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5 highlights from contentious House hearing with Secret Service Dir. over Trump assassination attempt: ‘DEI horror story’
‘I am completely disgusted by your performance today’
U.S. Secret Service (USSS) Director Kimberly Cheatle drew bipartisan criticism and calls for her resignation during a tense five-hour grilling before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on Monday, nine days after former President Donald Trump narrowly avoided being assassinated.
The hearing at times grew contentious and even spilled into profanity as both Republican and Democratic members condemned Cheatle for what they perceived as a dearth of crucial information and evasive answers about what the director herself described as “the most significant operational failure at the Secret Service in decades.”
Here are five highlights from the hearing.
‘That’s bulls—‘
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., was visibly upset during her line of questioning, demanding simple yes-or-no answers from Cheatle and repeatedly using profanity while grilling into her.
Mace first offered Cheatle the opportunity to use her time to draft her resignation, which she declined.
“No, thank you,” Cheatle said.
After going on to characterize the assassination attempt as “a colossal failure,” Mace implied that Cheatle had leaked a copy of her opening statement to multiple news outlets hours before sending it to the committee. The director denied knowing how it leaked.
“That’s bulls—,” Mace replied.
Mace went on to question Cheatle on whether her agency is fully cooperating with the committee on its request for all of the agency’s recordings from July 13.
“Have you provided all audio and video recordings in your possession to this committee, as we asked on July 15?” Mace asked. “Yes or no?”
“I would have to get back to you,” Cheatle replied.
“That is a no,” Mace shot back. “You’re full of s— today. You’re just being completely dishonest.”
Mace’s profanity prompted a call for decorum in the hearing room.
Mace went on to accuse Cheatle of either “being dishonest or lying.”
“You’re being dishonest here with this committee,” she said. “These are important questions that the American people want answers to. And you’re just dodging and talking around it in generalities. And we had to subpoena you to be here. And you won’t even answer the questions. We have asked you repeatedly to answer our questions. This isn’t hard. These are not hard questions.”
Mace later further expressed frustration with Cheatle outside the hearing room, according to Fox News.
“These are very basic questions,” she told the outlet. “She couldn’t even answer the question of how many Secret Service agents were even on-site that day. It’s complete and total bulls—.”
‘I am completely disgusted by your performance today’
By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter Monday, July 22, 2024
‘DEI horror story’
Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., blasted Cheatle as a “DEI horror story” and said she should not be allowed to resign, but instead be fired.
Burchett asked why Trump had been permitted to take the stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, despite the USSS identifying the shooter as suspicious 10 minutes before. He also noted how other law enforcement had been watching him for nearly an hour before the shooting.
“That seems to me to be the worst thing of all,” Burchett said. “Of all the breakdown in all this — communication, all the BS you’ve been feeding us here today, or not feeding us — that seems to be the question.”
Burchett also asked if Cheatle was waiting for the green light from the Biden administration before releasing the results of her agency’s investigation.
“No, I am waiting for the results of the investigation,” she said.
‘Looks like a complete coverup’
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., expressed disgust with Cheatle’s answers and explicitly demanded to know if there had been a conspiracy to murder Trump.
“Absolutely not,” the director replied.
The room later broke out in chuckles of disbelief when Cheatle claimed not to even have a specific timeline of the events of July 13.
“That’s shocking,” Greene said. “That is absolutely unacceptable. That means you are a failure at your job.
Speaking to reporters after the hearing, Greene said Cheatle should be fired and that her evasive testimony has led many Americans to become “furious” and suspect a potential coverup.
“Every single member on the committee is receiving nonstop calls and text messages from our constituents back at home,” Greene said. “This is a failure like I’ve never seen, to the point where people are questioning, ‘Is she involved? What is she hiding? Is someone telling her not to tell us information? Is someone telling her not to resign?'”
“I mean, it seems like a complete cover up with the lack of information that she’s willing to provide,” Greene added”
Perjury charges
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., threatened Cheatle with perjury charges after claiming she might have lied under oath multiple times during the hearing.
“I am completely disgusted by your performance today,” the 35-year-old congresswoman said.
Luna also accused Cheatle of “stonewalling our ability to get answers to the American people.”
“And what I will also say is that every single member of Congress does not feel safe with you in charge. You have heard that, and I think that we are all sitting ducks with you and directing the Secret Service currently,” she said.
Luna said she would submit Cheatle’s testimony for review for perjury charges.
‘You need to resign’
In a rare instance of bipartisan agreement, both Democrats and Republicans on the committee criticized Cheatle and called for her resignation.
“I just don’t think this is partisan,” Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., told the director during the hearing. “If you have an assassination attempt on a president, a former president or a candidate, you need to resign.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., also took Cheatle to task for her 60-day timetable of conducting an investigation into the assassination attempt, which she described as “unacceptable.”
Following Cheatle’s testimony, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., joined with Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., to demand that Cheatle step down.
“Today, you failed to provide answers to basic questions regarding that stunning operational failure and to reassure the American people that the Secret Service has learned its lessons and begun to correct its systemic blunders and failures,” the two wrote in a letter.
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Cheatle asserted during her testimony that she has no intention of resigning.
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