Secret Service Chief Faces Mounting Pressure To Resign
New allegations that Secret Service training resources were reallocated to “executive leadership bonuses” and DEI-prioritized recruitment are among the torrent of charges leveled against agency Director Kim Cheatle and other top officials in the aftermath of the assassination attempt against Donald Trump.
Inside the main hall of Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum, Republicans … were enjoying a Make America Great Again lovefest. But on the outside perimeter of the convention center, anger was still spewing over an avalanche of negative information about the layers of Secret Service failures that led to a bullet piercing Trump’s right ear, just millimeters away from killing him, four days ago at a rally in Pennsylvania.
Two GOP senators angrily confronted Cheatle, running her down when she refused to answer their repeated questions.
“This is exactly what you were doing today on the call—stonewalling,” Sen. John Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, fumed at Cheatle as she walked sternly without speaking, a tall male Secret Service agent by her side.
“This was an assassination attempt!” stormed Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican. “You owe the people answers. “You owe President Trump answers.”
A tight-lipped Cheatle continued to walk briskly away.
Afterward, Blackburn and Barrasso posted a video on Twitter recounting the confrontation and reiterating their calls for answers and for Cheatle’s resignation.
“I’ve got a message for her, she can run but she cannot hide because the American people want to know how an assassination attempt was carried out on President Donald Trump,” she declared.
Allegations leveled against the Secret Service over the last 24 hours include:
A petition on change.org calling for Cheatle to resign was blocked and placed under review. When the petition was shut........
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