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In case anyone doubted that the Secret Service was engaged in a cover-up over the cocaine baggie found in the White House in 2022 — it was. The latest reports: As soon as a uniformed officer found the drugs and notified disgraced ex-Director Kim Cheatle that he wanted to follow certain crime scene protocols, the retaliations began — starting with that officer allegedly being taken off the case. Leadership apparently began to pressure forensics workers to stop trying to find DNA matches, and sought to avoid interviewing the hundreds of people with access to the space where the drugs were...

Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and others in top agency leadership positions wanted to destroy the cocaine discovered in the White House last summer, but the Secret Service Forensics Services Division and the Uniformed Division stood firm and rejected the push to dispose of the evidence, according to three sources in the Secret Service community. Multiple heated confrontations and disagreements over how best to handle the cocaine ensued after a Secret Services Uniformed Division officer found the bag on July 2, 2023, a quiet Sunday while President Biden and his family were at Camp David in Maryland, the sources...

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned from her post on Tuesday after a colossal failure that nearly ended in the assassination of former President Donald Trump, but many questions about the violent incident remain unanswered. “I have made the difficult decision to step down as your Director,” she wrote in an internal letter to the Secret Service following Monday’s House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing in which members from both sides of the aisle went after Cheatle.

President Joe Biden praised ex-Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who resigned after facing a barrage of angry lawmakers on both sides of the aisle at a hearing the day before on the agency’s failure to prevent an assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump. Biden said in his statement on Tuesday: Jill and I are grateful to Director Kim Cheatle for her decades of public service. She has selflessly dedicated and risked her life to protect our nation throughout her career in the United States Secret Service. We especially thank her for answering the call to lead the Secret Service...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., questions Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle on the perimeter established at the Pennsylvania rally and calls for transparency from the agency. #foxnews (Video at Excerpt link)

VIDEOSitting two rows behind the highly evasive DEI Director of the Secret Service Kimberly Cheatle as she avoided answering questions put to her by frustrated members of Congress, was the mysterious Snack Bar Nosher. His antics were not limited to simply noshing on a snack bar in a most disgusting manner. Watch the the full video of the incompetent Cheatle desperately trying to hang on to her job despite bipartisan calls for her to resign immediately and you will see the somewhat revolting antics of the Snack Bar Nosher for the first three hours. After that the cameraman probably got...

GOP Rep. William Timmons of South Carolina pressed Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle on Monday on reports that the Pittsburgh Secret Service field office sent four times the number of additional agents to cover a first lady Jill Biden event than to former President Donald Trump’s July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he was shot. Cheatle neither confirmed nor denied that was the case. Biden was speaking at an event at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh for approximately 300 people close to the same time Trump was speaking at his rally attended by several thousand, ... Timmons started out his...

BREAKING: Rep. Nancy Mace files motion to impeach Kim Cheatle, Director of the Secret Service

Representative Mike Waltz (R-FL) questions Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle in a House Oversight hearing Monday on the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.Representative Waltz points out “the dog that didn’t bark.” WATCH: ♦ Where are the official 10:00am press briefing updates every day on the investigation?♦ Where are the official press conferences from the Secret Service, FBI and law enforcement answering questions and providing information from the prior days investigative results?♦ Where are the organized and official updates to let the American people know what has been found out...

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle told lawmakers her agency has no radio recordings from the day of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, earlier this month. On Monday, Cheatle was asked about the security agency’s records-keeping practices by Rep. Russell Fry, R-S.C. “Does the Secret Service routinely record communications between and amongst detail?” Fry said. “Radio communications?” Cheatle clarified. “Any communication,” Fry said. “Email communications are captured as well as text messages. And then depending on the detail, radio communications are recorded,” Cheatle said. “Does the Secret Service have recorded communications from the July 13th...

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said, “That’s bullshit” in response to President Joe Biden’s Secret Service chief Kimberly Cheatle claiming she does not know how her opening statement was leaked to the press before it was sent to the House Oversight Committee. “Would you say leaking your opening statement to Punchbowl News, Politico’s Playbook, and Washington Post several hours before you sent it to this committee as being political?” Mace asked during Monday’s hearing, titled Oversight of the U.S. Secret Service and the Attempted Assassination of President Donald J. Trump. Cheatle responded, saying, “I have no idea how my statement got...

US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle confirmed that her agency denied numerous requests for reinforcement of Republic Presidential Candidate Donald Trump’s security before the recent assassination attempt. Speaking before the US House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, she was asked if the reports that the Secret Service denied numerous requests to reinforce Trump’s security, she claimed that there are cases, when "alternative means" are available to neutralize such threats or such risk. She refused to specify how many such requests were denied.

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...

United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testified before the House Oversight Committee on Monday morning. She stonewalled during the interview. She refused to answer any pertinent questions! Cheatle did not answer any important questions and blamed it on “an ongoing investigation.” She should resign immediately! Cheatle appeared before the committee alone and under subpoena. She refused to answer questions on the failures of the Secret Service in the deadly assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump that left one man dead and three, including President Trump, injured. Here is a partial transcript from today.

Join RSBN at 9 am ET on Monday, July 22, 2024, for a full committee hearing, "Oversight of the U.S. Secret Service and the Attempted Assassination of President Donald J. Trump." The hearing will begin at 10 am ET. U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle will testify.

Fox News host Jesse Watters recently conducted a sit-down interview with former President Trump to discuss last week's failed assassination attempt. The interview, which will premiere on "Jesse Watters Primetime" on Monday night at 8 p.m. ET, featured both Trump and his vice presidential candidate JD Vance. ... Trump revealed during the interview that he was not warned..."Nobody mentioned it,"...

We won’t pretend to know if this claim true, but there are what we will call 'rumors' going around that Director of the Secret Service Kimberly Cheatle will resign as soon as Monday. And it is easy to believe that it will happen because it clearly should happen. But as we said just this morning in the context of Joe Biden possibly resigning or being removed, just because something should happen, doesn’t mean it will happen. In any case, while many people are posting the reports of such an incoming resignation, the original source of this claim appears to be...

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Secret Service officials repeatedly rejected Donald Trump’s request for additional security in the two years before last weekend’s assassination attempt, The Post has learned. The ex-president, 78, asked for more agents and magnetometers at large public events he attended, as well as extra snipers for outdoor venues, four insiders told The Washington Post, which first reported the damning revelation. Each request was shot down by senior officials who claimed the agency lacked the resources Trump was asking for, the outlet reported. Trump was receiving a LESSER level of protection afforded to former presidents and major party presidential candidates when 20-year-old...

Top officials at the U.S. Secret Service repeatedly denied requests for additional resources and personnel sought by Donald Trump’s security detail in the two years leading up to his attempted assassination at a rally in Pennsylvania last Saturday, according to four people familiar with the requests. Agents charged with protecting the former president requested magnetometers and more agents to screen attendees at sporting events and other large public gatherings Trump attended, as well as additional snipers and specialty teams at other outdoor events, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive security discussions. The requests,...