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Most of the members of the House Oversight Committee have had tough questions for Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who appeared before the committee on Monday for the first time since the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump. Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin, on the other hand, used Cheatle’s appearance as an opportunity to grandstand for gun control.
Raskindidn’tpressCheatleonhowtheshooterwasabletogetintoapositiontofireonTrumpathisrallyinButler,Pennsylvania,nordidhequiztheSecretServicedirectoraboutthefactthattheshooterwasidentifiedasapersonofinterestaboutanhourbeforeshotswerefired.No,heinsteaddecidedtofocusonthegunthatwasusedintheattack.Actually,hedidn’tevenfocusonthatspecificfirearm,whichhadbeenpurchasedmorethanadecadebeforebythekiller’sfather.Hewentafterall AR-15sandothercenterfiresemi-automaticrifles.
ThetopDemocratontheOversightcommittee,Rep.JamieRaskinofMaryland,saidtheassassinationattemptrevealed“stunning”and“shocking”securityfailuresoftheSecretServiceandcalledforar
