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U.S. Secret Service Failures Shocking

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage by U.S. Secret Service agents after being grazed by a bullet during a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

By Debra J. Saunders
Thursday, 25 July 2024 09:18 AM EDT
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The U.S. Secret Service has become "the face of incompetence," House Oversight Chair James Comer told then-U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle as she testified Monday before his committee.

The day did not go well for Cheatle, who offered no good explanation as to how 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to out-maneuver the Secret Service, a $3 billion agency, and plant himself and his father's AR-15 on a rooftop within range of Donald Trump as the former president spoke at a Pennsylvania rally on July 13.

Cheatle admitted that the failed assassination attempt, which wounded the GOP nominee and left Trump supporter Corey Comperatore dead and two other rally attendees seriously injured, was "the most significant operational failure in the Secret Service for decades."

And she admitted the Secret Service had been told about a suspicious person on a nearby building "two to five times" before the shooter opened fire. The threat risk that day was elevated from suspicious to a threat only "seconds" before the Pennsylvanian fired at the former president, Cheatle told the committee.

But ABC News reported last week that the Secret Service spotted the shooter on a roof 20 minutes before shots were fired. A government sniper killed the would-be assassin.

Cheatle also made a claim that tainted every other word out of her mouth: "I have taken accountability."

If you wonder why government doesn't seem to work anymore, look no further.

Cheatle finally resigned on Tuesday

Americans' trust in government wasn't exactly high before the shooting — because there is no accountability in Washington.

As Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, told Cheatle, "Because Donald Trump is alive, and thank God he is, you look incompetent.

If Donald Trump had been killed, you would have looked culpable."

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READ MORE: https://www.newsmax.com/debrajsaunders/secret-service-trump-shooting/2024/07/25/id/1173884/

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