Republican Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona visited Butler, Pennsylvania, on Monday with a bipartisan group of lawmakers and raised several questions about the attempted assassination of former President Trump. Crane, a former Navy SEAL sniper, filmed himself on the rooftop from which Thomas Crooks shot at Trump with a rifle, wounding the Republican candidate’s ear,...
Lawmakers grilled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Monday for more than four hours at a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing after her agency’s staggering July 13 security failure at a Pennsylvania campaign rally. Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, perched on the roof of a building and opened fire, wounding former President Donald Trump’s ear, killing...
The top two Democrats in Congress have announced they are getting behind former Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed President Biden in the November election. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., held a press conference at Senate Democrats’ campaign headquarters on Tuesday amid mounting speculation over whether they...
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., will resign from the Senate after significant pressure from Democrats to do so following a guilty verdict in his federal corruption case. A resignation letter from the senator was entered into the congressional record on Tuesday by Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., who was acting as chair of the Senate. Menendez informed...
Pennsylvania State Police shut down concerns by now-resigned Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle that the “sloped roof” the shooter used to nearly assassinate former President Trump was too unsafe for law enforcement officers. Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Christopher Paris made the statement during his testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday. Paris oversaw...
Progressive Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., called on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign on Monday. Khanna made the statement during Cheatle’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee. The lawmaker grilled Cheatle over the Secret Service’s failure to protect former President Trump, resulting in an shocking back-and-forth. “Director Cheatle, would you agree that this is...
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle opened her testimony to Congress with a frank admission that her agency “failed” in its mission to protect former President Trump. Cheatle testified before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, facing a grilling from Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike. Several GOP lawmakers have called on her to resign, though she...
FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, pressed National Public Radio (NPR) CEO Katherine Maher to prove that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) goals and wealthy, left-wing donors aren’t influencing editorial decisions inside the newsroom. “As a recipient of federal funding from the...
BUTLER, Pa. — A lone bike cloaked by a tree’s shade near a Pennsylvania manufacturing facility is a haunting reminder of a gunman’s hail of gunfire that nearly assassinated a former president. The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, rode the bicycle to Donald Trump’s rally in Butler and ditched it before he opened fire from a...
I started to write this essay about the pending blockbuster week on Capitol Hill. The week has been a little zany. I got distracted. I had to go back and find the proper Word document to continue. I searched for “blockbuster.” But it was mildly amusing when an essay popped up from February 27 of...
