Acting Secret Service director to testify before Senate committees next week

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incoming update…Pinned Acting Secret Service director to testify before Senate committees next weekActing U.S. Secret Service Director Ronald L. Rowe, Jr. will testify before three Senate committees next Tuesday on the July 13 attempted assassination of former President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The hearing, which will also feature testimony from Deputy FBI Director Paul Abbate, is titled “Examination of the Security Failures Leading to the Assassination Attempt on Former President Trump.”

It is a joint hearing between the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senate Homeland Security Committee and the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.

The testimony comes after days of hearings on Capitol Hill this week about the security lapses leading up to the July 13 shooting.

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testified on Monday before the House Oversight Committee, before resigning the following day, while FBI Director Christopher Wray testified to House lawmakers on Wednesday.

Fox News’ Greg Wehner contributed to this report.Posted by Greg Norman ShareRep. Roy says FBI Director Wray is pretty embattled following Trump assassination attempt​

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, told Your World following Christopher Wrays testimony to the House Judiciary Committee that he believes the FBI director is pretty embattled at the moment. 

I think that the FBI director is pretty embattled at the moment you got the former president and current Republican nominee who had an assassination attempt. Secret Service [Director Kimberly Cheatle] has already resigned, Roy said. 

You got the FBI director covering up the fact that they got DEI watering down their standards. You got the FBI director trying to obfuscate the mental competency of the president. You got the FBI director basically acknowledging that they couldnt stop this guy who was a 20-year-old lone shooter who shows up three times ahead of the event and has a drone flying overhead why didnt they have that place locked down? Roy continued. Why didnt they have their own assets flying over it? What is the FBI actually doing? 

Roy also said one thing he found astounding from Wrays testimony on the Trump assassination attempt response is we have this individual who shows up there three times ahead of the event, and then flies a drone 200 yards away and he does that the afternoon of the event and the Federal Bureau of Investigation cant stop this shooter. Posted by Greg Norman ShareTrump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks’ family had 14 guns in home, FBI Director Wray saysTrump rally shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks. (Handout via AFP)

BETHEL PARK, Pa. FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed on Wednesday that Thomas Matthew Crooks’ family had more than a dozen firearms in their Pennsylvania home and that father Matthew Crooks legally sold his son the weapon that the 20-year-old would use in his assassination attempt on former President Trump.

“We located a number of firearms associated with the shooter and his family,” Wray told the House Judiciary Committee. “I think it was a total of 14 in the house.”

“The weapon that he used for the attempted assassination was an AR-style rifle that was purchased legally,” Wray said. “We believe, based on what weve seen, that his father, after purchasing the gun, legally sold the gun to his son.” with a rifle onto a rooftop just outside the rally perimeter.Posted by Christina Coulter ShareHouse unanimously votes to create Trump assassination attempt commissionThe House of Representatives unanimously voted to establish a bipartisan commission to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

No lawmakers voted “no” nor “present,” and 416 voted “yes.” Ten Democrats and six Republicans did not vote.

The task force will be comprised of seven Republicans and six Democrats, with the members likely being announced this week.

House GOP leaders raced the bill to the floor after the deadly shooting at Trumps Butler, Pennsylvania, rally nearly two weeks ago. One attendee died, and two others were injured, with Trump himself getting shot in the ear and evacuated off the stage by the Secret Service.

The vote was bipartisan, as expected the hours following the shooting prompted a flurry of bipartisan condemnations against political violence, as well as scrutiny of the security situation that allowed a 20-year-old gunman with a rifle onto a rooftop just outside the rally perimeter.Posted by Elizabeth Elkind Share

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