JULY
29
2024
Acting Director of the U.S. Secret Service Testifies in a Open Door Senate Hearing
Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. was left visibly shaken after a heated exchange with Sen. Ted Cruz , a Republican from Texas, over the agency’s reported denial of additional security resources to the Trump campaign leading up to the assassination attempt of the former president.
In a public senate hearing, the Acting Director testified about the attempted assassination attempt of Donald J. Trump, as former Secret Service Director, Kimberly Cheatle resigns.
The new "acting" director took the hot seat today and was savaged with harsh questions from law makers.
“I believe the Secret Service leadership made a political decision to deny these requests,” Senator Ted Cruz asserted. “And I believe the Biden administration has been suffused with partisan politics.”
Rowe replied, “Secret Service agents are not political.”
Notably, Rowe was “directly involved” in the Secret Service’s decision to deny additional security for past Trump rallies leading up to the MAGA rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to RealClearPolitics.
Cruz said that Secret Service leadership is appointed by the president and is therefore a political position.
Rowe’s own background is deeply political: he had previously worked in the Obama White House and under Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy (D).
The new "acting" Director of the Secret Service claimed in the hearing today that he is a "25-year member of law enforcement." However, reports contradict those claims.
"FYI, Acting Secret Service Director Ronald L. Rowe, Jr. worked for: 1. Obama White House 2. Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT) Don't let him pretend he is a career, non-partisan law-enforcement official. He's a former partisan Democrat staffer."
Meanwhile, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) savaged FBI representatives during a congressional hearing Tuesday, brutally mocking the agency after Director Christopher Wray last week claimed he didn’t know if Donald Trump had been hit by a bullet.
“Is there any doubt in your mind or in the collective mind of the FBI that President Trump was shot in the ear by a bullet fired by the assassin?” Sen. Kennedy asked FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate.
Abbate responded, “Senator, there is absolutely no doubt in the FBI’s mind whether former President Trump was hit with a bullet and wounded in the ear.”
“No doubt. There never has been,” Abbate added, contrasting with testimony Wray gave to the House Judiciary Committee last week.
Sen. Kennedy pressed forward, asking, “You’re sure? It wasn’t a space laser.”
“No,” Abbate replied.
“It wasn’t a murder hornet?” Kennedy sarcastically inquired.
“Absolutely not,” responded Abbate.
“It wasn’t Sasquatch?” Kennedy continued, before establishing, “It was a bullet fired by [would-be assassin Thomas Matthew] Crooks.”
The senator’s derisive line of questioning was intended to highlight questionable remarks last week by FBI Director Christopher Wray, in which he appeared to feed into leftist conspiracy theories that Trump may not have been shot by a would-be assassin.
AP: Senior officials from the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Judiciary Committees about the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump.
The hearing comes one day after the FBI released new details about its investigation into the shooting, revealing that the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, had looked online for information about mass shootings, power plants, improvised explosive devices and the May assassination attempt of the Slovakian prime minister.
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