Former President Donald Trump sat down with Fox News’s Jesse Watters to talk about the assassination attempt and his conversation with Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle.
(Video Credit: Fox News)
“You talked to Cheatle, how did that go?” Watters asked Trump, who was flanked by his vice presidential pick J.D. Vance.
“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. That roof was a dead aim right onto the stage,” he said. “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.”
Trump then countered the argument that the roof was “sloped” saying that the pitch of the roof was not actually very steep.
“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,” the former president said. “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. I mean, I noticed that she said, well, this is a sloped 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.”
While he believes Cheatle is “nice” there are still a large number of questions to be answered, including the obvious one.
“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? 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?”
Watters asked Vance if he feels “safe with Cheatle running the Secret Service.”
“Look, clearly she needs to be more forthcoming,” Vance said. “She needs to sit before people and answer all their questions and let people know what happened. When you try to hide information and hide from question asking, that’s what leads people to believe that there is something to be hidden.”
Writers and editors can be contacted at [email protected] with feedback, tips, or corrections.
Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
Comment
We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spam, instead of replying to it please click the ∨ icon below and to the right of that comment. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.