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in Milwaukee, determined to get answers about how the agency failed to protect former President Donald Trump from an assassination attempt.
Sens. Marsha Blackburn , John Barrasso , James Lankford , and Kevin Cramer circled Cheatle in public at the convention Wednesday evening and hammered the former Pepsi executive with questions that have gone unanswered in the four days since the attack.“Sen.
After a few minutes of questioning Cheatle, the Secret Service official attempted to dodge and walked away while the senators trailed her. She eventually broke from the lawmakers by taking an escalator upstairs.BREAKING: We just confronted the Secret Service Director at the RNC Convention.Secret Service and FBI officials briefed House and Senate lawmakers in separate private briefings Wednesday afternoon.
Barrasso said the suspect, identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, was flagged as suspicious more than an hour before he ultimately fired on Trump from a nearby rooftop.“He was identified as a character of suspicion because a rangefinder as well as a backpack. And this was over an hour before the shooting actually occurred,” Barrasso told “So, you would think over the course of that hour, you shouldn’t lose sight of the individual.
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