House Republicans investigate rooftop used by Trump shooter

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 July 24, 2024

Former U.S. Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle, who resigned this week, was further humiliated by House Republicans on Tuesday.

According to the Daily Mail, House Republicans shot a video from the rooftop where former President Donald Trump's shooter fired the shots that nearly ended his life.

Cheatle had infamously claimed that agents weren't able to be on the rooftop because it was "sloped," and was mocked relentlessly for the claim, as the slope is extremely mild, at worst.

The footage shot by the Republicans came on the same day Cheatle was brutally grilled by members from both sides of the House Oversight Committee.

What's going on?

Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) was one of the Republicans in the video, noting that even at his age of 70, he was easily able to get to the rooftop and walk around comfortably, clearly rebuking Cheatle's claims that it was too dangerous for agents.

"I'm standing at approximately the site where the shooter was," Gimenez said in the video. "As you can see I am a 70-year-old man and this roof is not a big deal."

"So for somebody to tell me that Secret Service couldn't have been here, that's crazy," he said while filming from the shooter's vantage point on the roof. "You can see that you've got a clear line to the president. It's not a hard shot."

Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) also posted a video from the rooftop of the building where the shooter was.

"I'm standing right where the suspect, the sniper, the gunman was," McCaul said in the video "You can see the tree blocking Secret Service on the rooftop of the first house."

"But the second house, see that white roof, that's where the counter sniper team was able to take him out right where I stand," McCaul said, adding, "But the fact is he never should have been up here in the first place."

Social media reacts

Users across social media had their own opinions on the matter, with many mocking Cheatle and the agency for the unbelievable security failures of that fateful day.

"You've been to the site more times than the secret service director," one X user wrote.

Another X user wrote, "He had a clear line of sight. The CS team had a whole tree in their line of sight. This was intentional."

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