From Washington Examiner: Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle spoke out against accusations that she lied to Congress and denied requests for additional security from the Trump campaign before the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year.
A report from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs found that the Secret Service “denied or left unfulfilled at least 10 requests” from Trump’s security detail for “additional resources” ahead of the July 13, 2024, shooting.
The report accused Cheatle of falsely testifying to Congress that no Secret Service “asset requests were denied for the Butler rally.” Cheatle resigned as director shortly after her testimony.
Cheatle rejected some of the report’s findings on Sunday.
“While I agree mistakes were made and reform is needed, many of which I was actually in the midst of implementing at the time of my resignation, that fateful day was literally a perfect storm of events,” Cheatle wrote.
“The Director of Secret Service is not typically directly engaged in the approval or denial of requests for support; the agency has procedures in place to identify such requirements and requests for additional assets,” she continued.
She said “for the Butler rally, I actually did direct additional assets to be provided, particularly in the form of agency counter snipers.”
A new Senate report released by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on the 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting accuses then-Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle of "falsely" testifying to Congress that "no USSS asset requests were denied for the Butler rally."
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