Monday, July 15, 2024

Secret Service Head Says Rally Shooting 'Unacceptable'; Mayorkas Calls It a 'Failure' (Connecting the Dots: ABC News, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, Alejandro Mayorkas & Soros Funding, All Networking)

Secret Service Head Says Rally Shooting 'Unacceptable'; Mayorkas Calls It a 'Failure' (Connecting the Dots: ABC News, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, Alejandro Mayorkas & Soros Funding, All Networking)

Monday, 15 July 2024 07:03 PM EDT

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/kimberly-cheatle-rally-shooting/2024/07/15/id/1172650/

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said on Monday that the Trump rally shooting was "unacceptable," but that she would not resign her post.

"I am the director of the Secret Service, and I need to make sure that we are performing a review and that we are giving resources to our personnel as necessary," Cheatle told ABC News on Monday.

Earlier in the day, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas called the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday a "failure" of the Secret Service, which is housed within his department.

"An incident like this cannot happen," Mayorkas told CNN. "That is precisely why President [Joe] Biden directed an independent review — so that that review, its conclusions, and its recommendations have the full confidence of the American public.

"We will carefully analyze in an independent and thorough fashion what occurred. Recommendations will be made. Those recommendations will be implemented."

When pressed on whether the shooting was a "failure" of the agency, Mayorkas confirmed that it was.

"When I say that something like this cannot happen, we are speaking of a failure," he said. "We are going to analyze — through an independent review — how that occurred, why it occurred, and make recommendations and findings to make sure it doesn't happen again.

"I couldn't be clearer," Mayorkas added.

Mayorkas echoed  President Joe Biden's comments about the attempt on Trump's life and called for a cooling of the country's political rhetoric.

The Secret Service has come under intense scrutiny since a gunman opened fire from a nearby rooftop during Trump's campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. The former president's ear was grazed by a bullet, while former fire chief Corey Comperatore, 50, was killed shielding his family during the attack. Rallygoers David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 74, were initially listed in critical condition, but were listed as stable as of Sunday.

Congressional Republicans have promised to launch investigations into the assassination attempt, and Biden has ordered an independent review of security measures at the rally.

Secret Service Director Cheatle said the agency would cooperate with both the independent review and congressional inquiries. She is slated to testify before the House Oversight Committee on July 22.

Connecting the Dots:

Kati Marton was the Bonn bureau chief for the ABC News and is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee.  

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee.  

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Indra K. Nooyi is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee and the chair & CEO for PepsiCo, Inc.

Dina Dublon was an overseer at the International Rescue Committee and is a director at PepsiCo, Inc.

Kimberly Cheatle served as Senior Director in Global Security at PepsiCo. and is the 27th director for the U.S. Secret Service.

U.S. Secret Service is a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Alejandro N. Mayorkas is the secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for the Joe Biden Administration and was an attorney at O'Melveny & Myers LLP.

Thomas E. Donilon was a partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, the White House deputy national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration and a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr. is a partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP and a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).  

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank) and the Children's Defense Fund.  

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Alexandra Wentworth is a director at the Children's Defense Fund and married to George Stephanopoulos.

George Stephanopoulos is married to Alexandra Wentworth and was a chief Washington correspondent for the ABC News.

Resources: Past Research

Exposed: George Stephanopoulos Hid $50K Clinton Foundation Donation From Viewers (Past Research on ABC News)

THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2015

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/05/exposed-george-stephanopoulos-hid-50k.html

Biden Calls for Unity After Trump Assassination Try (Connecting the Dots: Alejandro Mayorkas, Department of Homeland Security, Merrick Garland, Jake Sullivan, Kim Cheatle, U.S. Secret Service, PepsiCo & Soros Funding All Networking) (Past Research on PepsiCo & Kim Cheatle)

SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2024

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2024/07/biden-calls-for-unity-after-trump.html

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