Amid widespread speculation of underperformance following Saturday’s attempted assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, the director of the U.S. Secret Service has released a statement to try to reassure Americans before the start of the Republican National Convention.
The statement, released Monday by Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, said the agency had things under control on Saturday and will continue its diligence in protecting the former president.
“Secret Service personnel on the ground moved quickly during the incident, with our counter sniper team neutralizing the shooter and our agents implementing protective measures to ensure the safety of former president Donald Trump,” Cheatle said in the statement. “Since the shooting, I have been in constant contact with Secret Service personnel in Pennsylvania who worked to maintain the integrity of the crime scene until the FBI assumed its role as the lead investigating agency into the assassination attempt. I have also been coordinating with the protective detail for former President Trump and have briefed President Biden on the details of the incident.”
Cheatle said the Secret Service is working with all involved federal, state and local agencies to understand the assassination, how it happened and how we can prevent an incident like this from ever taking place again.
“We understand the importance of the independent review announced by President Biden yesterday and will participate fully,” Cheatle added. “We will also work with the appropriate Congressional committees on any oversight action.”
According to Cheatle, the Pennsylvania assassination attempt has led to many questions about Trump’s security—and the security of others—as the Republican National Convention kicks off this evening in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
“The U.S. Secret Service, in conjunction with our federal, state and local law enforcement and public safety partners, designs operational security plans for National Special Security Events to be dynamic in order to respond to a kinetic security environment and the most up-to-date intelligence from our partners,” she said. “I am confident in the security plan our Secret Service RNC coordinator and our partners have put in place, which we have reviewed and strengthened in the wake of Saturday’s shooting. The security plans for National Special Security Events are designed to be flexible. As the conventions progress, and in accordance with the direction of the president, the Secret Service will continuously adapt our operations as necessary in order to ensure the highest level of safety and security for convention attendees, volunteers and the City of Milwaukee.”
The attempt on Trump’s life in Pennsylvania has many convention attendees understandably more worried about safety than they likely would have been before Saturday’s shooting. But Cheatle says her agency has their backs.
“In addition to the additional security enhancements we provided former President Trump’s detail in June, we have also implemented changes to his security detail since Saturday to ensure his continued protection for the convention and the remainder of the campaign,” she concluded. “The Secret Service is tasked with the tremendous responsibility of protecting the current and former leaders of our democracy. It is a responsibility that I take incredibly seriously, and I am committed to fulfilling that mission.”
Check the roof tops.
Secret Service director kimberly cheatle is unqualified for dog catcher, snot nosed 20 year old punk catcher or anything else. Like biden and the rest of the demoCrap she needs to go…
DEI hire and Biden appointee. They’re not known for actually being competent.
DHS Mayorkas “has total confidence in” his DEI minion and he needs to also pay that price for Sat failure of SS.
After reading her official press release I now know who writes Kamala’s speeches. What a line of BULL$HIT, repeated and restated like a high school kid trying to bluff a teacher. DEI strikes again with incompetence and extreme prejudice.
“…until the FBI assumed its role as the lead investigating agency into the assassination attempt.”
Right now an FBI special agent is furiously typing up the manifesto to plant on the shooters computer.
😉
Then they will tell us that they accidentally destroyed the murderers phone while trying to unlock it.
They opened it…
Remember when, under Donald Trump, the Secret Service lost every single text message from the January 6 insurrection?
Absolutely zero chance thousands of electronic device records evaporated into thin air. Barely a chance a single device’s records were lost. All communications are logged at the carrier. Even if they switched on that very day, there would be records on both carriers. The Secret Service doesn’t control the databases of the carriers and those records do not get deleted by the carrier when a customer switches. Those log files do not take up much memory and stay stored on a server somewhere and those servers are backed up and replicated. How do you think they catch regular crooks?
This from the woman who kept refusing requests for more agents to protect Trump. Who trusts this ex-Pepsico corporate myrmadon.
It’s my understanding that the decision ultimately rests with the office of the POTUS. Is this not the case?
But it’s plain to see from the photo that this woman has recently been bitten. Someone needs to take care of this ASAP.
DEI has consequences beyond wheels falling off planes.
“the woman who kept refusing requests for more agents to protect Trump“
That is an interesting claim, what source or reference do you have to substantiate your assertion?
“Anthony Guglielmi
@SecretSvcSpox
Theres an untrue assertion that a member of the former President’s team requested additional security resources & that those were rebuffed. This is absolutely false. In fact, we added protective resources & technology & capabilities as part of the increased campaign travel tempo“
Not having a good day if all you have is show proofs to contribute. Tick tock you’re running out of clock.
I have had to carry too many cans of 50bmg up on various rooftops after carrying up a M2 to even begin accepting the idea of there not being some presence in the other building let alone on the other rooftop was anything standard for protection of a prospective commander in chief.
I see a lot of people say this or similar things and I tend to agree. However, I note that all of them have the same through-line of a certain type of experience that produces that perspective.
Given that perspective is produced by a combination of training (prior experience of others) and personal experience has to wonder what the actual perspective of USSS truly is.
One also wonders how often they get an acid test in any form.
“If we keep getting lucky, they’ll keep sending us into this shit” comes to mind.
Complacency mixed with marginal competence and a stupidly lucky would be assassin is in many ways far more terrifying than it being at some level encouraged………that it isn’t just one or the other is even more fun. If they think threatening civilians with F15s or nukes means anything if any of the above is true is tragically hilarious.
“…has to wonder what the actual perspective of USSS truly is.”
Based on her statements so far, it looks like an indoctrination of DEI-‘Woke’ bullshit.
I hope an early job of Trump’s as president is to exterminate with prejudice every bit of that poison from the federal government, and re-instate color-blind policies…
She’s just a bureaucrat, covering her ass.
The Secret Service has gone downhill since the days of West and Gordon.
This is another example of what you get from a DEI hire.
It has been allowed.
By you. Ha ha ha ha.
Everybody’s guilty but you?
How biden of you.
Funny comment by jwm, but you’re exactly right. They’re focused on the priority of “diversity” instead of the priority of excellence. She’s on video claiming that it’s imperative to have more women in Secret Service. Why? Answer: ideology.
Who has a DEI boss b.
“the days of West and Gordon”
Well, you know, those were fictional TV characters…
Of course, like many conservatives, whatever you see on the flickering screen is ‘Truth’.
‘Colored lights can hypnotize,
Sparkle someone else’s eyes’
Remember boys and girls she got her qualifications to be the Secret Service Director from working at Pepsi.
The icon pic….> https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/2427783/donald-trump-shooting.webp?w=790&f=d9cdc0d3f2ce186dbdf6b2c6239a974c
What a picture. Trump alive, defiantly refusing to back down, takes a bullet and bounces back and ready to keep going, with the American flag in the background. That exemplifies (part of) the very spirit of freeing us from British rule with the Revolutionary War, its the spirit thousands of our brave men and woman have exhibited on the battlefield, its the spirit that made America great.
On the other hand, what we have now is a guy who’s mode of operation is … dementia, can’t walk much without falling down, mumbles incoherently, forgets the names of leaders of other countries, wants to do away with constitutional rights, gets lost on stage, tells one lie after another, tries to rule ‘as a king’ by fiat through executive orders to bypass congress so he can create unconstitutional defacto law, falls asleep during meetings, gets lost in the rose garden, can’t correctly recite a line from the constitution, and threatens to use military force with F-16’s and nuclear weapons against American citizens, incompetent and is a socialist marxist.
“threatens to use military force with F-16’s and nuclear weapons against American citizens“
I keep seeing this claim, but no one ever posts a reference or citation.
When did Joe Biden threaten to employ F-16s and nuclear weapons against American citizens?
I saw a report earlier today that the local sheriff said that a deputy was boosted onto the roof. The shooter turned his rifle on the deputy who then dropped to the ground. The story said the shooter then immediately turned to Trump and began shooting. If true, that deputy may have saved Trump’s life by rushing the shooter. I only saw the one report, but I’ve been busy since then.
I’ve seen a similar report. If he had engaged the shooter he would have been firing towards the potus and the crowd.
That cop/deputy was screwed no matter what choice he made.
That roof never should have been open.
There should have been a deputy parked up there on that roof.
Local PD should have had a radio link with the Secret Service protective detail to get him off that stage ASAP as soon as the gun was noticed.
Also saw the GoFundMe for the dead supporter’s family is over 2 million so far…
The reports I have seen are basically in-line with that, but reference a ladder.
“Secret Service Director Says All Is Well”
What a relief, like for a minute there I thought they might be under manned, under funded or under whelmed which are the usual excuses.
But everything is cool, so okay.
The dr.ug le.g@[email protected] crowd is angry that President Trump is still alive.
Glad to see some people see the reality of whats going on. What with DEI, hiring the pepsi security LADY, wanting to take Trump out, the shooter being exposed by bystanders and nothing being done, and on and on. Now if the rest of Amerika would wake up. Guess it will boil down again to a minority of folks who will fight to take the country back from these incompetent traitors.
Woman = Female but does NOT = LADY.
There’s part of me that really wonders how much of this is one of the problems von Clausewitz pointed out about a peace-time army falling behind.
Not that they’re going to tell you the truth, but how many serious assassination attempts has the USSS actually had to deal with since 1981?
The other way to say it is: How long have they been resting on their laurels and assuming that they’re top tier when they’re not really being tested and are actually getting rusty?
The “laurels” of the USSS notable for a history of drunks and hooker hounds while on Intl TDY. While perhaps not a deadly as the buffoons at FBI or ATF, but just as despicable a bunch.
If she thinks all is well, she is more demented than Biden. Who in their right mind thinks anything that happened Saturday was a professional executive protection operation, never mind the 45th and eventual 47th President of the United States protective detail? Absolute Keystone Cops/ Laurel and Hardy routine. At least the counter sniper team hit their mark, AFTER ALLOWING SEVERAL SHOTS that killed one and wounded 3. Who was responsible for (and fired over) the prep work risk and threat assessments? 1st order of business, STAND AT PODIUM, IDENTIFY ELEVATED SHOOTING POSITIONS. It’s that simple, THERE, THERE, THERE…and put a 2-person team thereat each location. Use the Secret Service woman who was too short to protect the former president or the 3 that stood around his car and weren’t sure what to do. Maybe not the one that was too flustered to holster her weapon when the car started to move and tucked it under her arm…seriously, she should have been relieved of duty and her weapon at that moment.
… kinda thinking that she had already relieved herself.
Good idea – task fat affirmative action DEI broads from across fedgov to sit on their fat as_ses on rooftops until relieved. Good for nothing else anyhow. Those SS gals are about as useless as every other wanna be chick cop – just shown before the entire world.
It matters not how much she may want to be a policeman (or soldier) they can’t physically DO IT and if will only tear down her body (for which the taxpayer will have bear the cost). MORE feminist BS.
All is not well until Cheatle is removed from the Secret Service.
This woman should be the first to start walking around with a st.rap on dil.do. Well fitted for public attire.
It would be a great public distraction. Just like the two h0.mo.se.xua.l men, having s.ex, with each other, in an empty public meeting room.
Then she can say, “I’m being attacked because of my s.exu.al orie.nt.ati.on.”
She can’t say anything comprehensible with all her “wife’s” short & curlies stuck between her teeth hampering her speech.
With drones capabilities available today airborne drones hovering over possible avenues of attack distance rooftops, water towers etc. ….this should have been a no brainer to expand surveillance . Supplemented my secret service over watch (snipers) …..this was a real 21st century failure !!
They fired the A-team of the Secret Service back in 2012, and then the director, to make it a “PC” Secret Service. The woman appointed to run drove it into the ground.
That filthy carpet-munch ought to resign (she won’t/she has no shame) and resume her previous duties …. growing/grooming her leg & armpit hair while guarding expired bags of Cheetos and cases of discontinued Pepsi Light in a deserted warehouse.
In Japan, two hundred years ago, if you screwed up this bad, you would disembowel yourself.