Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) grilled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle on Monday about whether or not her agency turned down the Trump security team’s requests for more agents before a would-be assassin’s bullet struck former President Donald Trump.
Angry lawmakers from both sides of the aisle questioned Cheatle during Monday’s House Oversight Committee hearing, demanding answers on what went wrong that allowed a former president to narrowly escape a bullet to the head on live television.
Jordan noted that the day after Trump was shot, a Secret Service spokesperson said it was “absolutely false” they had denied Trump’s security team’s requests for more resources. However, several days later, The Washington Post reported that top Secret Service officials had indeed repeatedly turned down Trump’s security’s requests for more personnel, Jordan said.
“So which…
