Lankford Gets Answers about Secret Service Security Failures in Trump Assassination Attempt

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WASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today directly questioned leadership of the US Secret Service (USSS) in a joint hearing of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Judiciary Committees entitled, “Examination of the Security Failures Leading to the Assassination Attempt on Former President Trump.” Witnesses at today’s hearing included USSS Acting Director Ronald L. Rowe, Jr., and Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Paul Abbate. Following the hearing, Lankford joined Fox Business’ “Cavuto: Coast to Coast” to continue the calls for accountability from USSS.

After the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump, Lankford immediately demanded answers from then USSS Director Kimberly Cheatle about the security failures regarding the protection of the President at the event and the overall security protocols for President Biden and others to ensure the American people can once again gain confidence that those under Secret Service detail are as safe as possible.

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 Lankford: I want to ask you about some of the interviews that have happened. You all have done more than 400 interviews at this point. For the counter-sniper team that was local law enforcement, that was on the second floor overlooking that rooftop, have they been interviewed at this point?

Abbate: Yes, Senator, I believe that each of them have been interviewed at this point.

Lankford: Do you know off hand if they were at their post at that time, able to look across at that—at that post at some times, do we know they were at that post at 6:08 to 6:11?

Abbate: My understanding, and I want to be fair, I have not read the reports directly, but I’ve been briefed on some of it—they were at times, during the timeframe we’re talking about, on post within the AGR Building. And I do believe but I would want to confirm this at some point, one or more did venture out in an effort to locate and isolate the…

Lankford: We understand from the timeline that they were also looking for this individual that was suspicious, that they had left that post to try to be able to look for him on the ground, to try to be able to see if they could get a different perspective. What we’re trying to figure out is, during that time period that he actually climbed on the roof, assembled a firearm or took a firearm with him or picked one up or whatever might have been there, that they were actually able to see if, if they were able to look left as been acknowledged in the photos that are up there? 

Abbate: Senator, I don’t know the exact timing and the movements of each officer that was out there but what I would derive is that they were all focused on locating the shooter, this suspicious person at the time as we’ve all seen the one officer attempted to get on the roof directly. There were efforts going on in the final moments on the video to try to get to this person.

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