In the wake of the attempted assassination of former President Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) called for the resignation of Kimberly Cheatle, the director of the Secret Service, on Wednesday.
In addition, Johnson declared that he would establish a legislative task force to coordinate inquiries into the security lapses surrounding Trump’s event on Saturday, which led to a 20-year-old gunman shooting and wounding the president, killing one attendee, and critically hurting two more.
“I’m going to call for resignation as well,” Johnson said during a recent appearance on Fox News.
Even though other Secret Service snipers were positioned on a roof that was also sloped, he made reference to Cheatle in an interview with ABC News when he stated that there were no law enforcement agents stationed on the roof from which the shooter fired because the “sloped roof” posed safety issues.
Tensions between the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have been raised by the investigation into the assassination attempt, which has been investigated by at least six committees in both houses of Congress.
Johnson claimed that the investigations will be expedited by the House task group being established.
“We’re going to move quickly. I’ll be setting up, on Monday, a task force, a special task force within the House. And the reason we’re going to do it that way, is because that is a more of a precision strike.” Johnson said.
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