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Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is facing questioning Monday from House Oversight Committee lawmakers about the assassination attempt against former President Trump at a rally on July 13 in Pennsylvania.

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•  Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is testifying Monday in front of the House Oversight Committee. 
•  Cheatle, who is facing calls to resign, is being questioned about her agency’s handling of the Trump rally shooting on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania. 

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Trump reveals conversation with Secret Service director as bi-partisan calls grow for her to resign

Former President Trump was shot in the ear at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024. (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)

Former President Trump spoke about his conversation with Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to Fox News’ Jesse Watters on Monday night, saying she was nice, though somebody should have made sure nobody was on the roof a gunman accessed before opening fire at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

“She came to see me actually. And, well, I mean, it went very nicely. She was very nice, I thought. But, you know, somebody should have made sure there was nobody on that roof,” Trump said. “That roof was a dead aim right onto the stage. And they said they didn’t have the manpower for it, which is crazy. They said 130 yards is like sinking a one-foot putt. It’s considered really close.

“It sounds like a lot, but it’s really, from that standpoint, it’s a very, you know, it’s very close. And I was surprised by that actually. They said it’s really, it’s a – a bad shot would usually hit the target. And so I mean, it’s got to be, somebody’s got to be there. And it’s essentially a flat roof,” Trump added. “ I mean, I noticed that she said, well, this is a slope roof where you think of like a barn where you have, this thing had just a little – a little upswing in it, a few degrees. This was a not – it essentially was a flat roof.

So, I don’t know. Somebody gave her false information when she talked about the slope of the roof.

“I thought she was very nice. But, you know, you have to answer why couldn’t I have stayed off the stage for five minutes while they do their work,” he continued. “Why couldn’t, you know, how does a situation happen where a roof that’s plainly in sight from the location where I was speaking, why would somebody not have seen that?”

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Top five moments of Secret Service director’s hours-long grilling after Trump assassination attempt

United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee during a hearing at the Rayburn House Office Building on July 22, 2024 in Washington, DC. Cheatle has vowed cooperation with all investigations into the agency following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testified for hours on Capitol Hill Monday, facing a grilling from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle over the agency’s lapse in security that enabled the assassination attempt on former President Trump. 

Cheatle testified before the House Oversight Committee, led by Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., after he subpoenaed her to appear.

Cheatle testified before the House Oversight Committee Monday, just over a week after a would-be assassin Thomas Crooks attempted to take the life of Trump at his rally in Butler, Pa. on July 13. 

Trump, during his rally, ever-so-slightly turned his head—narrowly missing the bullet shot by 20-year-old suspect Crooks’ AR-15-style rifle by just a quarter of an inch. The bullet hit him, instead, in his upper right ear.

Kimberly Cheatle testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee

United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee during a hearing at the Rayburn House Office Building on July 22, 2024 in Washington, DC. Cheatle has vowed cooperation with all investigations into the agency following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. 

The bullet killed firefighter, father and husband Corey Comperatore as he protected his family from the shots, and severely injured two others. 

Cheatle admitted under oath that the Secret Service “on July 13th, we failed.” 

Read here for the top five moments:

Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

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Rep. Crockett asks if Secret Service didn’t consider ‘White male’ shooter a threat because of racial

Rep. Jasmine Crockett argued that among law enforcement, “There usually is not a perception of a threat when it is a young White male, even if they are carrying a long gun.”

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, appeared to imply that racial bias may have been why the Secret Service was slow to deem Thomas Crooks a threat on the day he shot at Trump.

Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle testified on Monday before the House Oversight Committee, less than 10 days after would-be assassin Thomas Crooks nearly killed former President Trump. Cheatle was grilled by Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike. While little is known about Crooks’ motivations, his identity as a White male was brought center stage when it was Crockett’s turn to speak. 

“I wanna talk about training and I want to talk about the fact that there’s been a little bit of dancing around as it relates to this being a suspicious person and this being a situation that was perceived to be a threat, and it seems as if there’s a different analysis that takes place,” Crockett argued. “One of my questions has to do with if you have any bias training that your officers undergo.”

Crockett went on to cite her background as a “civil rights lawyer,” and said, “I have learned so many times, in having to deal with law enforcement, that there usually is not a perception of a threat when it is a young White male, even if they are carrying a long gun. Yet a lot of times, at least in this country, when it comes to law enforcement, there is a perceived threat just by somebody having a little bit more melanin in their skin.”She then said that while discussions about law enforcement training standards are often sparked by officer-involved shootings, this incident is relevant as well.

Read more about Crockett’s implications of “racial bias.”

Fox News’ Alexander Hall contributed to this report.

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