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Secret Service chief to testify to US Congressional panel on Trump’s assassination bid

The FBI is investigating the incident as an assassination attempt. The shooting has raised several concerns regarding the safety and security and gun laws for that matter.

Secret Service chiefRepublican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP )

The US House of Representatives Oversight Committee will record the statements of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle as she has agreed to testify before the house panel for a hearing related to former President Donald Trump’s assassination attempt.

This development remains significant since a security nightmare happened in Pennsylvania last week when a shooter was able to access a rooftop with a direct line of sight of Republican nominee Donald Trump, who survived the shootout.

The FBI is investigating the incident as an assassination attempt. The shooting has raised several concerns regarding the safety and security and gun laws for that matter.

The shooter, Thomas Crooks, who was killed by a US Secret Service sniper shot a rally attendee dead, injured two others while Trump was hurt in his ear.

The House of Representative, which is dominated by the Republicans, said “Americans demand and deserve answers from Director Cheatle about the attempted assassination of President Trump and the Secret Service’s egregious failures,” as reported by Reuters.

The panel informed that the hearing will begin on July 22. President Biden has ordered an independent review in the shootout which almost took the lives of ex-President Donald Trump.

The call for resignation of Director Cheatle has grown as top Republicans in the US Congress demanded her resignation.

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President Biden, in his reaction towards the brazen shootout, said at the Oval Office that “All of us now face a time of testing as the election approaches.” “There is no place in America for this kind of violence — for any violence. Ever. Period. No exception. We can’t allow this violence to be normalized,” Biden said.

Biden added that the political rhetoric needs to come down in the US and urged the citizens not to propagate fake news or conspiracy theories around the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

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