Judgement day for DEI
Link to quote: Secret Service DEI policies under scrutiny after Trump assassination attempt - Washington Examiner
I think it is time to cover a story that is getting neglected a bit due to the recent blockbuster news stories. First, I want to thank members who were right on the president's withdrawal from the 2024 race yesterday (my colleague from the great state of Texas and the man who lives in the shadow of Mt Airy, who recently opened the door to this story.)
Today U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle will have to testify under oath before a House Committee concerning her agency's failure to prevent a would-be assassin from wounding Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump earlier this month. Not to mention the killing of one man and the serious injury to two others. The beleaguered Secret Service chief who is facing calls for her resignation from top Republicans is due to appear before the House of Representatives Oversight and Accountability Committee at 10 a.m.
MS Cheatle has had held various positions within the Secret Service for over 25 years but was a particular favorite of the Bidens. As president Joe Biden awarded her a "Presidential Rank Award" for "exceptional performance."
The indisputable facts:
1) The July 13 shooting at an outdoor campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, wounded Trump in the ear, killed one rally attendee and injured another. The suspected shooter, Thomas Crooks, was killed by law enforcement.
2) The suspect was able to get within range of Trump on the rooftop of a nearby building because of security lapses at Cheatle's agency.
3) Onlookers spotted the suspicious man on the roof and notified police before the shooting.
4) Three snipers assisting the Secret Service were inside the very building that the shooter used during the campaign rally.
There are other controversial aspects to the case. The FBI has been very tightlipped about their investigation and on Wednesday FBI Director Christopher Wray will appear before the House Judiciary Committee.
As per usual with all of Biden's far left appointees, MS Cheatle refuses to step down.
The larger issue of DEI appointments is front and center as Kamala Harris attempts to take control of the democrat's presidential race without a single primary vote.
In the news:
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Biden immediately endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him. The Clintons and several other top Democrats followed suit, but there are key holdouts. Former President Obama and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi have yet to endorse Harris
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Good morning.
Yesterday Joe Biden released this typed letter, signed by him as his way of telling the American people he was ending his campaign:
He released it on X (formerly Twitter.)
No reasons given and Biden has remained at home.
Compared to Trump's mendacious and misanthropic midnight missives, some sanity.
Unfortunately, Trump is absent from the news right now.
Really, he's not flashing his new beige Band-Aid?
The article is about Kimberly Cheatle
Which is why you started off the conversation with Biden's resignation letter? Just following your lead, Vic.
Yes, Biden's letter.
Any thoughts?
I stated them in 1.1 ...
Cheatle: "A range finder is not a prohibited item."
Are you trying to 'cheatle' your way into or out of your own article?
I'm trying to Jordan my way forward:
Jordan goes nuclear on everything, it's his schtick.
Take the train.
I'll be sitting with Kamala and her husband:
Good company?
Them or you?
Having attended the same high school as Kamala, she and I would certainly have more to talk about.
Did you both ride the yellow school bus?
That little girl was her.
Are the inmates behind Jordon serving time because of Sen Biden’s 94 Crime Bill or Harris’ “Top Cop” prosecutions?
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uh oh, sounds like the convicted felon and insurrectionist party wanted another old white guy to run against trump ...
I thought democracy required votes.
the official D process takes place next month, and unlike the one last week, it won't require public groveling, demonstrations of fealty, and a laughable display of melodrama with a pathetic clown serving as ringmaster.
I am quite sure that Pelosi & Obama are hoping it will be at least half as good as the RNC Convention was.
Tiffany Trump is still looking for a hug. Maybe she'll show up in Chicago and get one from Obama or Gretchen Whitmer.
What a disgusting comment.
Safer than getting one from Joe.
Well , her father shunned her at his coronation so I think it is not a disgusting comment.
Of course you don't.
Leave the children out of it.
the only thing missing from the RNC pep rally for morons was the sieg heils, although the prompted chants came pretty close.
Let us see how much unity democrats will have.
Is Trump a child? He's the one that shunned her.
Leave the kids alone.
Trump was getting off on all the "he-men" calling him a warrior.
A bunch of sweaty wannabe gladiators auditioning before the emperor.
hasbeens and wannabes, sucking his dick and bending their knees...
she's tougher than she looks. you wouldn't want to get between her and a dessert tray...
According to Orban it just needs the right counters; I'm guessing he handed over his illiberal tipsheet to his wannabe.
What you don't want to do is listen to her sing (she's on Youtube).
I think you mean Stalin.
Like you left Obama's kids alone? Not a prayer.
Correct.
I never said anything about Obama's family.
You just say anything?
Exactly, pay back, the American way.
An eye for an eye, sayeth the cold man.
I’m sure you are right, they would have liked Bernie Sanders as an opponent. If unable, Lizzy Warren would do.
It is sad. The only person Joe Biden fired was Joe Biden.
The right wing grieving process for Joe Biden's campaign is becoming grating.
I'd offer you a drink, but I just can't get it to you.
Have a good night.
I don't, it is not conclusive that Stalin ever said that.
No matter the education or training and work to attain a position we are told we don’t belong and we attained the position by DEI. It must sooth the beast for the them to fall back on that racist trope. I had to wonder how many of them gained their position by DEI?
some seem to forget that old white guy was a nod and a wink for so many now crying about being discriminated against, if they are, I feel no pity, 250 so years of being first in line is pretty much what i recall
There are (what seems like) eternal arguments about "white privilege". One of the bases of "white privilege" as anti-racists have defined it is that being white means you never have to think about your race. You are the American "default" ethnicity and so you can go through everyday life knowing that nothing is stopping you. If you get pulled over by a cop its because of something you did not because you looked superficially suspicious, etc.
America IS going to continue to become more diverse, it is demographics and destiny. We can do it the easy way or I guess do it the hard way.
I'm not sure what you mean by "anti-racists" but I'm not pro-racists. I use my privilege to see race as an artificial man-made construct without a scientific basis. Perhaps like religion, some people believe in race just because man has for a thousands of years,
There aren't set global criteria for defining race, different societies have a flexible way in which to bin people into groups based on appearance indifferent to the lack of biological or cultural distinctions. For example, “Color” lines based on skin tone can shift, many here will call people from the Mid-,East, people of color, or brown people as if that category had any sort of scientific basis.
The truth is that geographic ancestry is not the same thing as race. African ancestry, for instance, does not tidily map onto being “black”, what race should be assigned to someone with an African/Jamaican/Indian/European ancestry?
Some folks incorrectly conclude that “racial” differences in health, wealth, and all manner of other outcomes are the inescapable result of genetic differences or we may hear a sports announcer commenting on a black athlete's 'natural abilities'.
Many here enjoy making fun of religious believers, yet I never see similar disdain expressed to racial believers. I read that more than half of Americans still believe that their racial identity is determined by information contained in their DNA. The facts is that dividing people into races neither explains nor describes human genetic variation.
Completely agree, yet this old, unscientific notion of racial genetics doesn't die.
Correct and now the ball less bigots whine about how they are discriminated against, a true herd of cowards.
And yet they whine about DEI when they have enjoyed that white privilege for centuries in this country. Poor bigots need a pat on the head and a lollipop.
Or . . . maybe Putin?
(A little gem from days of your....from deep in the long dank interior vaults of the YouTube of yesteryear!)
PUTIN: BLUEBERRY HILL WITH PIANO SOLO AND 42 SCANTILY CLAD ROCKETTES!
Well, OK-- I lied about the Rockettes.
But I just wanted to try to get people away from their rubber gloves with couch pillow feat!
Biden himself, in May, said Kamala is a DEI hire
If that were true (you didn’t post a link) why would you believe him since the right has stated that Biden incapable mentally and suffering from dementia.
was it a lie from the right that he is incapable or is it a lie that Harris was a DEI pick. Seems the right lies so much that the lies contradict each other.
The people that work for and with President Biden in the Whitehouse found out he was leaving the race via X, Class move Joe.
One has to wonder.
Will Trump debate Kamala Harris? It would be must see tv, but Trump is likely too risk adverse to expose himself in that way. It would the the closest thing we will ever see to Trump being cross examined by a prosecutor and a great danger to him winning the election.
I'm sure he will not only debate her but totally defeat her.
Don't forget to shut of the mic.
You think Trump is afraid of Kamala Harris?
Harris who proved during the Democrat primaries in 2020 that she isn't up to any debate. She had one good line- and that was calling Biden a racist.
While CNN was gushing over Harris over her one jab at Biden; and bashing Trump (which every Democrat did in the primaries- NBC laid it out flat.
Harris' own people feared her debating Vance.
The queen of cackle in a debate against anyone not named Biden is a joke.
Harris is a prosecutor and Trump is someone whose lawyers have been terrified to let testify. You figure it out.
This isn't a courtroom.
There is no TDS driven Democrat judge running a kangaroo court; restricting evidence and witnesses; and hand picking a jury to get a predetermined outcome.
Maybe you should go back to the disaster that was Harris during the 2020 Democrat primary debates?
Moderators would have to put a time limit on Harris' cackling.
You mean a non-MAGA judge.
Translation: any court not predisposed to acquit Trump.
How dare the judge restrict evidence and witnesses to the case at hand.
Then perhaps Trump's lawyers should not have hand picked that particular jury?
Next time just admit you have NO IDEA how our judicial system works. Wow.
If Kamala has any sense, she’ll turn it into one. She should be reminding everyone that her opponent is a convicted felon, been found liable for fraud, sexual assault, and defamation. And she should repeat it about every minute or so.
I clearly stated what I meant. A TDS driven judge. There are many examples- like any judge out of New York.
Translation. Any court with a predetermined outcome to automatically convict Trump and twist evidence to do so.
How dare a judge try to restrict testimony from an FEC official who knows federal campaign finance law far better than he ever will.
Or restrict testimony from a key witness that proves how full of shit prosecution star witness Cohen is.
Protecting a convicted perjurer and criminal what a fine example of judgehood.
How dare a judge restrict Trump's testimony on the witness stand due in the slander case? Or award excessive damages far beyond the scope of the law?
Or when a judge tells a jury they don't need to all agree on the same crime being committed- they just have to say he is guilty of one.
With TDS driven New Yorkers there is no such entity as an unbiased jury.
Now hop, hop, hop along to your next kangaroo trial.
Tell that to this TDS driven Democrat judge.
But hey, always good when the jury foreperson calls trial a "waste of time".
Which goes along with his limiting of evidence.
But hey whatever it takes to make Democrat kangaroo courts go.
But Trruuummmmppppp!!!!!!
Kamala and Democrats have no achievements to brag about or stand on their own with.
Their only hope is to make this about Trump and hope voters forget what they have done during the last 3 plus years.
He’s the option on Election Day. Of course, they’re going to say something about him. WTF do you expect? That’s how elections work.
Her word salad comments are of no concern to Trump. She has no grasp of the issues that are important to the American people.
She has a long record first of her own and secondly with Joe Biden.
She will have to defend it.
Have you seen Trump talk about sharks? The only person who rambles more than Trump isn’t running anymore.
Try again.
Talk to the hand. This guy is the pinnacle:
There is a second debate scheduled. Will Harris step up or cower?
the only debate kamala has scheduled is with vance. but it would be fun to watch an experienced prosecutor take down a convicted felon on live TV where proper debate rules can be enforced. I look forward to reading the rwnj spin here when trump invents excuses to avoid debating her, since probably no one in his campaign will allow it because of his ignorance.
If she's the candidate, that debate is now scratched. She should step in to the debate that was scheduled between Trump and Biden.
Trump has already shown he knows how to handle hookers. It would be fun to watch him take her down.
Other than paying them a lot of money how has he "handled" them ?
And in true Democrat fashion she will come running with her hands out for the money.
I dont think Kamala Harris wants any of trump's money.
So she's going to return Trumps donation to her campaign from 2011?
maybe he should sue...
Trump handles hookers by paying them off.
Well yeah, that's how 99.9% of those that use the services of hookers do it. I excepted .1% because I'm sure there's some bartering on occasion....
Of course, most clients do. Should they cheat hookers?
There is the "donation" Trump made to her...
Or use it as a campaign item.
... in usually less than 3 minutes, at 1000x the going rates.
The distinction between paying them and paying them off.
Did you never hear of her before today?
No need for that-- he's already been tried...and convicted.
Harris has said to a nationally known media figure off the record last night -
"this is going to be a street fight and I am ready".
Does that mean she will call Trump a "racist" like she did to Biden?
I wonder if she will follow Obama’s advice and bring a gun? Or has that already been tried by Biden?
She said she doesn't have details in front of her.
no need to restate what's been obvious for 50+ years...
Please state it.
It would be fitting if she did.
Funny, if Trump said this the left would be screaming he is promoting violence.
I'm wondering when all the democrat chaos will end.
So she's a street walker?
BTW, the Hearing on the Secret Service failure is currently being carried by Fox News and C-Span 2.
The fact that CNN and MSNBC are not covering the House Oversight Committee hearing on the Secret Service failure on July 13th speaks volumes.
Would that that be like when Fox never covered the J6 hearings ?
Link please.
I recall that they did.
Why the need to make stuff up?
Major broadcasters aired the Jan. 6 committee hearings live. Fox News did not
From your own link:
The network chose to air it on its business channel, the Fox Business Network, instead.
Fox News did not cover it live.
You said they didn't cover it:
Would that that be like when Fox never covered the J6 hearings ?
Would that be due to FOX News out performing FOX Business 10-1 in viewership?
If it never happened then there are no links to it happening.
(But you already knew that).
Post 5.1.4 proves that they did cover it on their business station.
"My name is Kimberly Cheatle."
Rep. Jamie Raskin spent his opening statement talking about gun control. That tells you where democrats are going.
Cheatle is already clinging to "there is an ongoing investigation, so I can't answer."
I think she is in for a hell of a day
She has said she has been in the Secret Service for 29 years , and worked on the details of both Democrat and Republican protectees. The right wing committee will have little success portraying this as a partisan failure.
I think they are simply going to say she wasn't qualified to be Secret Service Director.
I haven't heard anybody trying to pass this off as a partisan failure, but a failure of the USSS trying to do their job. The USSS is responsible for all planning and execution to protect past and current presidents and in this instance they failed completely. There's nothing in their failure that is the result of partisan shit.
It is a failure directly on her. Her inability to assign the proper amount and competent agents; not advance planning the local (complete and utter BS about the roof being slanted. The assassin had no problem shooting from it); and the direction she wants to move the agency (it should be the best people regardless of race, sex, religion, etc- not DEI hires).
You are thinking there was no lapse in Secret Service coverage and she is not ultimately responsible?
Rep Comer says, "some of us don't have a lot of confidence in the FBI."
I think many people have zero confidence in the FBI.
I agree. Conspiracy loons.
No, victims.
Didn't you make a statement that the FBI and Secret Service were in the tank for Trump?
Despite all of the evidence showing otherwise.
Look out!
Here comes Jim Jordan!
And still looking like he spent the day sniffing shorts in a locker room.
Cheatle dodged his question about whether the Trump team requested additional resources
So much for the maturity level of some comments
Just keeping up with the pace setters, you know them one and all and yet ignore those tossing muck from the 'right' side of the tracks.
Here is Elenor Norton to tell us about the Civil Rights Movement.
Now democrats are coming after Cheatle. They want her to say we need more "gun control."
I've caught bits and pieces of her testimony and Democrats and Republicans alike are tearing her apart.
I almost felt sorry for her, but I remembered how defiant she was.
I didn't feel sorry for her. She showed up completely unprepared and couldn't answer simple questions.
I expect nothing more from a Biden appointee.
DEI doesn't have one damned thing to do with the attempted assassination of Trump. Republicans are lying their asses off like any Democrat would to cover their own ass. The core problem is that Republicans want to run everything on the cheap. Cutting corners on essential services might make sense under Mitt Romney pirate business ethics but it's the idiot's way to run the government. The typical Republican don't know shit from Shinola about running a business; that's why so many businesses go out of business under Republican leadership. A closed business is a failure and nothing else. Republicans are supposed to be trying to turn the page on bullshit like this. If Republicans are confused then they should ask a Teamster.
How can the Secret Service recruit agents without money, benefits, and support? If something does happen, Republicans will kick the agents' asses around the room to cover their own ass. If the Secret Service increased its force size to provide necessary coverage for these events then Republicans would pull Gingrich's balls off the wall to B&M about all the money being wasted. The Republican House is directly and fully responsible for the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Period.
Republicans need to stop acting like Democrats and grow a pair. Man up. Take responsibility for your own stupid politics.
I thought secret service agents were supposed to be big enough to protect the President.
Well then, we need to elect smaller Presidents don't we? And, of course, the heads of those tall boys are bullet proof.
Look at the picture. Where do you think the threat is located? There isn't any coverage on the right side of that picture. The right side is not where there are layers of bodies to provide cover. Those agents know what they are doing. Do you know?
Each and every one of those agents put their lives on the line. They weren't sitting on a butt embossed leather chair and pretending they knew what they were talking about.
I don't deny that, but clearly the 3 agents who were stationed downstairs in the very building the shooter used, should have been on the roof.
It isn't about funding. It is about competence.
Those 'agents' weren't Secret Service; they were local rent-a-cops from the reporting I saw (which may have been updated). The sniper that killed Crooks was not Secret Service and may not have been Federal law enforcement. The Secret Service doesn't have the manpower to provide that kind of coverage.
These small town police forces don't have a military budget like big cities do. Places like Butler, PA, can't afford a paramilitary police force. And fiscal conservatives are going to complain about using taxpayer money to provide adequate coverage. Right now it is illegal to use campaign funds to pay for security so a candidate is stuck with whatever Congress is willing to fund. And Republicans in Congress have consistently tried to run government on the cheap. We're hoping that era is coming to an end.
Does it take a military budget to climb a roof? Or for the secret service to perform basic coordination on site?
Did Jill Biden's little get together indoors need twice as many agents as the outdoor Trump rally did?
She refused to step down and Biden refused to fire her.
She was pretty much savaged by both sides today.
I found it interesting that she said the Secret Service currently protects 36 individuals.
I only saw bits and pieces of Cheatle's testimony. The Congress critters were asking for a lot of operational details that couldn't be provided at a public hearing. (No surprise there; it's a common dirty trick.) And there are still details dribbling out that I hadn't heard before.
Cheatle's resume suggests that she knows what she is doing. The response to the shooter suggests that proper resources were available and coverage was adequate. The problem (or fault) seems to lie with the risk assessment of the threat environment. It appears that the planning relies upon chatter (social media, electronic communications, shopping patterns, etc.) to assess the threat level which would influence the amount of resources and type of coverage that would be needed. Crooks wasn't flying under the radar; Crooks avoided the radar altogether. And the operational setup didn't adjust. It's kinda the same thing that happened with the Chinese spy balloon (or whatever it was).
Biden firing Cheatle or accepting her resignation would be a political admission he screwed up which ain't gonna happen, especially where Trump is involved. Biden is going to blame Trump for being forced out so there's no incentive to give an inch. Cheatle is pretty much stuck because she has to worry about her retirement benefits.
Did you watch Cheatle's testimony? Do you think she's the most qualified person for the job?
No, I didn't see the testimony. Read my comments again, I'm not defending Cheatle. But I'm not going to stand by and allow the agents on the fire step to be bad mouthed, either. There weren't any shirkers in that group of agents.
If you got something against Kimberly Cheatle then okay. That's her job. But don't act like a chickenshit Democrat and attack the front line agents just to get Cheatle.
Why should she?
In a word: incompetence.
With that I'm going to say good night.
Shit happens in all departments. We don’t fire the police chief because a crime was committed. If an investigation shows failure by her specifically, I’ll be happy to see her quit or be fired. But I don’t support mindless scapegoating.
Kimberly Cheatle has resigned.
AMEN!
Now put in somebody that can answer simple questions about the department can fill the void.
Itis interesting to watch the hysterics from the left over DEI. Even when someone is undeniably a DEI appointment (kamala harris), many progressives will strenuously deny it. Judging by their denials whenever a beneficiary is pointed out, no one has ever benefited from it. That makes it even more bizarre they've designed their whole ideology around it. Their arguments are so divorced from reality they start throwing Nazi and "reactionary" labels at those who oppose the government or private actors discriminating on the base of race, gender or sexual orientation.
Think about it. These blueanon followers believe Nazis are the ones who oppose racial discrimination and other forms of biological determinism. It's impossible to make up something so ass backward.
But the neo-confederates trying to legalize race based discrimination know how incompatible their ideology is with the core American concept that people should be judged by the content of their character/performance/skill level and not the color of their skin. This cognitive dissonance is what leads to the bizarre denials when it is pointed out that someone is a DEI beneficiary.
She hit every key word except QUALIFIED.