(ImpactHeadlines.com) – A spokesman for the panel announced Tuesday that the chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee intends to subpoena U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle for testimony about the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.
On Monday, Republican Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky announced that Cheatle will be appearing before committee members on July 22.
Following Saturday’s shooting at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when the former president was wounded when a bullet brushed his ear, Cheatle’s position as head of the Secret Service has been under investigation.
The incident resulted in the death of fireman Corey Comperatore and injuries to James Copenhaver and David Dutch, both of whom were veterans of the Marine Corps.
Cheatle has bizarrely claimed that placing snipers on rooftops that had slanted rooves posed a safety concern. Statements like those, in addition to footage that showed agents befuddled and unprofessional in the aftermath of the shooting, have concerned senators and representatives on Capitol Hill.
The hearing will investigate the security breaches that allowed a would-be assassin to reach a rooftop in Butler, Pennsylvania, that was within fire range of Trump’s campaign event. The public is invited and can watch the hearing live-streamed online. According to the press release, it is slated to start at 10 a.m. in the Rayburn House Office Building.
The Republican representative from Pennsylvania, Dan Meuser, said on Monday that he is prepared to ask Cheatle why this occurred, who was in charge, and what the general plan is to ensure the president’s safety. He intends to ask how a structure that has a clear line of sight to the former president can be a vulnerability, in reference to the building rooftop where the gunman fired his rifle.
Ever since the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, when a shooter made a sniper’s nest in one of the upper floors of a nearby building, the Secret Service has been sensitive to that vulnerability. But in Butler, a rooftop with a clear line of sight from 130 yards away from the stage was not monitored.
In addition, there has been solid evidence that citizens were shouting and pointing at the shooter for over a minute, but to no avail.
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