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‘WHOOO!’ Cheer Goes Up At Trump Assassination Hearing When Secret Service Chief Makes Absurd Admission
By Tommy Christopher,
3 hours ago
A cheer went up when Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) got Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to make a stunningly obvious admission at a hearing on the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump .
On Monday, Director Cheatle faced those criticisms at a hearing before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
In one stunning exchange, Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) melted down when Cheatle refused to say that easy access to firearms like the AR-15 makes her job more difficult.
Moskowitz took up Connolly’s line of questioning, finally getting Cheatle to admit that widespread RPG use would complicate the protection game:
REP. JARED MOSKOWITZ: Well, let me ask a — I want to follow up on Representative Connolly’s question, in which you asked about guns and you were not willing to commit that that makes your job harder. This is not about the Second Amendment. If there were over 400 million guns on the streets, if all of those guns were machine guns, would that make your job harder to protect people?
DIRECTOR KIMBERLY CHEATLE: Again, I think weapons are out there —
REP. JARED MOSKOWITZ: If all of those guns were rocket propelled grenades. Would that make your job harder?
DIRECTOR KIMBERLY CHEATLE: Yes, sir.
REP. JARED MOSKOWITZ: Yes. Okay. Thank you! Perfect!
HEARING GALLERY: WHOOO!
REP. JARED MOSKOWITZ: This is not a trick question! Thank you. Okay. I won’t ask the other 15 things I was going to do. I was going to do drone strikes, but it’s okay. So that’s all we were asking.
It creates a challenging environment. It has nothing to do with the infringement of people’s rights. But it does make your job harder. So credit to Representative Connolly for asking that question.
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