“We have to stop funding it”

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) is calling for defunding the U.S. Secret Service after a string of inexplicable failures nearly led to the assassination of former President Donald J. Trump last weekend.

For reasons unknown, the people tasked with providing security for a man whom Joe Biden and the media have demonized as the second coming of Hitler and a prime target for a would-be assassin left a rooftop with a direct line of sight to the open stage during Trump's rally in Butler, Pa., last Saturday.

With little response from the administration or embattled DEI Secret Service chief Kimberly Cheatle, the Lone Star State lawmaker told Fox News host Laura Ingraham it may be time to starve l 'agency until there are responsibilities.

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“I am so upset as an American, as angry as an American, as a friend of Donald Trump, as someone who mourns for the poor Comperatore family who buried their father, their brother and their husband tonight,” Ingraham said, referring to Corey. Comperatore who was killed while protecting his family at the demonstration.

“I couldn't agree with you more,” the congressman replied. “I mean right now the President of the United States, former President, and hopefully soon to be President of the United States Donald Trump, is alive not because of what the Secret Service did, but because he providentially turned his head, that's the truth. And the fact is, the American people are sick of it.”

“They're sick of Lloyd Austin still having a job after Afghanistan,” he said, referring to “the black man” that Biden put in charge of the Pentagon.

“Pete Buttigieg after derailments and, you know, ships hitting bridges,” he added, referring to the incompetent DEI hire chosen to lead the Department of Transportation.

Roy continued: “They're fed up with an FBI, they're fed up with the intelligence community, all these people keep their jobs, and now the Secret Service is putting the former president and the sitting Republican nominee in harm's way and they're acting like they don't nothing happened.”

“They didn't even have a drone flying. The guy who did it flew a drone,” Roy said, referring to a Wall Street Journal report that 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who had no social media footprint, used a drone to see the Butler Farm Showgrounds hours before Trump's failed assassination.

“It's absolutely incredible what we're seeing here,” the Republican lawmaker added. “But here's the deal, we've got to stop funding it. We've got to stop employing these people. We've got to hold them accountable, and to your point, I'm glad Mike Johnson is saying we need a group of work. We must channel it through an organized effort in the House.”

“We're going to move quickly. On Monday I'm going to create a task force, a special task force in the House,” Johnson said said of the GOP's effort to get some answers. “And the reason we're going to do it that way is because that's one more shot of precision.”

The Secret Service has yet to explain how Crooks was able to nearly kill Trump and Cheatle has refused to resign nor has Biden asserted leadership by firing her.

Staff writer

Chris Donaldson is a regular, ordinary American who is concerned about rampant corruption, as well as the ongoing attacks on our way of life by those who despise our hard-won freedoms. A Navy veteran, he has been a frequent contributor to conservative websites and resides in Florida.

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