Long before the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump Saturday night focused a harsh light on the Secret Service, the presidential security agency was already facing difficult questions about its capability, training, recruitment and emphasis on diversity.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Saturday night demanded the Secret Service provide Congress immediate answers as to how it failed to stop the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
Comer announced just hours after Trump survived the attack that he would be demanding testimony from the head of the Secret Service as well as documents and other evidence.
"I have already contacted the Secret Service for a briefing and am also calling on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to appear for a hearing," he said on X. "The Oversight Committee will send a formal invitation soon."
Criticism of the Secret Service spread quickly on social media from X owner Elon Musk to members of Congress And several urged home and security secretary, Alejandro Mallorca to reconsider his denial of Secret Service resources for third-party presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr. "Extreme incompetence or it was deliberate. Either way, the SS leadership must resign," Musk wrote.
A petition within the Secret Service has reportedly been circulating because of the incidents and called for a congressional investigation into the Secret Service, according to Comer.
Comer mentioned the incident in a letter to Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, and asked for a briefing on how the Secret Service is responding to the allegations of "Inadequate training."
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