Jill Biden Orchestrated Kimberly Cheatle Heading the Secret Service, Now Everyone Is Doubling Down

How exactly did Kimberly Cheatle 

 

rise the lead the United States Secret Service? A new report points the finger at Jill Biden, stating that she and her top advisor pushed for the appointment. 

That decision culminated in an attempted assassination of Donald Trump on Saturday. The former president was shot in the ear, narrowly avoiding death while a chaotic and clumsy response from the Secret Service followed. It was a disastrous event for an agency with a zero-fail mission. 

Embattled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who is facing congressional outcry and calls to resign over security lapses leading to former President Donald Trump’s near-assassination Saturday, landed her role thanks largely to a close relationship with first lady Jill Biden, The Post has learned...

...Four sources close to President Biden’s family, including people who interacted with Cheatle during the Obama-Biden administration, said she was well liked by the future first lady and her most senior aides, including top adviser Anthony Bernal.

“Cheatle served on Dr. Biden’s second lady detail and Anthony pushed for her,” a Democratic insider told The Post. “Anthony has no national security or law enforcement experience. He should have no influence over the selection of the USSS director.”

“I heard at the time she was being considered for director that Anthony had pushed her forward as an option,” another well-placed source told The Post.

This news will no doubt stir further controversy given past reports that Secret Service members were pulled off Trump's detail to bolster a Jill Biden appearance in Pennsylvania on the same day. It's also emblematic of the Biden administration's larger failures. Cheatle is a strong supporter of DEI, having pledged for the Secret Service to be 30 percent female by 2030 as part of a "diversity" push. Unmentioned was why someone's sex is more important than simply hiring the most capable people available, and that includes physical stature given the job at hand. 

That the Bidens would prioritize box-checking over qualifications isn't surprising. What's somewhat surprising is just how defiant Cheatle has been publicly since the assassination attempt. After the shooting, she gave an interview in which she pointedly refused to even consider resigning. 

There was a time when this wouldn't even be a question. What happened on Saturday was the worst Secret Service disaster since Ronald Reagan was shot. In some ways, given modern technology and the fact that the shooter was completely exposed on a low-lying rooftop at a relatively short range, the situation surrounding Trump was a bigger failure. 

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Yet, as has become customary with the Biden administration no one is ever held accountable, and no one ever takes responsibility. Certainly not someone who is intersectional and has the ear of Jill Biden, who many suspect is essentially running the White House. Disgraced DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas gave Cheatle a vote of confidence on Monday. 

None of this is going to change on its own. The only way through this is to vote Biden out of office and fire every single one of these failed department heads.

 

One Line Demolished Biden's Defense of His Mental Health During Sloppy NBC News Interview

President Joe Biden sat down with NBC News’ Lester Holt, which was yet another foray into how this aging president doesn’t have the mental capacity to do the job. Like his sit-down with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, Biden sounded tired and incapable of delivering lines about his mental health and the failed assassination attempt on former President Trump with the confidence and stability needed to quell concerns about his ability to do the job. 

Three things were notable about this interview: Biden seemed incapable or reluctant to take responsibility for increasing the temperature of the so-called heated political rhetoric emanating from liberals in recent months. He also destroyed his talking point on being mentally sharp since he thought his Secret Service director was a man. And the president once again dabbled in poll denialism (via NBC News):

After having tempered attacks on Donald Trump following Saturday’s assassination attempt, President Joe Biden plunged back into campaign mode Monday, defending his decision to remain in the presidential race despite calls for him to exit. 

In an interview with NBC News anchor Lester Holt, Biden at times grew combative and said he isn't leaving the race even though some Democratic leaders have expressed fears that he can't win. 

“I’m old,” Biden said. “But I’m only three years older than Trump, No. 1. And No. 2, my mental acuity’s been pretty damn good. I’ve gotten more done than any president has in a long, long time in 3½ years. So I’m willing to be judged on that.” 

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What's more, Biden said, he's not losing. 

"Look — we knew this — this was going to be a close race from the moment he announced," Biden said. 

"The polling data shows a lot of different things, but there’s no wide gap between us. It’s essentially a toss-up race," he said. 

A new national NBC News poll found that Trump leads Biden by 2 percentage points — within its margin of error. 

The poll also revealed, however, that more than 60% of Democrats say they'd prefer someone else at the top of the ticket, while 80% of all voters said they were concerned about Biden's mental and physical capacities.

Biden’s age is an issue for Democrats any way you cut it: three-fourths of the nation think he’s too old, Biden can’t de-age, and the only way to turn these numbers around is to make more public appearances, which Biden can’t do. The man was gassed after his little trip to Michigan. Biden must do multiple rallies in crucial battleground states until Election Day to change the course of the race, but he will not be able to do it. The gaping wound will continue to bleed until all the ballots are counted, and it’s very noticeable among the electorate. 

Trump also leads Biden in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. The national polls mean bupkis because a close race is a Trump advantage, any way you cut it. Biden must be polling much better nationally to be near a baseline where a path to 270 is possible. Right now, Biden is heading for defeat. 

“My mental acuity’s been pretty damn good,” says the man who referred to Secret Service Director Kimberley Cheatle as a man: 

Seems, um, concerning that the Commander-in-Chief claims to be meeting with top security officials and then gets caught not knowing who those people are https://t.co/zfEpamMtJH

— Sunny (@sunnyright) July 16, 2024

The president also spoke about Trump talking about bloodbaths (a lie) and repeated the “very fine people on both sides” lie against Trump that’s long been debunked, including by left-wing fact-checkers. When Biden was asked about the classified document issues that engulfed him and Trump, the president lost his train of thought. 

LESTER HOLT: "Would you be open to doing [another debate with President Trump] in the next few weeks?"

BIDEN: "I'm going to debate him when we agreed to debate. And I'm going to debate him in September."

HOLT: "But if the opportunity came up to do one between now and then?… pic.twitter.com/A8sIbXowTi

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 16, 2024

It was another sloppy interview, where the president’s mental fitness was displayed again, and he failed miserably. Biden claims he’ll debate Trump in September, though he got angry when pressed if he’d do it sooner. He knows he can’t, and it’s likely that Trump’s iconic image after surviving an assassin’s bullet sealed the election for him. Also, what’s this deal about Biden not needing notes or teleprompters? That’s another total lie from the next national spokesperson for Depend.

Biden touting his 59-minute presser at NATO is emblematic of the problem: it's not an accomplishment, but something that's expected from the president of the United States. It feels like the last time Biden held a presser, the New York Giants were in the Super Bowl. 

I'll leave this here. We're dealing with a terrible man, a psychopath, which is in keeping with the rest of this degenerate family:

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CNN Commentator Drops Outrageous Remarks About JD Vance

There it is—we have hooked the big fish regarding the media’s reaction to Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) being selected as Donald Trump’s running mate. The former president officially clinched the Republican Party’s nomination during yesterday’s roll call. It’s done. Vance upset liberal media members, but also neoconservatives and other wings of the old guard who are at last seeing their influence being erased before their eyes. They had their time—it’s over. 

Yet, CNN’s Van Jones had the take that is the linchpin for the meltdown being exhibited by some over Trump’s pick: Vance is a “virus.” Jones has made decent takes in the past, namely being unafraid to call out his side regarding how the blue wall isn’t as stable as Democrats think and how the Obama coalition is crumbling. This is a bad one, though. And it’s even more unseemly given Donald Trump’s assassination attempt on July 13. 

Let’s tone down the rhetoric by calling people with whom we disagree a “virus”:

Trump…is an instinctive, impulsive, intuitive nationalist. JD Vance is an ideological nationalist. That's a much more dangerous virus because he can polish this stuff and make it seem palatable to people. 

He can sell this stuff to Silicon Valley. He can sell this stuff other places. And what it does is it locks the Republican Party on a pathway that I think is dangerous for the world. Again, the Ukrainians are now in deep trouble. NATO is now in deep trouble. Trump is he could have gone with it with a Nikki Haley and signal to the world. 

Hey, listen, I gotta give stuff to my base, but I'm not going to abandon the world. This pic is a horror on the world stage. 

Vance wasn’t the only clown tossing out ridiculous takes. After day one wrapped, former Biden White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield 

 

said that Democrats need to redirect their fire on Trump. These people, folks—they can’t keep it together for more than 36 hours.

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Secret Service Blames Local Police For Assassination Attempt: Cops Were 'Tasked with Securing Properties' Ahead Of, During Rally

So says the ones that were suppose to protect President John F. Kennedy from assassination. 

The American flag, that served as the backdrop for a campaign rally by former President and current Republican candidate Donald J. Trump, blows in the wind at Butler Fairgrounds in the aftermath of the attempted assassination of the former president on July 14, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump was escorted away by the Secret Service with an injury to his ear.

The Secret Service claims that the rooftop where 20-year-old gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to kill former President Donald Trump was outside the perimeters that the federal agency was entrusted with guarding, while simultaneously holding local police accountable for their “failure to secure it.”

According to Secret Service official Anthony Gugliemi, local Pennsylvania police were in charge of guarding and securing the AGR International Inc. plant grounds, which are roughly 130 yards from the platform where Trump was speaking on Saturday, as reported by the New York Times.

Local police were enlisted to help with those efforts and secure the area outside the rally, according to the Secret Service. The agency went on to reiterate that they were only assigned to guard the grounds where Trump’s rally was held.

However, neighbors close to Butler Farm Show Grounds told reporters that neither local nor federal law enforcement ever paid them a visit in the days preceding or following the rally.

“Nobody contacted me. Nobody. Nobody called me, nobody stopped here,” said Valerie Fennell, a nearby resident whose house comes close to the fairgrounds, just beyond a line of trees.

“I kinda was thinking that as close as my house is, that I honestly thought this might be part of a command station at some point,” she added.

Not only did Fennell claim that no one from law enforcement had gotten in touch with her, but she also said that, despite living so close to the rally, her entire neighborhood had been mysteriously abandoned in receiving any sort of communication.

“I was talking to my neighbors yesterday, and none of them had gotten a call. Or anything,” she continued, while her sister nodded in agreement.

“I guess it’s kind of the same question that everybody has. I guess, as far as like, why that area wasn’t secure.”

CNN reported that attendees saw 20-year-old Thomas Crooks acting strangely close to the rally metal detectors. Local police enforcement was alerted and they purportedly warned the Secret Service to be on the lookout for him over their radios.

In addition, he was said to have been observed entering the rally with a rifle outside of a security checkpoint. Later, he was allegedly seen jumping “roof to roof” before arriving at the AGR facility.

Prior to eventually reacting to reports of an armed man on the AGR roof, it appears that police were unable to locate him during the period those alerts were sent out.

According to law enforcement officials who spoke with the Associated Press, at approximately 6:10 p.m., a local police officer ascended a ladder onto the roof and confronted Crooks, who was  already aiming his gun at him.

Crooks took aim and fired around eight shots at the rally as the officer retreated down the ladder. He struck Trump in the ear, critically injured two more people in the crowd, and killed bystander Corey Comperatore in the audience.

Crooks was then shot dead by Secret Service counter snipers who were positioned on a barn rooftop behind the stage in a matter of moments. It is unclear if the shooters had noticed Crooks prior to the rounds being fired, but they seemed to have their sights focused on him before starting to shoot.

The Secret Service acknowledged that it mostly relied on local law enforcement to assist with event security, stating to the Washington Post that this is “standard procedure” when seeking assistance from local organizations.

The heavily armed agents covering Trump’s evacuation, known as the Secret Service’s counter assault team, consisted of at least six officers from Butler County tactical units in addition to leaving the areas outside the rally perimeter under the jurisdiction of local police. The team consisted of only two members of the Secret Service.

Two local sniper teams supported the two teams of snipers from the Secret Service.

Although Pennsylvania police acknowledged that they often assist the Secret Service when important government figures visit the state, they doubled down and stressed that the federal agency is ultimately in charge.

 “Secret Service always has the lead on securing something like this,” stated Lt. Col. George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police.

“We work with them to provide whatever is requested by the Secret Service, but they’re the lead in that security,” he added.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) announced plans to call agency director Kimberly Cheatle for a hearing on July 22^nd in response to calls for an inquiry of the Secret Service and the circumstances that led Crooks to come within millimeters of almost killing Trump.

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Head Of Biden Re-Election Campaign Says Trump Picked Vance Because He’s Ok With ‘Breaking the Law’

Why are most of the women in the Democrat Party so damn Ugly?

The head of President Biden’s re-election campaign claimed on Monday that Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio.) was chosen by Donald Trump as his running mate because Vance is comfortable with “breaking the law.” 

“Donald Trump picked J.D. Vance as his running mate because Vance will do what Mike Pence wouldn’t on January 6: bend over backwards to enable Trump and his extreme MAGA agenda, even if it means breaking the law and no matter the harm to the American people,” Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement.

Moments after Trump revealed that he had chosen the senator as his running mate, Dillon unleashed an attack on Vance, accusing him of supporting restrictions on abortion and tax cuts for the wealthy.

“Vance has a reputation as one of the most far-right extremists in Washington, endorsing a January 6 rally member for Congress and calling Marjorie Taylor Greene, who trafficks in antisemitism and division, ‘a friend’,” Dillon concluded.

The statement comes a day after Biden called on Americans to “lower the temperature” after the former president was nearly assassinated.

“My fellow Americans, I want to speak to you tonight about the need for us to lower the temperature in our politics and to remember, while we may disagree, we are not enemies,” Biden said in his third primetime Oval Office speech since assuming the presidency.

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Trump Rewrites Convention Speech to Focus on Unity

 

Former President Donald Trump has tossed his original speech for the Republican National Convention and rewritten it to focus on unity following the attempt on his life Saturday.

On Sunday, Trump told the Washington Examiner that he wants to use the historic moment to bring the deeply divided country together.

"The speech I was going to give on Thursday was going to be a humdinger," he said. "Had this not happened, this would've been one of the most incredible speeches" targeting the policies of President Joe Biden. "Honestly, it's going to be a whole different speech now."

Trump told the outlet that he plans to use the address to highlight how the assassination attempt at his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, has completely changed the election landscape, which both Republicans and Democrats have acknowledged following Saturday's attack.

The 45th president said "reality is just setting in" and he was saved from death because he turned to look at a screen showing data he was discussing.

"I rarely look away from the crowd," he said. "Had I not done that in that moment, well, we would not be talking today, would we?"

Boarding his plane in Bedminster, New Jersey, for Milwaukee, where the Republican convention is set to take place Monday through Thursday, Trump said his speech is an opportunity to "bring the country together."

"This is a chance to bring the whole country, even the whole world, together," he said. "The speech will be a lot different, a lot different than it would've been two days ago."

In an early Sunday morning Truth Social post, Trump credited "God alone" for preventing "the unthinkable from happening" and said he would "fear not."

The former president also recognized Corey Comperatore, the former fire chief who was shot and killed protecting his family at the rally, and supporters David Dutch and James Copenhaver, who were wounded and have been moved from critical to stable condition.

Trump said his decision to fist-pump the crowd when Secret Service agents were leading him off the stage was to let those in attendance know he was OK "and that America goes on, we go forward, that we are strong."

When he stood up and saw that the rally crowd had not moved, Trump said he felt he needed to tell them that he and the country were going to be alright.

"The energy coming from the people there in that moment, they just stood there; it's hard to describe what that felt like, but I knew the world was looking," he said. "I knew that history would judge this, and I knew I had to let them know we are OK."

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Insane New Video Shows Trump Shooter Moving on Roof, People Pointing Him Out Before Shooting

 

We've been reporting on the witnesses and videos of the shooter on the roof at the Trump rally. 

A witness told the BBC that he saw him for multiple minutes — he estimated five minutes — on the roof as people were pointing him out and telling the police. 

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But now there's new video that corroborates what the witness said. It is also incredibly frustrating as people on the ground spot the guy, allegedly Thomas Crooks, crawling around on the roof with the rifle, and the people shout about it and point him out for almost a minute, but obviously, he is not stopped before the shooting. 

If the people pointing him out saw the rifle, that has to be incredibly brave that they did that, since he could have turned the rifle on them. 

This adds more context and confirms, in part, what the BBC witness said. People were pointing this guy out for some time before he did any shooting. It wasn't just seconds. So there was a lot of time, potentially, to stop him or take him out, or at least get Trump off the stage. Why wasn't he taken out, and how was this allowed to happen? You can see at least one officer walking by the building as people shout. 

As we reported, there was also a concerning report that a local officer confronted the shooter, but when the shooter turned the rifle on him, the officer retreated down a ladder. There's going to be an investigation of the shooting, but if that's true, that's pretty incredible as well. How could a law enforcement officer not act under those circumstances to take him out?

It's already looking like there were a lot of colossal failures here, and the Secret Service needs to answer up as to why all this went down as it did. When the people on the ground end up doing the job that you're supposed to be doing, there's a problem. 

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