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From Fox News: The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general has opened an investigation into the Secret Service’s handling of security for former President Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend.
In a brief notice posted to the inspector general’s website, the agency said the objective of the probe is to “Evaluate the United States Secret Service’s (Secret Service) process for securing former President Trump’s July 13, 2024 campaign event,” during which there was an assassination attempt against Trump.
There was no date given for when the investigation was launched. The notice was among a long list of ongoing cases that the inspector general’s office is pursuing. President Biden had already directed an independent review of the security at the rally.
According to a New York Post report this week, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, 53, landed her role thanks largely to a close relationship with Jill Biden.
When appointed to the top job. Cheatle became the first woman to lead the presidential protection agency. She had previously served three years as senior director of global security at PepsiCo. Prior to that, she had served 27 years in the Secret Service, beginning in the Clinton administration.
Cheatle is now facing calls to resign over the security lapses that led to the shooting at the Trump rally on Saturday.
In a recent interview, Cheatle wildly claimed they didn’t put Secret Service agents on the roof of that particular building because it was sloped, which wasn’t ‘safe.’
“Should that roof have been secured?”
Director Kimberly Cheatle: “That building has a sloped roof. There’s a safety factor considered that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on the sloped roof.” pic.twitter.com/66eteneY4E
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 17, 2024
Disgraced Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is now saying they didn’t put snipers on the roof where the shooter was b/c it was “sloped” and “not safe”
So then why were these snipers on this roof?
This lady keeps digging herself a deeper hole
RESIGN pic.twitter.com/HRf0PPEQdc
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) July 16, 2024
REPORT: Here’s how Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle allegedly landed job
