Two weeks have transpired since the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and the Secret Service and Biden Department of Homeland Security are still refusing to provide any real answers.
After repeatedly refusing to do so for weeks, the Secret Service’s director finally resigned in the hope it would distract from what can only be described at this point as a coverup of the truth.
But Marsha Blackburn sent one message to former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle that has her sweating bullets.
They refuse to tell you the truth
Since the moment it became clear that former President Donald Trump had miraculously survived an attempted assassination, countless questions about the Secret Service’s catastrophic failure have arisen.
Virtually every day, new information comes to light, but none of it has given the American people real answers – in fact, it all just seems to create even more questions.
Of course, the fact that the Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security continue to refuse to provide the American people, much less Members of Congress, with real answers is only making matters worse.
For example, in the immediate aftermath of the attempted assassination, rather than giving the American people any real answers or even responding to Congressional investigations, now-former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle rushed to Democrats’ media allies at ABC News to claim that the agency had left the roof the would-be assassin utilized to shot at Trump unsecured because it was “sloped” and posed a “safety” risk – a clear smokescreen excuse to cover up the failure.
“That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point,” Cheatle claimed at the time. “And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof.”’
Fortunately, a few of Americans’ elected representatives have been working overtime to find the truth, and ensure that the bureaucrats responsible for the failure are held accountable.
When Cheatle decided to visit the Republican National Convention to speak with Trump less than 72 hours after the Secret Service’s failure – a meeting that was reportedly rather short for obvious reasons – Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and John Barrasso (R-WY) spotted and confronted her as she attempted to sneak in without being noticed.
“She can run, but she cannot hide”
The Senators went nuclear on Cheatle, demanding that she provide the American people with answers immediately, and proceeded to keep the pressure on her as she attempted to run away and hide from them.
Following the confrontation, Senator Blackburn appeared on Fox News’ The Faulkner Focus and declared that Chealte “cannot hide.”
“She’s going to have to come forward. She can run, but she cannot hide,” Blackburn said. “She has to provide these answers. She should be fired. She should have been fired Saturday night.”
Blackburn also revealed that during a call with Senators in the aftermath of the Secret Service’s failure, Cheatle and others within the agency’s leadership literally hung up in the middle of the call rather than providing them with answers.
“They said, oh, there are no more questions in the queue,” Blackburn explained. “And they cut the call and everyone was like, we need some answers.”
“But Harris, she would not take five minutes and provide answers for the people, and we were trying to get answers on the phone call,” she added. “How could the Secret Service allow their protectee, President Donald Trump, to take the stage at 6:00, when at 5:51, they had identified a potential threat? 5:53 they alerted the spotters and the sharpshooters, and then at 6:00, they clear him to go on the stage?”
Needless to say, Blackburn and others have been hot on Cheatle and the Secret Service’s trail throughout this ordeal, and are determined to get answers.
Not getting off that easy
But of course, after facing the pressure for ten full days – including being utterly humiliated throughout a Congressional hearing – Cheatle finally gave in and resigned earlier this week.
Clearly, she thought that she could get the heat off herself, and potentially save herself from facing any real accountability or consequences for her failure in “leading” the agency.
But Senator Blackburn is having none of that.
In a post on X shortly after Cheatle announced her resignation, Blackburn declared that the now-former Secret Service Director wasn’t going to be able to get off that easy.
“While Director Cheatle has finally done the right thing and resigned, she still has a responsibility to explain to Tennesseans and the American people how her agency let President Trump come within inches of being killed by an assassin’s bullet,” Blackburn wrote.
While Director Cheatle has finally done the right thing and resigned, she still has a responsibility to explain to Tennesseans and the American people how her agency let President Trump come within inches of being killed by an assassin’s bullet.
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) July 24, 2024
She also provided just a few of the remaining unanswered questions Cheatle, the Secret Service, and Biden Department of Homeland Security must be required to answer.
While Director Cheatle has finally done the right thing and resigned, she still has a responsibility to explain to Tennesseans and the American people how her agency let President Trump come within inches of being killed by an assassin’s bullet.
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) July 24, 2024
Kimberly Cheatle thought she could use the typical ruling class elites’ typical playbook by merely resigning and pretending nothing happened before being given her golden parachute from one of the usual suspects like a Federal Reserve-propped up Fortune 500 company, one of Democrats’ media allies, or a left-wing university or a think tank.
But Marsha Blackburn clearly isn’t letting her get off that easy.
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