The FBI says that it is taking the lead in investigating the Trump shooting. Director Christopher Wray said this at a press conference on Sunday: “The American people can rest assured that we will leave no stone unturned as we work to get to the bottom of what happened yesterday.”
While the FBI focuses on the motive of the shooter, the American people also want answers for how he was able to set himself up for a shot so close to an American President on a rooftop in plain daylight. The BBC was the first to report that multiple people shouted out to warn law enforcement about this man. The Associated Press reported that a law enforcement officer climbed up on the roof and confronted the shooter before climbing back down again without stopping him.
They also want to know why President Trump’s Secret Service was so full of small women. It’s a valid question. Many of the Secret Service agents who were seen shuffling the President away from the scene of the crime were much smaller than him. The head of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, has previously said that she wanted to “attract diverse candidates” and that she aimed to have 30% female recruits by 2030. Why is that a priority? Shouldn’t the baseline priority of the Secret Service be to have the biggest, baddest human bodies working to secure their charge? Do we have any like this?
The Executive Office of the Presidency is responsible for the Secret Service, which is why President Biden has to answer for this. He says that he has directed an independent review of the incident. the House Oversight Committee Chairman announced that it has opened an investigation into the shooting too and has “invited U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to testify at a hearing on Monday, July 22.”
