U.S. Rep. Dale Strong (R-Monrovia) is joining his colleagues on the House Homeland Security Committee in seeking answers from the FBI, DHS and U.S. Secret Service in an oversight hearing regarding any alleged security failures after the failed assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump on Saturday.
Homeland Security Committee chairman U.S. Rep. Mark E. Green (R-Tenn.) invited DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle to testify before the Committee in an oversight hearing next Tuesday to examine the facts and circumstances surrounding the assassination attempt.
Trump was shot in the ear after 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks climbed a nearby building and fired multiple shots before being killed by Secret Service counter-snipers.
The details on the shooting are relatively scant, with many unanswered questions surrounding the shooter’s ability to gain such easy access to the nearby rooftop from where he fired the shots, why law enforcement failed to respond, and Secret Service’s seemingly scatted and disheveled response in getting Trump to safety.
The request comes after a letter from Green to Mayorkas, in which he demanded, in part, the security plan to secure the perimeter of the event site, including areas such as the building from which the shooter attempted the assassination, communications between or qamong personnel at DHS and the Executive Office of the President related to any potential increase or addition of protective resources to Trump’s security detail; and the briefing materials used by Mayorkas and Cheatle to brief President Joe Biden about the attempted assassination of Trump.
Strong voiced support for the oversight hearing, saying he is “working diligently” to “get the American people the answers they deserve."
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