Marjorie Taylor Greene takes action against the Director of the Secret Service, falsely claiming she was “complicit”

Republican hardliner Marjorie Taylor Greene fired off a series of tweets attacking Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle as she was grilled by House Democrats on Monday over her agency’s failure to prevent an assassination attempt on Donald Trump during a rally in rural Pennsylvania earlier this month.

The House Oversight Committee had asked Cheatle to testify after the former president was hit in the ear by a bullet at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, killing one bystander and seriously injuring two others.

The shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, was killed at the scene, but lawmakers are questioning why Crooks, who was considered a suspect at the rally, was not stopped before he opened fire on the Republican candidate.

“I have never seen a more incompetent woman in my life. Cheatle should have resigned,” Greene, who sits on the Oversight Committee, said of Cheatle in a post shared on X during the hearing. “Instead, she is covering everything up, refusing to answer questions and release information.”

“Maybe she is more than just incompetent. Maybe she is complicit,” the Republican congresswoman baselessly claimed.

There is no evidence that Cheatle had anything to do with the attack, but the 27-year veteran of the agency appeared remorseful at the House hearing and admitted that the shooting amounted to the “single biggest operational failure of the Secret Service in decades.”

Greene was not the only member of the House of Representatives to call for Cheatle’s resignation.

Republican Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna also suggested Monday that Cheatle should resign over the incident.

“You can’t take over the leadership of an intelligence agency when an assassination attempt on a presidential candidate is underway,” Khanna said. “I would say that about anyone.”

Cheatle, for her part, said she takes “full responsibility for any security lapses” and will “move heaven and earth to ensure that an incident like the one on July 13 does not happen again.”

Despite a flood of calls for her resignation, she stated in her opening statement to the House committee: “I believe that I am the best person to lead the Secret Service at this time.”