Emails released by a leaker show that First Lady Jill Biden had four times the amount of “post-standing” Secret Service protection than former President Trump got on the day he was almost killed.
According to emails obtained by Republican Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, the Secret Service assigned a dozen personnel for “post-standing” security to a Jill Biden supper in a Pittsburgh casino on July 13, but only three for the rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania, where 20-year-old Thomas Crooks attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump, also on July 13.
During her appearance before Congress on Monday, Republican William Timmons of South Carolina extensively questioned Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle about the security disparity.
During Timmons’s questioning on why the first lady had more post-standing people assigned to her than the previous president, Cheatle explained that the amount of staff assigned to each event was proportional to the danger involved.
Secret Service agents are often stationed inside an event’s inner perimeter.
Post-standers, on the other hand, are delegated security duties in certain regions by the local Secret Service field offices.
Timmons was left dumbfounded, asking Cheatle if inviting 400 people into a 400-person ballroom at a Pittsburgh casino was four times riskier than inviting 20,000 people to an open-field rally featuring the former president.
On the day of the murder attempt, Grassley asked all federal agencies to provide a list of its employees who were at Trump’s event. Snipers perched on the venue’s rooftop and many agents stationed near the president’s platform swiftly sprung into action to shield him from gunfire were all members of the Secret Service detail that protected Trump on July 13.
Cheatle has been stonewalling, citing “ongoing investigations.”
After sitting and taking her Capitol Hill grilling, the ineffectual and dangerous Cheatle made her most intelligent decision as director—she resigned.
