Eric Trump Calls On Secret Service Director To Resign

Eric Trump said on Sunday that Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle should resign after the attempted assassination of his father, former President Donald Trump, at a rally last weekend.

The younger Trump explained his position during an interview on Fox News as Cheatle faces a crisis of confidence in her leadership following the security failure at the campaign event in Pennsylvania.

“The director of the Secret Service should resign in absolute disgrace,” Eric Trump told “Sunday Morning Futures” anchor Maria Bartiromo.

Eric Trump accused Cheatle of lying to the America people and suggested her boss, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, is trying to obstruct a congressional inquiry into the attack.

One particular claim Eric Trump dismissed was Cheatle’s assertion that the Secret Service did not place a unit on the rooftop where the shooter opened fire because it was sloped.

Emphasizing how relatively flat the roof seems to be, he said, “If there was any less grade on that roof, you would have birdbaths on the top of it, right?”

He added, “I don’t want to hear this, that the Secret Service sniper — and I know many of them, and they are the most in-shape, phenomenal people … couldn’t navigate that roof.”

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Questions have been raised about how a shooter, identified as a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man named Thomas Matthew Crooks, managed to get onto a nearby rooftop and begin shooting.

President Trump survived, but a bullet ripped through his right year. One rally-goer was killed and two others were injured. The shooter was killed by a Secret Service sniper.

Multipole investigations are underway, including the wide-ranging inquiry in the GOP-led House, which has a hearing with Cheatle scheduled for Monday.

A lack of accountability following the shooting and letting Cheatle remain in her job “shows how disgraceful and inept” the Biden administration is, Eric Trump said.

“She should be out of a job,” he said. “They should put somebody in there that’s competent. The reality is, I don’t care. This is not a political issue. There’s no politics involved in this issue.”

Eric Trump said a former president getting shot is a “sign to the entire world of the weakness of America when something like this happens, and, God forbid, worse happened.”

Despite his criticism of Cheatle, Eric Trump made room to praise the Secret Service agents who rushed in to protect his father, saying they “did their job, and they did it incredibly well.”