Secret Service Director Refuses To Answer If There Was SECOND SHOOTER At Trump’s Rally In Butler, PA

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is testifying before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Monday afternoon.

Cheatle, during her opening remarks, shared that the shooting at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, is the “most significant operational failure for the Secret Service in decades.”

She then shared that she takes full responsibility for significant security lapses.

During one part of the hearing, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) asked Cheatle if Crooks was “a lone gunman.”

Cheatle responded by neither confirming nor denying that Crooks was the only shooter and stated, “I would have to refer you to the FBI’s investigation.”

Watch Cheatle here:

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle refuses to confirm or deny that there was a second shooter pic.twitter.com/i6kn46Bodg

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Her silence is very telling https://t.co/gSy6hbr9uG

— Anthony Scott (@AnthonyScottTGP) July 22, 2024

Many news networks stopped airing after Biggs asked if there was a second shooter.

All networks cut their live feed when Cheatle gets asked about second shooter.

— Owen Shroyer (@OwenShroyer1776) July 22, 2024

Here’s what CBS News reported:

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is testifying before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, where she is facing mounting frustration from Republicans and Democrats alike over her unwillingness to answer questions about the security failures at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Cheatle told lawmakers that the attack is the “most significant operational failure” for the Secret Service in decades, and repeatedly said she takes full responsibility for the security lapses. But her promise for accountability did little to quiet the calls for her to resign, and at least one Democrat on the committee, Rep. Ro Khanna of California, joined Republicans in calling for her to step down.

“You cannot go leading a Secret Service agency when there is an assassination attempt on a presidential candidate,” he said. “I would say that about anyone.”

Across the heated hearing, Cheatle fielded questions as to why Trump was allowed to take the stage at the rally when the shooter, identified by the FBI as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, had been deemed suspicious by law enforcement, and defended the number of agents assigned to protect the former president at the campaign event.

She repeatedly cited the FBI’s ongoing criminal investigation into the assassination attempt when declining to discuss the specifics of the gunman’s actions leading up to the attack.

BREAKING: Multiple networks cut their live feeds as Director Kimberly Cheatle was asked about second shooter.

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Per CNN:

US Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle testified that the agency was told of a suspicious individual “somewhere between two and five times” on the day of the Bulter, Pennsylvania, rally where Donald Trump was nearly assassinated.

“I don’t have an exact number to share with you today, but from what I have been able to discern, somewhere between two and five times there was some sort of communication about a suspicious individual” to the Secret Service, Cheatle said.
Cheatle also said they are looking into whether there was a communication breakdown that day.

“Again, I’m not clear on the timeline of when the Secret Service (detailed to Trump) and the counter sniper were notified” of the individual, she added.

“I have to assume that they did not know that there was a threat when they brought the President out on the stage,” Cheatle said.

Rep. Andy Biggs completely obliterated Secret Service Chief Kim Cheatle, who refuses to answer any questions probably because she has fewer than ten braincells (and is incredibly dishonest). pic.twitter.com/0gOm7jHMMT

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 22, 2024