‘They Failed Us!’ Fox News Contributor Rails Against Secret Service, Calls for Firings

Fox News contributor and former congressman Jason Chaffetz blasted the Secret Service on Saturday after what is now being investigated as an assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania.

Shots rang out during the rally and the moment was captured live on air by thousands of cameras as a bullet whizzed past Trump’s head, piercing his ear, as he described in a post on Truth Social.

Two people are dead, one of them reportedly the shooter, and another has been seriously injured, according to reports.

Trump thanked the Secret Service in his message, and on Fox News, Chaffetz praised the individual agents who dove on top of the president as heroes.

But he lit up the Secret Service overall for their failure in allowing it to be this close of a call in the first place.

“This is a catastrophic failure of the United States Secret Service,” he said. “The men and women who jumped on the former president got in between him and a would-be shooter, they’re heroes.”

“But if there was a person with a gun within proximity to take down the president of the United States, those people have got to be held accountable,” Chaffetz continued. “They should be fired!”

“There is no reason that a gun should be within close proximity that can shoot a former president of the United States. That’s why we have the Secret Service. And they failed us today,” he concluded. “They failed us.”

Former president Barack Obama spoke out about the shooting soon after it happened, and President Joe Biden commented during his remarks on Saturday and issued a statement a while later.

Watch the clip above via Fox News .