United States – A New House Republican wants the Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle dismissed over the botched assassination attempt on former President Trump.
Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-N. Y. presented the legislation on Monday in a contentious Capitol Hill hearing. Both Republicans and Democrats criticized Cheatle for her unforthright responses. Some of the House Oversight Committee Republicans have already given it support, as reported by Fox News.
Accountability for Security Failures
Langworthy said that Cheatle “must be held accountable for the unacceptable failure to keep President Trump and rallygoers safe on July 13th.”
During the Oversight hearing today, all she did was run away from questions and shift the blame. Corey Comperatore is dead because of it, and this Secret Service is incompetent. The American people expect better from their leaders, and the agents responsible for guarding the highest office in the country should not be a letdown. She needs to be fired as soon as possible, Langworthy stated.
Incident Details and Aftermath
It emerges as the Secret Service director faces increased pressure to resign her post after a 20-year-old gunman was able to shoot Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, from a rooftop located outside the perimeter of the event. It was a terrible event where one participant passed away, and two other people were injured.
Donald Trump himself was shot in the ear and was taken off the stage by Secret Service agents.
Bipartisan Calls for Resignation
Most of the calls for Cheatle to be fired were from the right, although on Sunday, Representative Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania made the call. Even Nancy Pelosi, the House of Representatives minority leader, a fellow Democrat, and a member of the House Budget Committee, called on her to resign.
“I’m very sorry to reach this conclusion: I have no confidence in the leadership of the United States Secret Service. I hereby call on Kimberly Cheatle to resign,” Boyle said.
Democrats have also briefly walked out of Cheatle’s ongoing hearing on Monday to express their dissatisfaction with the answers they got throughout the all-day proceedings.
Ongoing Oversight Hearing
“If she continues to evade fairly simple and direct questions…I think she makes the case for her continuation much more problematic,” Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., told reporters.
Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California, a member of the progressive caucus. , on Monday demanded Cheatle to resign in the course of the hearing on the Secret Service director, insisting that, “If you have an assassination attempt on a president or a former president or a candidate, you have to resign.
Fox News Digital contacted the Secret Service for a response.