by Debra Heine
Kimberly Cheatle, the head of the US Secret Service who finds herself in a hard position, said on Tuesday that the reason no agents were stationed on top of the building that the assailant used to assassinate Donald Trump is because of the building’s slightly sloping roof. considered threatening for agents to navigate.
In an interview with ABC News on Tuesday, Cheatle explained why the building, just 500 feet from where Trump spoke, was a no-law enforcement zone on Saturday.
“This building has a peaked roof at its highest point. And, you know, there’s a safety factor there that has to be considered, that we wouldn’t want to put anyone on a peaked roof,” she said. “And, you know, the decision was made to secure the building from the inside.”
In the photo above from Getty Images, two FBI agents can be seen standing effortlessly atop a building on Sunday.
Cheatle told ABC News that the Secret Service knew the building’s location so close to the rally posed security risks, but the decision was made not to station any personnel on the roof due to security concerns.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) invited possessed by DEI Director of the Secret Service show up at the Capitol for a security breach hearing on July 22.
As American greatness reported yesterday, the shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was identified as a person of interest nearly a half-hour before the shooting began. But somehow agents inside the building didn’t know he was right on top of them.
“The shooter was in fact identified as a potential suspect,” Cheatle told ABC News. “Unfortunately, due to the rapid developments, when they finally found that individual, he was on the roof and could have fired shots at the former president.”
“It was unacceptable,” Cheatle told ABC. “And it shouldn’t happen again.”
She said “I am responsible for this” but continues to defy calls to step down.
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Debra Heine is a reporter for American Greatness.
Photo “Members of the United States Secret Service” by United States Secret Service.
