Watch live: Oversight of the U.S. Secret Service and the Attempted Assassination of President Donald J. Trump. Kim Cheatle is scheduled to speak before the Oversight committee in Congress in the US House of Representatives. At 10am ET in Washington DC, the director of the United States Secret Service Kim Cheatle will be questioned about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally last week in Butler, Pennsylvania. Thomas Matthew Crooks has been identified as the alleged shooter in the investigation. The hearing will center on apparent oversights and mistakes the Secret Service may have made in their protection of former President Trump at the campaign rally. The organization has faced fierce criticism for allowing the shooter to get so close into position before responding and taking him out.
The president of the Butler Farm Show – where former President Trump held his rally on Saturday when the assassination attempt unfolded – tells the New York Times that Secret Service agents first visited the site less than a week before the event.
AOC, MTG, Nancy Mace and others all got in on the questioning.
Organizers for Trump’s campaign asked to use the site in Butler on July 3 before Secret Service agents showed up to scan the area on July 8, Ken Laughlin said to the newspaper.
“It just seemed like an awful quick turn around,” he said.
Trump’s rally was supposed to be held at the Butler County Airport — but the airport was already booked out for July 13 for the Penn Township Volunteer Fire Company’s annual Mega Cruise car show, according to Stephanie Saracco, the Butler County Airport Manager.
Trump held a rally at the airport on October 31, 2020 as President.
Former Department of Defense counterterrorism analyst Kara Frederick said on the ‘The Faulkner Focus’ Friday that the House hearing next week with the Secret Service’s director “should give us a lot of answers” surrounding the investigation of Trump rally shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks.
The House Oversight Committe is set to question Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle on Monday.
The hearing comes after Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., said members of Congress were told this week that Crooks had three encrypted accounts on overseas platforms.
“As something I did for almost ten years with the government and then with a big tech company, what you do is you can extract data from these platforms,” Frederick said. “You can figure out who were these platforms that he was supposedly using – even if they were encrypted – who was he talking to, what are his IP addresses, can you geolocate him to those physical locations… was he using aliases?”
“There are people who are in the government – even who are outside of the government – who can work to exploit that information that those accounts would convey,” she added.
The House Committee On Oversight and Accountability has scheduled a hearing for Monday with Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who is facing criticism and calls to resign from lawmakers over her agency’s handling of the Trump rally shooting last weekend in Pennsylvania.
The hearing, titled “Oversight of the U.S. Secret Service and the Attempted Assassination of President Donald J. Trump,” is set to unfold on Capitol Hill beginning at 10 a.m. ET Monday.
Cheatle is refusing to resign, but House Speaker Mike Johnston told FOX Business on Thursday that he is prepared to call on President Biden to fire her.
“Continuity of operations is paramount during a critical incident and U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has no intentions to step down. She deeply respects members of Congress and is fiercely committed to transparency in leading the Secret Service through the internal investigation and strengthening the agency through lessons learned in these important internal and external reviews,” Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement late Wednesday.
Cheatle was confronted by senators who were demanding answers when she showed up at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this week.
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Ms. Mace calls Bulls**t
She needs to be fired
27:33 dude! The weapon can’t squeeze its own trigger
She is a joke!!!
Ms. Mace calls Bulls***
A woman has NO business working for the secret service in ANY capacity!! NONE!!! DEI has been created for destruction!
She's supposed to be ready now. Don't give her more time.
God saved Trump. They may try again. They’re in shock that it failed.
demon lady.
I'm more than halfway through and I only heard one democrat know the victims names and mention them. Almost every republican named the victims and spoke about them before bringing up Trump. All the democrats said was "ar-15". He had bombs and if he had a hunting rifle with a scope he wouldn't have missed, but the scrawny rat probably would have a broken shoulder to go along with the whole in his head.
Jews do lie. Sorry raskin. Your only allegiance is to Israel not America. You can't take our guns away. Constitution prohibits that.
There you go Raskin making it about guns not the shooters!
Thats why she came ,she knew that she wouldn't answer the question
Pretty sad when AOC is the only Democrat asking about the SS instead of grandstanding on weapons bans
When Trump gets in there will be a WORLD RECORD SACKING on the first day. The grassy knoll had more of a slope than the roof that posed a so called safety risk.
Mr. Krishnamoorthi asked some excellent questions with video.
Put her in jail!
"We'll ask hard questions." She will pretend not to know the answers! Anyone that pretends to be this stupid should never work in government again.
Why not allow the Trump campaign to take lead on all resources and operational control for protection of Trump?
What a joke. I listened to this entire thing. Dems are more focused on guns than the innocent people killed and shot. Such a joke. Fire her.
Oh, my, yes. I don't miss Keystone pipelines [AB to GA], unexploded Black Sea [NordStream] pipelines, secure borders, less partisan DOJ & FBI,
1st amendment enforcement instead of perversion, BLM arsonists excused, J6 tourists given life-like sentences, Abraham Accords [Bahrain,
Morocco, UAE, Sudan, etc], leverage with Putin.
If KJIl has ideas for Taiwan, I'd prefer a pres. who has never set foot in Korea [45/46 or since Ike].
Please keep the wars going – nowhere near enough McMansions in DC.
These democtards turning this from an assasination hearing to an assault ban hearing. Gtfoh
Citizens with guns arent a problem, its criminals with guns and they dont give a crap about the laws
Take accountability and be charged for murder.
Hold her in contempt throw her ass in jail till she starts answering
Ms. Mace called bulls**t, she got the most answers out of her.
It sounds like i know more about the secret service failures than Cheadle does,all from watching you tube…… ridiculous!
Who told her to stand down!!! Who told her to stand down !!! If there’s an investigation WHY HASN’T ALL OF HER PHONES, COMPUTERS ALREADY BEEN REMOVED AND SEARCHED!!!
I've never met/seen anyone as useless as her in a trade that they have had 29 years of experience in. Also, i was really surprised she didn't even visit the site. She really doesn't give af about this situation does she?
Did she go to the site the night before?
The officer that shot the assasin was "BROOKS"!! It was told on a different program!
18:38 start
Some really, REALLY sketchy is going on right now…
Democrats have tried to remove Trump from office and have tried to remove him from the ballot and there has been an attempt on his life… to which this testimony applies to. The events of the attempted assassination is very disturbing and questionable…
And now Biden has recently resigned and there has been no televised speech from the POTUS and his X account has been deactivated… something isn’t right.
By the end of this You can tell what little soul she has had left her body
The facts that u approve for us to know