Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas ) claimed Alejandro Mayorkas ‘ Department of Homeland Security is tampering with the House’s investigation into the death of President Donald Trump.
The firing was” an incredible failure”, Cloud told Breitbart News during an interview at the GOP’s federal agreement, adding,” It is very concerning that right off the bat, we see DHS]Mayorkas ‘ Department of Homeland Security ] dissembling as opposed to being transparent. This should be something that, regardless of party, we do n’t allow this kind of thing in our country”.
Cloud is a member of the House’s oversight committee, which is chaired by Rep. James Comer (R-KY ).
” We were scheduled for a second presentation now, just on the facts of the case, what’s going on, what they know then, and DHS has stepped in between the contacts now of the Secret Service and the Oversight Committee, and are now trying to control the communication between the two commissions”, Cloud continued.
Therefore, Chairman Comer is is issuing warrants to ensure that the Secret Service director appears [at a experiencing ]. We have a council meeting scheduled for Monday so that we can make sure she does show up and that we can start this research.
” Now they’re obfuscating it, it may seem”, Cloud said, adding,” We should be able to get that initial knowledge out, realizing that, okay, this is going to take more than one lecture … , But you know, this is coming from the same management who was labeling Christians as terrorists, people who go to school board meetings as terrorists, but they fail to protect a former president of the United States and a political opposition. We’ve previously seen this administration take political opponents, but this administration has failed spectacularly in keeping a former president, and we will say, a future president. And so this is extremely concerning”.
” I’ll say this right off the bat :]With ] any failure like this of the Secret Service … , the honorable thing]for the director ] to do is to resign at this point. She’ll talk about,’ Well, we need to make sure this never happens again.’ That’s not the job description. The job description is to make sure that this never happens, period. We got to take the’ again’ out of that. As director of the Secret Service, you should n’t have two assassination attempts under your belt.
” So we’re going to have to continue to look into this as the information becomes available”, Cloud added.
Mayorkas once more reaffirmed his backing for Cheatle on Tuesday, even after her Monday admission that Secret Service agents were purposefully placed on the roof where the sniper almost fatally shot Trump.
” That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point”, Cheatle told ABC News , on Monday. ” And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we would n’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof …]so] the decision was made to secure the building from inside”, she said in , a segment released on Tuesday.
Early on Tuesday morning, NPR , asked , Mayorkas,” Do you anticipate people losing jobs over last weekend”?
” I have 100 % confidence in the director of the United States Secret Service, a dedicated, career-long law enforcement officer”, Mayorkas told NPR.
Cheatle, a graduate of sociology, spent more than 24 years with the US Secret Service. She was hired for the job in August 2024 by President Joe Biden, who , stated:
When Kim served on my security detail when I was Vice President, Jill and I both came to trust her judgment and advice. She was undoubtedly the best person to lead the organization at a crucial time for the Secret Service because she is a distinguished law enforcement professional with exceptional leadership skills. She has my full and honest trust, and I look forward to working with her.
