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While most lawmakers used Monday’s congressional hearing featuring now-former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to try to determine what exactly happened to allow a would-be assassin to shoot former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally, one congressman twisted the hearing to push his anti-gun agenda.

Democrat U.S. Rep. Gerald Connelly of Virginia repeatedly tried to badger Cheatle into saying that if so-called “assault weapons” were banned it would make the agency’s job easier. And when she refused to say what he wanted her to, Connelly got visibly angry.

In a video detailing the exchange, Philip Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, pointed out that Connelly is anti-gun to the point that he can’t think of hardly anything else.

“He’s frankly an embarrassment to the commonwealth,” Van Cleave said. “He should never, ever have been elected to Congress. And apparently he has some anger management issues.”

As Van Cleave explained, the rest of the congressmen were trying to get to the bottom of how Trump was ever in a position where somebody could get shots off at him—which was the purpose of the hearing.

“Those congressmen were worried about that, but no, not Jerry Connelly, no, no, no,” he said. “For him, it was all about guns. It’s hilarious how this turned out, watching him get red-faced when he wasn’t’ getting what he wanted from Ms. Cheatle.”

In the exchange, Connelly first asked Cheatle to agree with him by phrasing his question in a somewhat weird way that seemed to be sarcastic.

“There are some things my friends on one particular side of the aisle don’t really want to talk about, like AR-15s and access to them by a 20-year-old—or anybody for that matter,” Connelly said to Cheatle. “The ubiquity of guns in America, especially of assault weapons or semi-automatic weapons, has helped your job and the mission of your agency, right? It’s made it less complicated, isn’t that true?”

Of course, the question was so poorly framed that Cheatle didn’t understand what Connelly was asking. When she asked him to clarify the question, he took another, similarly confusing tact.

“Real simple: More guns—especially dangerous ones—have made your job of protecting people easier, right?” he asked.

As Van Cleave pointed out, “Here we see Gerry Connelly trying to be too smart by half. He’s trying to be clever in his wording. He’s trying to say, ‘Guns make security so much harder, especially people having AR-15s.’ He asked the question in a convoluted way, then he’s surprised when she doesn’t know what the hell he’s saying.”

When she tried to answer, Connelly interrupted her after about four words.

“Director Cheatle: It’s simple. More guns, do they make your job more complicated or less complicated in protecting these 36 clients and visiting heads of state and heads of government that come to Washington?” Connelly asked rudely.

As Cheatle continued to not answer the way he wanted, Connelly appeared to get angrier and angrier, asking the same question over and over again hoping she would capitulate. To her credit, Cheatle never agreed with his more guns, more danger assessment.

To watch the entire ridiculous exchange and Van Cleave’s entertaining analysis, click here.

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33 COMMENTS

  2. I would prefer her to blame guns. Especially during an election season.

    It will go very well together, when Chiraq burns to the ground, during the Democrat convention there.

    “Defund the police”

  3. the strongest arms controls in the world mean little if security is poor. look at Shinzo Abe in Japan.

  4. The murderous punk would have done as well with a Savage axis. BTW did anyone “turn in” their AR in ILLANNOY??? Anyone?

  5. Questions like that would be called “leading the witness” in a criminal court.

    • “leading the witness”

      One may ask leading questions if the witness is hostile.

      “When a party calls a hostile witness, an adverse party, or a witness identified with an adverse party, interrogation may be by leading questions. Leading questions are the primary mode of examination of witnesses who are hostile to the examining party, and are not objectionable in that context.“

      • As – “Miner did your mother spike on you head and how many times? or was it “accidental”?”

      • But not giving the answer the asker is looking for does not fit the definition of a hostile witness.

  6. Rep Connolly got pretty defensive/angry/aggressive and the enforcement of a “red flag” law (ERPO) may be necessary.

  7. As I posted earlier, a politically correct, Senile Sock Puppet President Joe Biden recommended, 12 gauge shotgun loaded with “harmless buckshot,” would have unleashed swarms of potentially lethal projectiles.

    Anyone who would dispute the potential lethality of buckshot at moderate range should utilize this online ballistics calculator:

    http://www.ctmuzzleloaders.com/ctml_experiments/shot-ballistics/shotgunning.html

    Google Earth indicates a range between the roof peak of the building and POTUS Trump of about 150 yards. At that range, the retained velocity would be about half the muzzle velocity or about 650 feet per second. That velocity is more than sufficient to penetrate a human skull.

    While a headshot against President Trump would be unlikely even with eight rounds fired, the pattern diameter of about twelve feet would ensure a few hits to Trump as well as multiple hits to multiply bystanders. Multiple fatalities would be almost certain.

  8. I was very amused at that Jackass trying and trying to get her to “say the words” what a douchbag.

  9. I watched the entire hearing and I was genuinely impressed with Cheatle. She did not give in to anyone on either side and especially, how she refused to throw the AR 15 under the bus to the demonicRats. Connolly was not the only demonicRat to badger her about the use of an AR but she refused to cave.

    Intelligent people or people without an agenda know that the rifle used is not relevant to this particular issue.

    • ctually, a Remington 700 with 7.62 x 51 deer or elk loads would have been far more deadly. And if anyone wants to make a case for the bolt action being a detriment to its lethality, allow me to substitute a BHP chambered in 7.62 x 59 Six rounds without moving from position.

      I will bet some very handy individual could pretty easily take some existing bits and an original five rund mag and craft a handful of thutty rounders……mahing that “deer rifle”far more capable than almost anything but an AR 10, but its a pretty rifle not black and ugly and won’t be very likely to generate the screaming fantods from some wailing crybaby mindblown over a “military” rifle within ten miles of his sorry self.

    • Maybe Zoe Saldana was selected for the movie role because she looks more like Kamala Harris than Nina Simone. Vanity, thy name is . . . !

  13. Gerry’s head looks an awful lot like a softball ….. and what pray tell do we do with softballs?

  14. “pointed out that Connelly is anti-gun to the point that he can’t think” of hardly anything else.

  15. talk to me after u congress twats give up your 24/7 ‘fully automatic’ protection. until then, ucanskdk.

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