(FixThisNation.com) – Senate lawmakers left Wednesday’s conference call with the U.S. Secret Service with more questions than answers.
The Secret Service privately briefed Senators about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during the conference call.
However, following the briefing, Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyoming) suggested it was a “100% cover-your-a** briefing.”
His comments come as the Secret Service and its director, Kimberly Cheatle, have come under scrutiny for the failed assassination attempt.
Barrasso’s office claimed no one had “taken responsibility” despite the gunman being “identified as suspicious one hour before the shooting.”
Barrasso noted that the gunman had a “rangefinder” and “backpack,” yet the “Secret Service lost sight of him.”
He noted that “No one has taken responsibility,” nor has anyone been “held responsible,” despite someone dying and Trump almost being killed. He then suggested that Cheatle “needs to go.”
Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn (Tennessee) described being “appalled” when she learned the Secret Service knew about the threat before Trump took the stage at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
She later took to X to share that she didn’t have “confidence in the leadership of Director Cheatle” and called for her to step down “in the best interest of our nation.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) joined the chorus in calling for Cheatle to step down, explaining that the country deserved answers.
On Monday, Cheatle revealed the Secret Service would be cooperating with the independent review President Joe Biden had announced.
Meanwhile, more than two dozen Texas lawmakers have called on the House Oversight Committee to investigate the “political rhetoric” aimed at Trump before Saturday’s shooting.
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