House Oversight Chairman James Comer tore into the Secret Service for its failures in leadership that led to multiple assassination attempts on former President Donald Trump.
In an exclusive interview that aired Friday on the John Solomon Reports podcast, Comer explained, "They don't have a money problem. They have a leadership problem and it's going to take more than new leadership. It's going to take a whole new culture at the Secret Service to protect whoever the President is in the future."
Americans looked on in horror when Trump was shot at a rally in Pennsylvania and immediately it became clear that the Secret Service had dropped the ball in an egregious manner.
The shooter was allowed to climb on top of a building a couple of hundred yards from Trump's stage with a scoped rifle. In terms of rifles, a couple hundred yards is nothing, and considering there was a counter-sniper team at the rally, there was no excuse for the Secret Service to miss the shooter.
There are only two answers that explain the failures of July 13th; either the Secret Service was grossly incompetent and leadership must be cleaned out or there was a conspiracy involving the Secret Service to allow an assassin to take a shot at Trump.
Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), who sits on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations echoed Comer's observation about the Secret Service.
Johnson stated, "They have plenty of resources, plenty of personnel. What they have is bad management, and unfortunately, we can't get to the bottom of who's responsible for making the decisions that were such spectacular failures in terms of protecting President Trump."
Leadership made decisions that directly contributed to putting Trump's life in danger.
What's worse, the Secret Service's leadership woes have been an ongoing problem for years that have only been brought into the view of the public thanks to a presidential candidate almost being killed.
Comer went on to say, "What we learned from our hearing in the Oversight Committee with Kimberly Cheadle, the former disgraced head of the Secret Service, is we have an agency tasked with protecting the president and the presidential candidates, and they're not up to the up to the job. They're ill-prepared."
Once again, the question becomes are those in charge of the Secret Service genuinely incompetent or are they purposely leaving the door open for a shooter to change American history?
The Secret Service failed to use drone technology to surveil the site of Trump's rally in Pennsylvania which would have spotted Trump's assassin long before he had a chance to take shots at Trump.
The Secret Service also failed to use drones to scout out the golf course where the 2nd assassin was preparing to take shots at Trump last week. There is now a pattern of repeated failures to use existing cheap technology to enhance the Secret Service's ability to protect Trump.
Thankfully, an agent saw the 2nd assassin before Trump came into view and engaged the assassin leading to a police chase and his eventual arrest.
There is still much work to be done to clean up the Secret Service and at this point, Cheadle's resignation is likely not going to be the last if the Secret Service is going to improve its culture and capability.
