House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) will subpoena US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to compel her testimony later this month on the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
“While the Secret Service confirmed Director Cheatle was expected to appear for the Committee’s hearing on July 22, to head off any attempt by DHS to backtrack on her appearance, the Chairman will issue a subpoena for her to attend,” a spokesperson for the panel said in a statement.
“Director Cheatle must answer to Congress and the American people about the historic failure that occurred on her watch,” the Oversight rep insisted.
The committee spokesperson also revealed that the Secret Service had indefinitely postponed a briefing of all Oversight panel members that had been scheduled for Tuesday.
“The Oversight Committee has a long record of bipartisan oversight of the Secret Service and the unprofessionalism we are witnessing from current DHS leadership is unacceptable,” the spokesperson thundered.
Trump, 78, came within an inch of death during a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., on Saturday after Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old gunman, was able to elude law enforcement and fire onto the fairgrounds, striking the 45th president in the right ear, killing another attendee and wounding two others.
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