“I've been very disappointed in her and her lack of candor,” he said in an interview at the CNN-POLITICO Grill in Milwaukee.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who was injured in a politically motivated shooting in 2017, called on Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle to step down following the agency’s failure to prevent the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday. “I've been very disappointed in her and her lack of candor,” Scalise said in an interview at the CNN-POLITICO Grill in Milwaukee.
He did have some praise for the FBI, though, for immediately identifying the shooting as an assassination attempt, comparing this to the agency’s decision in 2017 to approach a shooting at a practice for the Congressional Baseball Game as a “suicide by cop.” “I think the Secret Service head should have been out publicly right away. ... You had the local law enforcement giving a press conference, frankly, being asked questions that the head of service should have been asked,” he said.
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