In the wake of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania this past Saturday, Americans have found themselves with many unanswered questions. Questions such as how a lone 20-year-old shooter was able to station himself a little over 130 yards from where Trump was standing, how the shooter was able to pass through Secret Service and police-secured areas, and able to fire shots at the former President and the crowd behind him.
Many of these important questions are being directed solely at the Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle. During the ongoing Republican National Convention, a group of Republican senators have been raising awareness of the said questions. The legislators demanded answers regarding the failure of fully protecting Trump during the assassination attempt. The Senators in question consisted of Senator Marsha Blackburn, John Barrasso, and Senator James Lankford.
Reports reveal how the Senators took the desire for answers to another level when they confronted Cheatle about the situation on the third night of the RNC, in which Cheatle was in attendance. The Republican Senators expressed a great deal of disappointment to Cheatle over the Secret Service allowing the shooter to get a shot off in the first place. Senator Brasso personally told Cheatle that he was very disappointed in her leadership, and even asked that the Secret Service resign her position “tonight” or answer their questions immediately.
Blackburn then chimed in to verbally berate Cheatle for the mishap. Seemingly having enough of the confrontation, Cheatle attempted to walk away from legislators, prompting them to begin to follow Cheatle off camera, demanding that she owed the American people answers.
Cell phone video footage of the confrontation made its way to social media, where it went viral. These Senators were not the only political figures who condemned Cheatle; House Speaker Mike Johnson also called for Cheatle to resign.
