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BREAKING: House Oversight Bipartisan Committee Calls for Cheatle's Resignation
2024-07-22
[PJMedia] After a contentious hearing in which Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle failed to answer some of the most basic questions surrounding the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump on July 13, the House Oversight Committee called on Cheatle to resign.

Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) signed a letter, which the committee sent to Cheatle and released on social media. It’s an impressive show of bipartisanship.

The letter reads:

Director Cheatle: On July 13, 2024, the United States Secret Service under your leadership failed to protect former President Donald Trump from an assassination attempt that took the life of Corey Comperatore and seriously injured at least two other people.

Today, you failed to provide answers to basic questions regarding that stunning operational failure and to reassure the American people that the Secret Service has learned its lessons and begun to correct its systemic blunders and failures. In the middle of a presidential election, the Committee and the American people demand serious institutional accountability and transparency that you are not providing. We call on you to resign as Director as a first step to allowing new leadership to swiftly address this crisis and rebuild the trust of a truly concerned Congress and the American people.

Sincerely,

James Comer Chairman

Committee on Oversight & Accountability

& Jamie Raskin

Ranking Member

Committee on Oversight & Accountability

This bipartisan call for Cheatle to resign her post is especially remarkable after what we saw from some Democrats during the hearing. This morning, I wrote about how Raskin used his time at the beginning of the hearing to call for gun control.

He wasn’t the only one. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Jasmine Crockett (D-Tenn.) spewed even more egregious gun-grabbing nonsense.

Rep. Ayanna Presley (D-Mass.) didn’t ask Cheatle any questions; instead, she accused Republicans of being “racist” and “sexist” because they dared question diversity efforts within the Secret Service.

At this point, there’s nothing else Cheatle can do but resign. Whether she will remains to be seen, but it’s impressive to see bipartisan calls for her to resign after such ridiculous behavior from Democrats on the committee.
Related:
Kimberly Cheatle 07/21/2024 Cheatle using Signal to evade FOIA requests?
Kimberly Cheatle 07/21/2024 Secret Service honchos denied Trump additional security for 2 years before assassination attempt: damning report
Kimberly Cheatle 07/20/2024 Hawley: Briefing with Secret Service Director 'Did Not Go Well' ‐ 'She Was Not Well-Prepared'

Related:
James Comer 07/21/2024 Anthony Fauci Dismisses Trump's Wounds From Assassination Attempt
James Comer 07/18/2024 House Oversight Committee Subpoenas Secret Service Chief Kimberly Cheatle
James Comer 06/17/2024 Do the Plotters of the ‘51 Intel Experts' Coup Deserve Prison?

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Posted by:DarthVader

#4  Her body language and demeanor indicate deception. Her failing responses confirm deception.
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-07-22 22:28  

#3  Resignation is not enough It's too easy for her to let people think she's just incompetent. We need to know if she was complicit.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2024-07-22 18:24  

#2  "Will there be a Jack Ruby?", he asked innocently.
No, I'm not advocating anything. I'm just here watching the show.
Posted by: SteveS   2024-07-22 17:42  

#1  We have our Oswald
Posted by: DarthVader   2024-07-22 16:55  

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