Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas) informed news outlets that the agency led by impeached migration czar Alejandro Mayorkas is obstructing the House’s inquiry into the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump.
The shooting was “an epic failure.”
“It is very concerning that right off the bat, we see DHS [Mayorkas’ Department of Homeland Security] obfuscating as opposed to being transparent. This should be something that, regardless of party, we don’t allow this kind of thing in our country.”
The Secret Service agency is part of Mayorkas’s DHS. It is run by sociology graduate Kimberly Cheatle.
Cloud is a member of the House’s oversight committee, which is chaired by Rep. James Comer (R-KY).
“We were scheduled for a first briefing today, just on the facts of the case, what’s going on, what they know now, and DHS has stepped in between the communications now of the Secret Service and the Oversight Committee, and are now trying to control the communication between the two committees,” Cloud told Breitbart News during an interview at the GOP’s national convention.
Mayorkas is hastily selecting individuals within a “few days” for an alleged impartial evaluation of the agency’s shortcomings.
Since 2021, Mayorkas has leveraged his authority within President Joe Biden’s administration to advance the cause of migrants and facilitate the migration of approximately 10 million migrants into American communities, residences, and workplaces.
This agenda, supported by the elite, resulted in his impeachment by the House in February 2024 and has caused a decline in Biden’s approval ratings during the 2024 election.
Cloud continued: “So Chairman Comer is issuing subpoenas to make sure that the Secret Service director does appear [at a hearing]. Right now, we have a committee scheduled for the day we go back next week, on Monday, to make sure that she does appear and that we are being able to begin this investigation.”
“Already they’re obfuscating it, it would seem,” Cloud said, adding, “We should be able to get that preliminary information out, realizing that, okay, this is going to take more than one briefing … But you know, this is coming from the same administration who was labeling Catholics as terrorists, people who go to school board meetings as terrorists, yet they fail to protect a former president of the United States and a political opponent. We’ve seen this administration target political opponents before, and then now fail epically in protecting a former president — and we will say, future — President of the United States. And so this is extremely concerning.”
Congressman Cloud continued:
“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. You should not get two assassination attempts under your belt as director of the Secret Service.”
“So we’re going to have to continue to look into this as the information becomes available,” Cloud added.
On Tuesday, Mayorkas once again expressed his backing for Cheatle, despite her acknowledgment on Monday that Secret Service agents had intentionally not been stationed on the roof where the sniper nearly assassinated 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 wouldn’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.
On Tuesday morning, NPR inquired of Mayorkas whether he expected job losses to occur as a result of the previous weekend.
“I have 100% confidence in the director of the United States Secret Service, a dedicated, career-long law enforcement officer,” Mayorkas told NPR.
