Republican Congressman Pat Fallon (R-TX) roasted Former United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle for five minutes straight during a congressional hearing regarding the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump during his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, earlier this month. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability subpoenaed Cheatle to testify before Congress.
The Secret Service director had faced intense scrutiny as to whether she was qualified for the job or whether she was appointed for political reasons by President Biden. Before serving as the director of the presidential security agency, Cheatle served as the Senior Director of Global Security at PepsiCo. Rep. Fallon instructed her to “go back to guarding Doritos” in light of the abject failure.
Fallon opened his remarks pointing out the absurdity of 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks subverting what should be one of the most elite security forces on the planet. “On your leadership, your agency got outsmarted and out-maneuvered by a 20-year-old. How can we have any confidence that you could stop a trained professionals from a nefarious nation-state?” the representative asked.
The Republican congressman continued illustrating how underprepared the Secret Service was. “Okay, there wasn’t a cat team, the full cat team on site. There wasn’t counter surveillance teams on site. But this is the thing you just said, you have the ability to beef up the security. You knew about the threat and you didn’t, and that’s as telling as it is chilling. We have satellite images from the Butler Fairgrounds.”
Fallon further pressed Cheatle, asking her if she had even taken the time to visit the site of the attempted assassination. “Have you visited the site?” he asked. The disgraced Secret Service director responded, “No, I have not.” Fallon continued, “Nine days and you have not visited the site. Should have been there that night.” he asserted.
The Texas Representative further called out comments from Cheatle that implied that the slope of the roof Crooks was positioned on was too dangerous for Secret Service resources to be installed on. However, Fallon pointed out that counter-snipers were already stationed on a nearby roof that was even steeper than the one in question, blowing apart her argument.
Fallon continued, “So here’s this thing with the slopes you go all up to like 1812 you can go to a 112 which is about as flat as you can get without it being completely flat. And you’re saying that there was a danger safety concern there. But the problem is, Director, you put your counter snipers on a 312 roof, which is steeper than the 112 and by the way, the 112 is ADA compliant, you can build a ramp for a wheelchair on a 112 roof.”
Watch Rep. Fallon sounding off on Cheatle below:
At a later point in his interrogation of Cheatle, the conservative congressman explained how he recreated the assassination attempt from the approximate distance that Crooks was from Trump. Fallon, notably an unprofessional marksman with hardly any experience shooting, was able to place his shots with shocking accuracy and precision, illustrating how Trump surviving the shooting was a miracle.
“I have never had any long gun training in my life. I own an AR15. And last time I shot it, I shot it one time my whole life was six years ago. That is until Saturday, where we recreated the events in Savoy, Texas, we recreated what happened to Butler. I was lying prone on a sloped roof at 130 yards at 6:30 at night, and I knew that he had a scope. I didn’t know a kind of red dot or magnifier. So I shot eight rounds from both you know what the result was, 15 out of 16 kill shots, and the one I missed would have hit the president’s ear. That’s a 94% success rate,” he said.
Fallon concluded his comments by unapologetically stating that Cheatle should resign from her position and return to a security job that isn’t responsible for protecting the lives of those who serve the United States from the Oval Office. “I believe your horrifying ineptitude and your lack of skilled leadership is a disgrace. You’re obfuscating today is shameful. You should be fired immediately go back to guarding Doritos,” he stated.
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