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Democrats vs. the Man Who Could Get to the Bottom of the Trump Shooting
Shown, DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari. Republicans say he has been stonewalled by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on a Jan. 6 probe that might have revealed Secret Service lapses before the attempt on Donald Trump’s life.
Democrats vs. the Man Who Could Get to the Bottom of the Trump Shooting
By Julie Kelly, RealClearInvestigationsJuly 30, 2024 After the evasive House testimony of now-former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and FBI Director Christopher Wray’s shortlived sugge
After the evasive House testimony of now-former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and FBI Director Christopher Wray’s shortlived suggestion that Donald Trump may not have been hit by a bullet, one man alone may help allay Republican fears that the Biden administration will not conduct a forthright investigation into the attempted assassination of Trump last month: Joseph Cuffari.
The Trump-appointed inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security has already opened two investigations into the U.S. Secret Service, which is under the purview of the DHS, related to the agency’s handling of the July 13 shooting.
But some Republicans are concerned because, they say, Cuffari has been stonewalled by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on other internal examinations – including one that might have revealed Secret Service lapses that might have prevented the attempt on Trump’s life.
Specifically, congressional sources tell RCI that Cuffari’s report, “USSS Preparation for and Response to the Events of January 6, 2021,” has been on Mayorkas’ desk since at least April.
The report, according to Politico, will “cast light on a series of embarrassing security lapses for the agency.” And given some comparisons between Jan. 6 and July 13, the report might shed light on systemic issues that impacted both events.
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Top Democrats have long sought to remove Cuffari – a former investigator for the Air Force and Department of Justice whom Trump appointed in 2019 in 2019 – from office. The coordinated effort began when the IG notified Congress that a trove of Secret Service texts from January 5 and 6, 2021 had been deleted in late January 2021 under the Biden administration. The purge occurred weeks after every federal agency received a directive from Congress to preserve all evidence related to January 6.
Cuffari said messages belonging to at least 24 Secret Service officials including then director James Murray and Cheatle, who was an assistant director of the agency on January 6, were gone. So, too, were the texts of then acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and acting deputy secretary Ken Cuccinelli, both Trump appointees.
Commentary:
Could it be that everything went according to plan except for the missed shot?
Don’t put your faith in a man. People can be threatened, bought or eliminated. Nobody in government really wants to get to the bottom of what happened. They just wanted Trump gone. Now, they are going to have to hope for a ‘meteor’.
The fact that Trump is alive is a gift of providence.
The USSS did everything to allow a shooter able to access a position capable of shooting Trump.
The evidence is clear and it begins withing the office of A. Mayorkas Director of DHS.
