Remember these numbers: 12 and 3.
Twelve is the number of Secret Service “assets” from the Pittsburgh field office that Jill Biden had at her fundraiser in an enclosed casino for 400 fat cat Beautiful People in western Pennsylvania on July 13.
Three is the number of Secret Service “assets” that former President Donald Trump had at his open-air fundraiser with 20,000 people a few miles away on that same afternoon.
How is that even remotely possible?
Kimberley Cheatle, the now former director of the Secret Service, brushed off those devastating numbers with a shrug when she was asked about them at her now-infamous Congressional hearing Monday.
“The number of personnel allocated to both events were comparable to the risks inherent at the events.”
Jill Biden had four times as much protection from the Secret Service as Donald Trump!
As bad as those numbers are, they barely made most stories about her House testimony, because there was so much other appalling news that came out of that hearing. If you think the incompetence and corruption of the Biden regime have been exaggerated, think again.
These are just a few of the facts we’ve learned over the last few days about the failings of Jill Biden’s woke, DEI-driven Secret Service director:
- The would-be assassin had a drone at the event, but the Secret Service did not.
- The building where the shots were fired was supposed to have security on the roof, but they decided it was too hot up there.
- The Secret Service has no recordings of the radio communications among law enforcement that day.
- The SS didn’t even attend a morning security briefing among the local cops and sheriffs’ departments.
- The SS differentiates between a “suspicious person” and a “threat,” and the shooter, despite being armed with a rifle, was not deemed a threat.
The hack either couldn’t or wouldn’t answer the simplest of questions, even from her fellow Democrats.
Cheatle, who used to work for Pepsico, which produces Cheetos, was asked if Trump was told about the “suspicious individual?”
“I don’t have the details.”
Can you tell the Committee what happened that day?
“I’m not going to get into specifics of the day.”
Was the shooter acting alone?
“I’d have to refer you to the FBI investigation on the matter.”
Did they consider pausing the rally?
“Had there been a threat, they would have paused the rally.”
She was asked if she had a timeline of the assassination attempt?
“I have a timeline with no specifics.”
She was shown video of the spectators pointing at the shooter crawling around on the roof and yelling at him, after which she was asked, what did the Secret Service do at that point?
“We are currently still combing through communications and when communications were passed.”
Has anyone been disciplined?
“We’re in the process of….”
Were there enough agents assigned?
“We feel there was a sufficient number of agents assigned.”
Was there a Secret Service agent on the roof?
“Sir, I’m sure, as you can imagine, that we are just nine days out from this incident, and there’s still an ongoing investigation.”
Just when you thought the Biden administration couldn’t get any worse, they trot Kim “Cheetos” Cheatle out there.
Finally, there was some bipartisan agreement at the Capitol. Democrats and Republicans alike were shocked at how far gone everything is. The reps kept asking her variations of the same question, over and over again, and she didn’t have a clue.
It doesn’t even matter that she’s gone now. The fact is, Cheatle was running a very important agency for one reason and one reason only: because she was Jill Biden’s BFF from her days on Dr. Jill’s detail during Dementia Joe’s vice presidential years.
That’s why the letter from Biden yesterday accepting her resignation began, “Jill and I are grateful to Director Kim Cheatle for her decades of public service….”
Jill and I? Is she officially the co-president now?
Last week, news broke that the Biden administration had turned down Trump’s requests for more security on the campaign trail.
The day after the attempted hit, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas flatly denied the story.
“That is unequivocally false assertion,” he thundered to ABC “News.”
A few days later, the story was grudgingly confirmed to state-run media. The decision not to add Secret Service protection was made, CNN reported, “at the highest levels of the agency.”
By the same Democrats, no doubt, who made the decision to deny protection to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
So they tried to take Trump off the ballot. Then they tried (and are still trying) to throw him in jail. And now they nixed proper protection to keep him alive.
But Cheatle does leave a legacy of her own behind – DEI.
According to her most recent strategic plan for the agency, “We must embrace diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) across the board.
They can’t be bothered protecting the leading political rivals of Joe Biden, but by God Cheatle’s Secret Service hosted a seminar on “the respectful use of pronouns.”
Back to Cheatle: “DEIA must be demonstrated by all employees – leading by example – through action every day.”
And that’s what happened on July 13. DEIA was demonstrated “through action.”
Or was it inaction?