Those worried that Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle would avoid having to take any responsibility for the near-assassination of former President Donald Trump can finally sigh a breath of relief.
On Monday, the House Oversight and Accountability Committee held a hearing on the disastrous security failure that was the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where a would-be assassin shot Trump.
Though being drilled by career politicians at a House hearing might not seem like enough, it sure is a start, especially given how hard Republican Texas Rep. Pat Fallon went after Cheatle.
After drilling her for not speaking with agents immediately following the debacle as well as for not properly securing the area ahead of Trump’s rally, Fallon ripped the Secret Service director for her now-infamous “sloped roof” excuse.
Just after the shooting, during an interview with ABC News, Cheatle claimed no Secret Service agents were stationed on the roof from which Thomas Crooks shot Trump because it was “sloped” and therefore unsafe.