President Joe Biden has just fired himself from the 2024 presidential campaign, but he can’t bring himself to let go the U.S. Secret Service chief whose agency allowed a would-be assassin to climb up onto a sloped roof and nearly take out the GOP’s presidential candidate.
Now, the first House Democrat has called on Kimberly Cheatle to resign amid revelations of more Secret Service failures leading up to and during the attack on former President Donald Trump and others at the July 13 campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told The Federalist that the embattled Secret Service director hadn’t failed by the Biden administration’s standards.
“She did exactly what departments and agencies under Joe Biden are supposed to do, focus more on diversity, equity, and inclusion than the mission of their departments and agencies,” Johnson said in a phone interview with The Federalist Sunday afternoon. “That’s why we have guys wearing dresses and stealing women’s luggage in airports so they can get a new wardrobe.”
Damning Evidence
On Sunday, Johnson, the former chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, released preliminary findings about last weekend’s assassination attempt. He said his office — immediately after the shootings that wounded Trump and two others and killed another — began reaching out to federal, state, and local government entities and private companies “seeking information about the security failures at the rally.”
Johnson said his office is sharing the findings thus far in the spirit of transparency and
