Secret Service director to testify Monday on Trump shooting: What to know
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When United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle appears Monday in front of the House Oversight Committee - alone and under subpoena - she will be forced to provide many answers to what is essentially a single question: How did the Secret Service’s biggest failure in four decades happen under her watch?
When United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle appears Monday in front of the House Oversight Committee – alone and under subpoena – she will be forced to provide many answers to what is essentially a single question: How did the Secret Service’s biggest failure in four decades happen under her watch? In the days following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, Cheatle has done no press conferences and very few interviews. Monday’s hearing will mark the first opportunity for a lengthy dive into the security failures at Trump’s July 13 rally. House Oversight Chairman James Comer on Sunday promised the hearing would be extensive and detailed. Cheatle is “going to have about a six-hour hearing, and she’s going to have hundreds of questions that she’s going to have to answer,” Comer said on “Fox News Sunday.” In his opening statement Monday, released prior to the hearing, Comer said Cheatle should resign and noted that so far, she has refused to do so. “The Secret Service has a zero fail mission, but it failed on July 13 and in the days leading up to the rally,” Comer’s opening statement says. “The bottom line is that under Director Cheatle’s leadership, we question whether anyone is safe. Not President Biden, not the First Lady, not the White House, not presidential candidates.”
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