Secret Service Acting Director Calls July 13 A "Failure Of Imagination"

Posted • July 30, 2024: Sen. Ted Cruz ended the career of Secret Service acting Director Ronald Rowe Tuesday at a joint hearing of the Judiciary and Homeland Security committees. Rowe took a lot of well-deserved abuse from Sens. Cruz and Josh Hawley for the failure of the Secret Service to protect Donald Trump from a sniper on a "sloped" rooftop in Butler, Pennsylvania earlier this month. Sen. Mike Lee also went off on Rowe, recalling how the Secret Service let Trump take the stage 17 minutes after receiving reports of a suspicious person with a rangefinder and then didn't remove him from the stage when they learned that would-be assassin Thomas Crooks had a gun with him up on that unmanned roof.

Lee wasn't done yet, though. The Post Millennial reports that Rowe told the committees that July 13 was a "failure of imagination." -- FYI, Acting Secret Service Director Ronald L. Rowe, Jr. worked for: 1. Obama White House. 2. Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy. (D-VT) -- Don't let him pretend he is a career, non-partisan law-enforcement official. He's a former partisan Democrat staffer. (…)

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