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Watch Live: Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies about Trump shooting
CBS ^ | 7/21/24 | Melissa Quinn

Posted on 07/22/2024 7:32:03 AM PDT by hardspunned

Washington — Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is testifying Monday before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee about the security failures that allowed a 20-year-old gunman to open fire on former President Donald Trump and a crowd of his supporters at a rally more than a week ago.

Cheatle has come under significant pressure to resign in the aftermath of the assassination attempt, in which Trump and two others were injured and one rally attendee was killed.

The FBI identified Thomas Matthew Crooks as the shooter, and he was killed by a Secret Service sniper. Lawmakers have questioned how Crooks was able to gain access to a rooftop so close to where Trump was speaking at the campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer told Cheatle directly that she should resign, saying that with her at the helm of the Secret Service, it is questionable whether the president, first lady, White House and presidential candidates are safe.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: cheatle; kimberly; secretservice
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1 posted on 07/22/2024 7:32:03 AM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned
The Ranking member of the committee used the term "AR-15" about 200 times during his opening statement. And so far, the director of the SS hasn't answered a single question, falling back on the old "ongoing investigation" dodge.

Complete waste of time.

2 posted on 07/22/2024 7:35:20 AM PDT by LIConFem (Feels like April 19th, 1775...)
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To: hardspunned

Time to quit beating around the bush. Ask her, “Who in the Democrat party ordered the hit on Trump?”


3 posted on 07/22/2024 7:35:47 AM PDT by RatRipper
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To: hardspunned

Cheatle is doing the “Ongoing Investigation” BS answer. Well trained by myorkis..


4 posted on 07/22/2024 7:41:22 AM PDT by Eli Kopter
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To: RatRipper

That would be incredible! And pertinent to the matters at hand.


5 posted on 07/22/2024 7:42:48 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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To: hardspunned

What a crock of crap- this is a worthless waste of time and money. The DEI head of Secret Service is providing no answers and the dems are only talking about gun control! What BS!


6 posted on 07/22/2024 7:46:09 AM PDT by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot come soon enough!)
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To: hardspunned

Buddy sent this last night - a very interesting look into the secret Secret Service Headquarters:

https://youtu.be/8lI1Z0_UwCE


7 posted on 07/22/2024 7:46:23 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: LIConFem

Dems still talking about gun control instead of the assassination attempt.


8 posted on 07/22/2024 7:47:30 AM PDT by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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To: LIConFem

Usually we would have seen a picture of the gun used, especially if it were something scary looking.

Have any photographs of the gun been published?


9 posted on 07/22/2024 7:50:05 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy

Only in conjunction with the deceased perp i.e. it was in frame when the photo was taken. By all reports it’s a DPMS AR-15, which is a budget tier AR.

CC


10 posted on 07/22/2024 7:54:38 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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"Have any photographs of the gun been published?"

Not that I've seen. I have also not seen or heard any other details, such as:

Caliber of the rifle? If it was an "AR-style", I would assume 5.56, but it could also have been a number of other calibers.

The number of rounds fired from Crooks' rifle?

Did he use a scope, or iron sights?

11 posted on 07/22/2024 7:55:53 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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I’ve read that it was a Palmetto State Armory A-15 with a red dot optic. It would be nice to see it. Do you believe or will you believe anything, anything at all, that you’re told from an official DC source about this?


12 posted on 07/22/2024 7:56:20 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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I’m so sick of this already. They’re always having hearings without success. The criminals are always testifying of their crimes and yet nothing is done. There is no accountability they remain defiant and dig their heels in! So saying that Trump better get himself a bulletproof plexiglass barrier around him when he holds rallies. These evil monsters will not stop at nothing! And when the cackling hyena poll numbers start tanking watch for the rabid evil dogs to try something else on Trump. So ladies and gentlemen get ready for the only thing they have left in their arsenal the GREAT STEAL in November!


13 posted on 07/22/2024 7:56:51 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Sicon

Reportedly a Red dot.


14 posted on 07/22/2024 7:59:45 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: hardspunned

repubs need to tell these dems that more guns equal less crimes...


15 posted on 07/22/2024 8:08:27 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: hardspunned

Another corrupt DC agency that needs to have the top two floors fired.


16 posted on 07/22/2024 8:08:31 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races you do not like.)
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To: hardspunned

the secret service cannot do their job without more guns


17 posted on 07/22/2024 8:09:39 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: LIConFem

Connolly (D) from Va asking about firearms instead of attempted assassination. Waste of time.


18 posted on 07/22/2024 8:10:08 AM PDT by freedom1st (Build the Wall)
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To: Sicon; hardspunned

We don’t know anything except what we’ve been told. It’s strange that the government hasn’t milked the whole “assault rifle” angle endlessly. You’d expect lots of photos of the big bad black rifle.

Snipers who saw that shot said it would have been easy with the right scope but much harder with iron sights or a red dot. Which did he use?

Why don’t we know?

The lack of basic information makes this whole incident more suspicious.

AND does this incident have anything to do with Joe “resigning”? Did the failed assassination have anything to do with yesterday’s events?


19 posted on 07/22/2024 8:10:18 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: hardspunned

Those stupid RAT bastards are only focused on gun control.

Watching Connolly trying to get her to to state that guns in America are the problem.


20 posted on 07/22/2024 8:10:35 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (“Time to Play Cowboys and Snowflakes!”)
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