Our Not-So Secret, Secret Service Crisis

The Biden Administration is already stonewalling the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into the Trump assassination attempt. This is as predictable as the next Biden brain freeze.

And also predictable, they aren’t going to fire anyone or change anything. They are using the exact same playbook that they have used with the border. Even if the GOP eventually gets anyone to show up at a hearing, all we will get is the same type of grandstanding and refusal to cooperate that happens when DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies about the border crisis.

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It is past time to start putting pressure on Democrats in the Senate and House over this issue. Virginia Republican Senate candidate Hung Cao should be asking Tim Kaine whether he has confidence in the Secret Service. In fact, that should become an issue in races all across the country.

How can the Biden Administration possibly make the case that it is doing everything possible to ensure that this never happens again when they refuse to answer even the most basic questions? Why was the building considered “outside the Secret Service perimeter”? Why did the Secret Service allow the President to appear on stage when earlier authorities had spotted—then lost track of—a suspicious man in the vicinity?

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Protecting the President and presidential candidates must be our national duty and should never be the subject of partisan bickering. Yet our “defenders of democracy” are more concerned with political fallout than transparency and accountability. Fertile soil in which government conspiracy theories sprout and grow.

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Let’s be clear: Republicans in Congress have been extremely patient with the Biden Administration on this issue. They have given the Biden people every opportunity to cooperate voluntarily and to work on a bipartisan basis. But the Biden Administration is in a defensive crouch and will do everything possible to defend their performance here, no matter what the facts show.

It’s time for Republicans to be realistic about this – and that means making certain that senators and congressmen still trying to defend the Biden response pay a political price. The Biden people don’t care what Trump supporters think. But they may care if their fellow Democrats start kicking up a fuss.

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