At 10 AM ET, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle will testify about the security failure that led to the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump.
I am in Chicago this afternoon, but I will update you as much as possible. Here is the live stream.
“I don’t know who prepared you for this. I don’t know how many times you’ve testified in front of Congress, but a president was almost assassinated live on television. Not just for Americans, but for the world to see. And this being your first opportunity, I understand there’s an ongoing investigation. I understand there’s things that you can not talk about, but the the idea that we’re getting less than you did on television is something that Democrats, independents and Republicans are going to find unacceptable,” Moskowitz said.”Are you telling the committee that once it’s concluded you’re prepared to fire the people on the ground who made poor decisions that day?” he asked.”I’m prepared to take the actions,” Cheatle responded.”No, no, no, that’s that’s nonsense. Okay. Accountability. The failure was human. That doesn’t mean they’re bad people. It means they failed that day. And a president was almost–a former president was almost assassinated. Okay. Are you prepared to fire the human failure on the ground? Yes or no? When you have the names of where those failures were, they’re people. It’s not like a piece of technology failed. It was people who failed that day. Are you prepared to fire them?” the lawmaker pressed.”I don’t have an answer as to whether [they will be fired],” Cheatle said.”Well, then how can there be accountability if you’re not prepared to fire someone?” Moskowitz concluded.
They obviously protected a young white male:
CROCKETT: “But, you know, I want to stay here for for just a second, because earlier you had a conversation in which there was a discussion about training. And I wanna talk about training and I want to talk about the fact that there’s been a little bit of dancing around as it relates to this being a suspicious person and this being a situation that was perceived to be a threat. And it seems as if there’s a different analysis that takes place. One of my questions has to do with if you have have any bias training that your officers undergo. And the reason that I ask that is because as a civil rights lawyer, I have learned so many times, in having to deal with law enforcement, that there usually is not a perception of a threat when it is a young white male, even if they are carrying a long gun. Yet a lot of times, at least in this country, when it comes to law enforcement, there is a perceived threat just by somebody having a little bit more melanin in their skin.”
TLAIB: “Thank you so much, Mr. Chair. Thank you, director, for being here. You know, we hear the headline a 20-year-old young man with access to an assault weapon commits a mass — you know, act of mass violence. I mean, we’ve heard this before, over and over again. The unfortunate thing is, my residents don’t get a committee hearing. We have not had one committee hearing about the over 260 mass shootings that we’ve had, killing hundreds of people, injuring hundreds — changing their lives forever. And don’t get me wrong. To many of my colleagues, I mean, I watched, and even the pool of blood, the screams, it was horrific, but it made me think about the images I saw after mass shootings at schools, grocery stores.”
Yes, some Democrats have been trying to use the assassination attempt to push gun control.
Yeah, I knew she would say she couldn’t comment on anything. Hearings are such a waste of time.
Then why hasn’t she resigned?
I have not seen any non-leftists call for gun control after the assassination attempt. Doesn’t surprise me that the left is using it.
DHS shared a few excerpts from Cheatle’s opening statement:
“The Secret Service’s solemn mission is to protect our nation’s leaders. On July 13th, we failed,” Cheatle is expected to say, according to excerpts of her remarks released by the Department of Homeland Security. “As the Director of the United States Secret Service, I take full responsibility for any security lapse. As an agency, we are fully cooperating with the FBI’s investigation, the oversight you have initiated here, and conducting our own internal mission assurance review at my direction.”“We must learn what happened and I will move heaven and earth to ensure an incident like July 13 does not happen again,” Cheatle is also expected to say. “Thinking about what we should have done differently is never far from my thoughts.”
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