Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., spoke with Fox News Digital Friday about the failures of the Secret Service after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump July 13.
Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn slammed Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle for prioritizing a cocktail party over an investigation into the attempted assassination of former President Trump. Cheatle ducked a fuming group of senators who wanted to discuss security lapses that nearly cost Trump his life, but Blackburn and several other lawmakers confronted the embattled security boss Wednesday at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
But Blackburn said Cheatle was occupied with a reception and declined to field their inquiries. "What was not appropriate was that she was there in a luxury suite. She was having a cocktail reception for, as she termed them, their security partners and partners on the convention," Blackburn told Fox News Digital.
"For her to say her priority was to make certain that people had a nice evening, that people had a nice party, that they were able to enjoy that luxury suite, and she did not have time for us. Does she not see the American people as a partner and the work of the Secret Service?" HOUSE GOP LEADERS DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY ON TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: ‘SO MANY QUESTIONS’ Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn confronted Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle at the RNC Wednesday over the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
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