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Even AOC! Squad Rep Rips USSS Director Cheatle, 'Simply Not Acceptable ... There Need to Be Answers' [Watch]

By Eric Bolling Staff

There’s rare bipartisan consensus: Kim Cheatle failed.

During Monday’s House Oversight hearing on the Secret Service failures that led to an attempt on Donald Trump’s life, Democrats and Republicans alike called USSS Director Kim Cheatle incompetent.

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Even squad Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Cheatle’s 60-day report wait time was “simply not acceptable.”

“The idea that a report will be finalized in 60 days, let alone prior to any actionable decisions that would be made, is simply not acceptable. It has been 10 days since an assassination attempt on a former president. There need to be answers.”

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Cheatle won’t promise a specific delivery date on a report from the failures in Butler, PA — she won’t even commit to firing people who were involved in the intelligence failures that led to the attempt on Donald Trump’s life.

Cheatle made the admission under questioning from Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL).

“I don’t know who prepared you for this. I don’t know how many times you’ve testified in front of Congress, but a president was almost assassinated live on television. Not just for Americans, but for the world to see. And this being your first opportunity, I understand there’s an ongoing investigation. I understand there’s things that you can not talk about, but the the idea that we’re getting less than you did on television is something that Democrats, independents and Republicans are going to find unacceptable,” Moskowitz said.

“Are you telling the committee that once it’s concluded you’re prepared to fire the people on the ground who made poor decisions that day?” he asked.

“I’m prepared to take the actions,” Cheatle responded.

“No, no, no, that’s that’s nonsense. Okay. Accountability. The failure was human. That doesn’t mean they’re bad people. It means they failed that day. And a president was almost–a former president was almost assassinated. Okay. Are you prepared to fire the human failure on the ground? Yes or no? When you have the names of where those failures were, they’re people. It’s not like a piece of technology failed. It was people who failed that day. Are you prepared to fire them?” the lawmaker pressed.

“I don’t have an answer as to whether [they will be fired],” Cheatle said.

“Well, then how can there be accountability if you’re not prepared to fire someone?” Moskowitz concluded.

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