'Bipartisan Disgust': Marsha Blackburn Blasts The Conduct Of The Secret Service After Trump Shooting

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At a Senate Republican press briefing on Tuesday, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) spoke about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

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00:00Blackburn is next. Thank you all. It really was quite an interesting hearing

00:06and as you all have seen there is bipartisan disgust with the conduct at

00:13the US Secret Service. I spent my time today covering the issue with FBI

00:20Director, Deputy Director Paul Abate and questioned him on the social media

00:28accounts that he had referenced and the other accounts that they are seeking to

00:33get information from. Now he had mentioned one account that said that

00:41Crooks was an anti-immigrant, individual, anti-semitic, etc. That was an earlier

00:52social media account. We still don't know the platform or the username and this

01:00was when Crooks was probably 14 or 15 years old. The second account is the more

01:08current account. It was an account at gab.com and this account shows Crooks to

01:17be someone who is leftist in his leanings. He was pro-illegal immigration.

01:25He was pro-lockdowns, pro those leftist policies. So what we need to hear from

01:34the FBI is clarity around this. We do not need them to come in and provide

01:40testimony where they are going to contradict themselves. We need some

01:46certainty. I don't know why they would be trying to nuance this. What we had was

01:54an assassination attempt on President Trump and we want to know what happened.

02:00The other point that I covered was the issue around whistleblowers and the

02:06culture that is at the Secret Service and this is something that the

02:12whistleblower who sent the email this morning pointed out that the mission at

02:20the Secret Service right now is CYA and that every supervisor is exercising CYA.

02:29I think this is completely inappropriate. These are people that have one mission

02:35and it is to make certain that you protect the individual that you're

02:40responsible for. There are 31 protectees that the Secret Service is responsible for.

02:47The urgency of their mission speaks to the fact this isn't like a federal

02:54agency that misses their casework numbers or a company that misses their

02:59revenue numbers. When the Secret Service screws up, people die. That is what we

03:05saw in Butler, Pennsylvania and they are going to have to be held to account for this.

'Bipartisan Disgust': Marsha Blackburn Blasts The Conduct Of The Secret Service After Trump Shooting

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