07/22/2024

Congress Grills Secret Service Director about Trump Rally Shooting

Trump's campaign claims he was grazed by a gunman's bullet

Lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee called for U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign Monday, saying she had lost the nation's confidence after failing to answer detailed questions about the July 13 assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump.

Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and ranking Democrat Jamie Raskin (Md.) were among the Congress members who urged Cheatle to step aside after she testified for 4½ hours at the first congressional hearing since the attack on Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

Raskin said both parties were united in their "bafflement" over the stunning operational failures that led to the shooting. He lamented the "extraordinary communications gap" between Cheatle and Congress during the hearing.

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