (AP/Jose Luis Magaña)
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Fox on Monday morning
But he added that “to me there were glaring shortcomings” in the way the Secret Service acted in Trump’s crusade on the occasion of the assassination attempt.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is scheduled to testify this morning before the House Oversight Committee on the matter.
Ron Layton, a former Secret Service official who covered major points of presidential protection, told the Wall Street Journal that Director Kimberly Cheatle’s upcoming testimony about the Trump rally shooting will be a “pivotal moment in the recent history of the agency. ”
Layton told the newspaper that the Secret Service’s “aura of impenetrability” has eroded following the shooting at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, and that Cheatle will now have to assure Americans that his signature took action on Trump. and other public officials.
The hearing, titled “United States Secret Service Surveillance and Attempted Assassination of President Donald J. Trump,” will take place on Capitol Hill at 10 a. m. ET.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and Representative Anna Paulina Luna (Getty Images)
A Republican member of the House Oversight Committee, who is scheduled to meet with United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle on Monday, said the Department of Homeland Security would face a “rude awakening” if it continued to “clog” the system’s failures. to the attack on former President Trump.
“I’m looking forward to hearing from Director Cheatle on Monday and getting answers for other Americans about the Secret Service’s failure to take steps that would have prevented the attempt on President Trump’s life,” Luna said.
“I would also like answers as to why Mayorkas’ DHS has attempted blatant bureaucratic obstruction against us. They are getting away with it and we expect their full transparency. “
An undated symbol of Thomas Matthew Crooks. (AFP document)
Jytte Klausen, a professor of political science at Brandeis University, has studied terrorist networks and violent extremism for two decades, devising a method for forensic biographies of perpetrators and radicalization trajectories.
He is currently writing a book titled “How to Become a Terrorist” that delves into incels, local Islamists, neo-Nazis, and groups.
“Basically, he was looking for a goal that would give him attention and fame. That’s why I say he acted as a fantasy of himself as a wonderful man, showing the world what he can do and attracting attention,” he continued.
Two investigators, who appear to be federal agents, enter Thomas Crooks’ home. (Derek Shook/Fox News Digital)
The men, one of whom was carrying a giant purse, were greeted at the door by a guy who invited them around 2 p. m.
They stayed in the modest space on Milford Drive in the quiet suburb of Bethel Park for 85 minutes before returning to their black SUV and setting off.
That same afternoon, two men dressed in black knocked on a neighbor’s door and waited. Nobody responded. They walked to the side of the area and came out a few minutes later.
Secret Service agents converge to cover former President Trump at the July 13 crusade rally in Pennsylvania. (AP/Evan Vucci)
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky. , will ask Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign Monday at his opening hearing on the Trump rally assassination attempt.
“I firmly believe, Director Cheatle, that you deserve to resign. However, in absolute terms, Director Cheatle stated that she would not be resigning. Therefore, today she will be answering questions from members of this committee who seek to bring clarity to the situation and other people about how those events could possibly have occurred,” Comer added.
Fox News’ Kelly Phares contributed to this report.
Former President Trump receives help from United States Secret Service agents at a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, July 13. (AP/Gene J. Puskar)
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is expected to tell House lawmakers on Monday that her company “failed” on security at Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania, where an assassination took place.
“We will have to be informed of what happened and I will move heaven and earth to make sure that an incident like the one on July 13 does not happen again,” Cheatle is also expected to say. “Thinking about what we deserve to have done is never far from my thoughts. ”
Image of the shooting at the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. (AP/Gene J. Puskar)
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. , released his official 13-page initial findings on his office’s investigation into the assassination of former President Trump.
Shortly after the incident, Johnson’s workplace began contacting federal, state and local government entities, as well as private businesses, to request information about safety lapses at the demonstration, the senator’s workplace said. Array The initial findings are based on initial data received through Johnson’s workplace after the shooting.
The investigation also revealed that photographs of the shooter were sent to the ATF for his facial popularity and that local authorities said the Secret Service did not plan to send snipers to the meeting in the first place.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle speaks at a security news conference at the Republican National Convention on June 6 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (AP/Morry Gash)
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee scheduled a hearing for Monday with Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who is facing complaints and calls for her resignation from lawmakers over her agency’s handling of the US shooting. Trump rally last weekend in Pennsylvania.
Cheatle is refusing to resign, but House Speaker Mike Johnston told FOX Business on Thursday that he is willing to ask President Biden to fire her.
“Continuity of operations is a critical incident of the utmost importance and United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has no plans to resign. “She deeply respects members of Congress and is firmly committed to transparency by leading the Secret Service through internal investigation and strengthening the company with lessons learned in those vital internal and external reviews,” the spokesperson said. Word of secret service Anthony Guglielmi in a press release last Wednesday.
Cheatle confronted senators with not easy answers when he attended the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
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