(UnitedHeadlines.com) -South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace stated that she intended to force a House vote on a resolution to impeach Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle.
The move comes after Cheatle’s testimony during the July 22 House Oversight Committee hearing, where she admitted the July 13 assassination attempt against Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump at his Butler, Pennsylvania rally was the Secret Service’s “most significant operational failure” in “decades.”
During her testimony, Cheatle could not say why Secret Service agents were not on the roof of the building where the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was located, which was 164 yards away from the stage where Trump was speaking. Crooks was killed by a Secret Service sniper located on the roof of a nearby building after Crooks shot at Trump, hitting his ear, killing one rally attendee and injuring two others.
During the hearing, Mace stated that Cheatle was “being completely dishonest” when answering questions asked by the committee.
However, after Cheatle refused to resign during the hearing, Mace posted on Twitter that she would be introducing the resolution with a privileged motion, which would force leadership to take action on the resolution within 48 hours. In the post, Mace wrote that “historic times call for historic measures.”
Republican Florida Rep. Greg Steube also filed one article of impeachment against Cheatle “for her dereliction of duty” related to the attempted assassination of Trump. He called what happened at the rally an “international embarrassment and an inexcusable tragedy.”
However, on July 23, before the two articles of impeachment could be taken up, Cheatle resigned.
Her resignation comes after both Democrats and Republicans had called for Cheatle to resign after the attempted assassination of Trump, including House Oversight Chairman, Republican Kentucky Rep. James Comer, and Democrat Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top member of the panel, who both stated after the hearing that Cheatle “failed” to provide answers and called for Cheatle’s resignation.
Copyright 2024, UnitedHeadlines.com
