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Several Republican senators confronted Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night seeking answers about how the agency failed to protect former President Donald Trump from an assassination attempt. Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., John Barrasso, R-Wyo., James Lankford, R-Okla., and Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., surrounded Cheatle at the Fiserv Forum and asked about the shooting at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday. A video posted on X by Blackburn shows the senators asking Cheatle questions. After engaging in brief conversation, the director walks away with the lawmakers following. Barrasso and Blackburn can be seen yelling…
CNN — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi privately told President Joe Biden in a recent conversation that polling shows that the president cannot defeat Donald Trump and that Biden could destroy Democrats’ chances of winning the House in November if he continues seeking a second term, according to four sources briefed on the call. The president responded by pushing back, telling Pelosi he has seen polls that indicate he can win, one source said. Another one of the sources described Biden as getting defensive about the polls. At one point, Pelosi asked Mike Donilon, Biden’s longtime adviser, to get on…
BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — The young man was pacing around the edges of the Donald Trump campaign rally, shouldering a big backpack and peering into the lens of a rangefinder toward the rooftops behind the stage where the former president would stand within the hour. His behavior was so odd, so unlike that of the other rallygoers, that local law enforcement took notice, radioed their concerns and snapped a photo. But then he vanished. The image was circulated by officers stationed outside the security perimeter on that hot, sunny Saturday afternoon. But the man didn’t appear again until witnesses saw…
A chaotic scene played out at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, July 17, when a group of GOP senators were seen chasing down Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle through the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee. The senators yelled at her, accusing her of refusing to answer questions regarding the attempted assassination on Donald Trump. GOP senators chased down Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle at the RNC amid calls to resign (AP Photo/Morry Gash)(AP) {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} “This was an assassination attempt! You owe the people answers. You owe president Trump answers!” Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn shouted at Cheatle. The…
CNN — Night three of the Republican National Convention included former President Donald Trump’s choice for vice president, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, and other speakers who made false and misleading claims throughout the night. Here is a list of fact checks from CNN’s Facts First team. Vance’s misleading claim about Trump and the invasion of Iraq Former President Donald Trump’s choice for vice president, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, insinuated in his speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday that Trump had opposed the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. Vance said that “when I was a senior in…
BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — The young man was pacing around the edges of the Donald Trump campaign rally, shouldering a big backpack and peering into the lens of a rangefinder toward the rooftops behind the stage where the former president would stand within the hour. His behavior was so odd, so unlike that of the other rallygoers, that local law enforcement took notice, radioed their concerns and snapped a photo. But then he vanished. The image was circulated by officers stationed outside the security perimeter on that hot, sunny Saturday afternoon. But the man didn’t appear again until witnesses saw…
MILWAUKEE — Former President Donald Trump’s selection of JD Vance as his running mate vaulted the political newcomer to the role of the MAGA movement’s would-be standard bearer. But the selection didn’t just elevate the first-term Ohio senator and designate him as Trump’s preferred successor; it also further solidified a faction of the party that embraces an isolationist, “America First” approach to the world stage. There may be some exceptions to that approach — take U.S. support of Israel, for example, which is continuing its war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza. But when it comes to Ukraine,…
Law enforcement officials investigating the assassination attempt on Donald Trump told lawmakers Wednesday that 20 minutes passed between the time U.S. Secret Service snipers first spotted the gunman on a rooftop and the time shots were fired at the former president, according to several law enforcement officials and lawmakers briefed on the matter.Officials said the snipers spotted the suspect, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, on the roof of a building outside the security zone at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, at 5:52 p.m. ET. The shooting happened at 6:12 p.m. ET, 20 minutes later, the sources said.In the days since the…
After three days, an enigmatic portrait emerged of the 20-year-old man who came close to killing former President Donald Trump with a high-velocity bullet: He was an intelligent loner with few friends, an apparently thin social media footprint and no hints of strong political beliefs that would suggest a motive for an attempted assassination. What You Need To Know Three days after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, the 20-year-old man who came close to killing the former president remains an enigma Neighbors describe Thomas Matthew Crooks as an intelligent loner with few friends who left a vanishingly thin social…
Democrat Senate candidates are running well ahead of President Joe Biden, worrying Republicans that former President Donald Trump’s coattails are not helping the chamber’s election races. One Republican senator told The Hill on Wednesday that polling shows Democrat incumbents ahead in every single battleground state except Montana, where GOP candidate Tim Sheehy leads Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., by 3 points despite Trump leading Biden in the state by 21 points. Newsweek reported Saturday that Democrat Senate candidates appear to be pushing ahead in “toss-up” states Michigan, Nevada, and Ohio. National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Chair Steve Daines, R-Mont., though, says the…