SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR Cheatle in HOTSEAT
On Monday, Representative Nancy Mace, a Republican from South Carolina, called Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s admission that she had “no idea” how her opening statement for the House Oversight Committee meeting on the shooting at the Trump rally got leaked to media outlets “bulls—.”
The legislator from South Carolina made the venomous statement after Mace gave him a series of yes/no questions regarding the Secret Service’s handling of former President Trump’s attempted assassination in Pennsylvania. Cheatle responded “yes,” stating that it was a “colossal failure” and a tragedy that could have been avoided.
“Would you consider it politically incorrect to have leaked your opening statement to Politico’s Playbook, Punchbowl News, and the Washington Post a few hours before sending it to this committee? Yes or no?” Mace enquired of Cheatle.
Cheatle shot out, “I have no idea how my statement got out,” to which Mace shot back, “Well, that’s bulls—.”
Rep. Nancy Mace grilled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle on Monday, July 22, during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee.
About three or four hours before she claimed that Cheatle’s statement had been received by the House Oversight Committee, Mace began citing news reports that had been published between five and seven a.m. ET.
“Have you provided all audio and video recordings in your possession to this committee, as we asked on July 15?” Mace then questioned Cheatle. “Yes or no?” Cheatle responded with a simple, “I would have to get back to you,”
“That’s not acceptable. Today you’re full of shit.” Mace said to Cheatle, “You’re just being completely dishonest,” but was cut short when someone called for decorum within the hearing room of the Capitol Hill Rayburn House Office Building.
“You are lying or acting dishonestly. You’re not being truthful with this committee,” Mace went on. “The American people want answers to these significant questions and all you’re doing is avoiding it and making generalizations about it. To be here, we had to subpoena you. You also refuse to respond to any of the queries. You have been questioned by us on several occasions. This is not difficult. These are hardly challenging inquiries.”
Outside the hearing room where Cheatle was testifying on Monday, Mace told Fox News that she is “not taking any of this seriously” and that “the problem is that it’s almost like she’s not afraid to get fired.”
