Secret Service Investigating Why Threat of Trump Gunman Wasn’t Communicated, Director Says
Published on July 22, 2024
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle told a House Oversight panel Monday that her agency is still investigating questions about why a Trump rally was allowed to continue even though members of the crowd saw Thomas Matthew Crooks on the roof of a building. “We are still combing through communications and when communications were passed,” Ms. Cheatle said, adding that the Secret Service would have stopped the rally if they knew there was an actual threat to former President Donald Trump on July 13. She added, “I don’t know all of the communications” on that day, adding officials are “going back and looking at communications to know when the information about a suspicious person was passed to Secret Service personnel.”...