Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was at the RNC convention last night, and ended up running like a scared rabbit after getting confronted by an irate Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), and Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).

The American people deserve answers from the Secret Service. pic.twitter.com/PNFF11v00Q

— Marsha Blackburn (@VoteMarsha) July 18, 2024

The information regarding what the Secret Service did, and didn’t do prior to and during the Trump Rally in Pennsylvania gets more concerning by the minute. And, rightfully so, we ALL need answers. 

“We’re going with you”

“Don’t walk away from us”

GOP Sens. Blackburn, Barrasso and others confront Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle in Milwaukee: pic.twitter.com/irPjONSjoR

— Jesse Byrnes (@jessebyrnes) July 18, 2024

Yesterday the FBI and DHS held a briefing with Senators and Congressman. The information, what little there is, coming from that briefing is incredibly troubling. 

What’s also infuriating, as Barrasso and Blackburn make clear, is that questions were NOT answered during that briefing. And then, this morning we find out that Senators were only allowed to ask FOUR questions. That’s it. FOUR. 

The USSS Senate briefing was unbelievably uninformative.

Only 4 questions were allowed.

The rest of us are supposed to submit questions. I already have. Awaiting a response.

Not holding my breath. pic.twitter.com/PJUpCYXOPz

— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) July 17, 2024

Now, I’ve never ever seen John Barrasso that ticked off. Ever. Given that the FBI and DHS, who are answerable to WE THE PEOPLE, restricted Senators to only four questions is well beyond the pale. I fully understand how that would piss Barrasso off. It should tick everyone off. Well, except for the New York Times, who has their shorts in a knot. How DARE they question Cheatle’s brilliance so aggressively??

The video, which Ms. Blackburn also posted on X, shows Mr. Barrasso berating Ms. Cheatle over why Mr. Trump was allowed to go onstage for his Saturday evening rally in Butler, Pa., when authorities had already identified as suspicious a man who turned out to be the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks.

“You put him within less than an inch of his life,” Mr. Barrasso said to Ms. Cheatle, almost yelling. “So resignation or full explanation.”

I want her resignation. But what I want FIRST is answers. 

This is insane pic.twitter.com/tJWyi02Fs2

— Mason (@webdevMason) July 18, 2024

Furthermore, despite the Secret Service’s attempt to throw local law enforcement under the bus, they aren’t having it. 

Butler County PA commissioner completely destroyed the Secret Service narrative. Kim Cheatle and Secretary Mayorkas are directly responsible for the death of Corey Comperatore and President Trump’s shooting pic.twitter.com/q9VtVivwYQ

— Jay Willis (@JayPWillis) July 17, 2024

Good for them in telling the feds to go pound sand. I was listening to his interview with Fox News yesterday and he made it very clear that their officers were only assigned to traffic duty. NOT perimeter security. 

Which brings me back to last night’s confrontation. 

“You knew an hour out you had a suspicious person. And at 5:51, according to the timeline of your deputy, you identified a potential threat. And then at 5:53, you told or someone told the [Secret Service counter] sniper that he was there. But can you give us an explanation, why would anyone allow the president to go on stage when you know that you’ve got a potential threat?”

Ms. Cheatle declined to answer.

“I don’t think this is the forum to have this discussion,” she said, telling the senators they were standing in a hospitality suite set up to thank the partners who helped provide security for the convention.

“I would not want to take away from their evening by ruining this,” she said.

Let’s let the people have fun mmmkay? Let’s not harsh their party vibe. What a load of crock. 

That’s the key there missy. The Secret Service is in charge. Period. They don’t get to try and throw people under the bus, when it becomes inconvenient to their narrative. 

TRAUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT | LATEST:

– Thomas Crooks visited site of rally day before event, per NBC

– Was photographed 62 minutes before shooting

– SS counter-snipers spotted him 20 minutes before attack

– Cell phone depicted livestream of rally, per NBC

– Still no motive pic.twitter.com/ZxqRDGsMS3

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 17, 2024

The Secret Service failed. The failure starts at the top with not only Kimberly Cheatle, it starts with DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray. 

You don’t get to show up at a convention that YOU should be ensuring is fully 1000% secure and not expect to answer for your failures just a few days before. A failure that ended with two Americans gravely injured, and the death of firefighter Corey Comperatore. It is by a sheer miracle that President Trump turned his head at the very last second, otherwise we’d be mourning not one, but two Americans. 

Kimberly Cheatle doesn’t get to run from questions. There’s no excuse for her rabbiting away when the heat gets a little too intense. She needs to be held accountable and we Americans, who pay her salary, have every right to know the details behind her failure at Saturday’s Trump rally.

Feature Photo Credit: Original artwork by Victory Girls Darleen Click