GOP Rep. William Timmons of South Carolina pressed Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle on Monday on reports that the Pittsburgh Secret Service field office sent four times the number of additional agents to cover a first lady Jill Biden event than to former President Donald Trump’s July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he was shot.

Cheatle neither confirmed nor denied that was the case.

Biden was speaking at an event at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh for approximately 300 people close to the same time Trump was speaking at his rally attended by several thousand, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune.

Timmons started out his questioning of Cheatle asking if she agreed with the statement that Secret Service resources allocated to a particular events should correspond to the risk profile of it.

The director agreed.

“And when two events occur at the same time and the same geographic vicinity that the risk profile of each event should be taken into account, and whichever event is greater risk should receive greater resources?” the congressman continued.

“That is correct,” Cheatle replied.

The lawmaker than contrasted Trump’s outdoor rally, when he has been under specific threats from Iran, to Biden’s indoor event.

We are asking Secret Service Director Cheatle a lot of straight questions and not getting any straight answers.

The former and future President was shot. There were multiple injuries. Someone was killed.

Director Cheatle called the resources that day “sufficient.”

Director… pic.twitter.com/0AurV0qNnn

— Congressman William Timmons (@RepTimmons) July 22, 2024

“President Trump is the former president and the future president, so I would say that that is a fairly high risk event. Would you agree?” Timmons asked.

“Yes,” Cheatle replied.

“There’s a huge disparity relative to risk. Would you agree?” the congressman continued.

The director hesitated a moment and then answered, “Yes.”

“Multiple whistleblowers and various media outlets have reported that the Pittsburgh field office of the Secret Service allocated 12 additional post standers to the first lady’s event and three additional post standers to the Trump rally. Is that correct?” Timmons asked.

The director stated that no assets were diverted from the Trump rally to Biden’s event.

Timmons interrupted saying that was not his question. He specifically wanted to know about the 12 to three allocation of additional agents at the events.

Cheatle did not answer that question.

“The number of personnel that were allocated to both of those events were comparable to the risk at both of those events,” she asserted.

Timmons then noted that Trump was shot, along with multiple rally attendees. One, 50-year-old Corey Comperatore, was killed.

The congressman suggested if nine more Secret Service agents had been on hand, it could have been a very different day.

“There were significantly more assets and resources available at the former president’s event than there were at the first lady’s event,” Cheatle said.

“Who made the decision to deploy 12 post standers to the casino, where the first lady was having a 400 person dinner, and only three people from the Pittsburgh field office to the 20,000 person-plus Trump rally?” Timmons asked.

Cheatle only said, “The allocation of resources is decided based on the availability of personnel and their location and where they are, but there were sufficient resources that were given to the former president’s event that day.”

Timmons appeared surprised by her response.

“Did you just say there were sufficient resources?” he questioned. “President Trump got shot. Someone got killed. There were not sufficient resources, clearly.”

“There was a gap,” Cheatle said.

Timmons concluded that the person who decided to send more resources to the Biden event over Trump’s needs to be fired — and Cheatle herself should resign.

“You’ve lost the trust of the American people,” he said.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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On May 8, 2024, Antonio Graceffo’s article “Middle East Charities Funding Terrorism” caused an unfortunate misunderstanding. The article referenced a sham charity, Human Appeal International, which has ties to Hamas and was funding terrorism. Unfortunately, a very legitimate and respected US-based charity, Human Appeal USA (HAUSA), has a similar name. The article did not intend to disparage or even reference HAUSA. This illustrates how terrorists can sometimes obfuscate their activities by using names that sound legitimate or appealing.

Once again, there was no intent to accuse Human Appeal USA (HAUSA) of any connection to terrorism or the funding of terrorism. The article has since been updated, removing any reference to either organization to avoid further confusion.

Antonio Graceffo

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DNC chairman Jaime Harrison appeared on the Today show on Tuesday and claimed that the process to make Kamala Harris the official Democrat nominee will be fast but completely fair and transparent.

That would probably be news to the millions of Democrat voters who cast ballots for Joe Biden during the Democrat primary.

The process of placing Kamala at the top of the ticket looks like it was done in dark, smoke-filled back rooms with Democrat power players and top donors. It has been anything but grass roots.

FOX News reports:

Democratic National Committee chair Jaime Harrison was pressed on Tuesday about whether President Biden was “bullied out of office” by members of the Democratic Party, following the president’s decision to withdraw from the 2024 race.

“Listen, the president, we owe him a tremendous amount of gratitude. He’s a good man. He’s a decent man. He’s been a transformational president. But what he also demonstrated by stepping out of this race is that he is selfless,” Harrison told NBC’s “Today” co-host Craig Melvin…

Harrison also discussed their process at the DNC and explained how they plan to nominate Harris.

“This process is going to be fair, transparent, open, but it’s going to be fast. And we have designed it to allow our nominees to really hit the measures and to hit the requirements that are necessary to be on the ballot in all 50 states. And in Ohio, in order to be on that ballot, you have to have not only a presidential nominee but also a vice presidential nominee. So it is going to be up to the eventual nominee to make that determination. But we have designed this process so that they have the sufficient time in order to select who that may be,” Harrison said.

Watch the video below:

DNC Chair @harrisonjaime says on TODAY that the Presidential and VP nominees will be settled before the convention, telling @craigmelvin that “If we’re going to be on all 50 ballots, we have to have all that done and locked up by August 7.” pic.twitter.com/KqNo7h4jaj

— TODAY (@TODAYshow) July 23, 2024

Democrats are gaslighting the American people with the Harris decision just like they did over Biden’s mental health. The only thing that has changed is the name at the top of the ticket.

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Democrats and the media are acting like the switching out of Biden for Kamala Harris solves all of their problems. It does not.

Even CNN data analyst Harry Enten is reporting that based on the numbers, it’s going to be ‘difficult’ for Harris to beat Trump.

This will become even more clear as new polling emerges in about a week.

RedState has details:

CNN’s Harry Enten Drops the Reality Hammer on Kamala Harris’ Dreams

The Democratic power brokers are trying to pump up the excitement for Kamala Harris because she has a limited amount of time to lock up the nomination before the convention and avoid any effort to have a floor fight that might dethrone her. She’s gotten some consequential endorsements from the elite. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appears to have come around now and George Clooney is on board as well.

Of course, that doesn’t say anything about the rest of the country, who don’t care much what the elite think and that’s really the problem for Harris. She’s not popular, in fact she’s even less popular than Joe Biden according to some polls. As I previously wrote, former President Donald Trump is still running ahead of her, as even MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki had to admit.

But now there’s more bad news for Harris from CNN data analyst Harry Enten. He put a damper on the propaganda parade. “For all of the excitement that Democrats have over Kamala Harris, it’s going to be difficult to beat Donald Trump,” he said.

Watch the clip below:

CNN’s Harry Enten Sounds Alarm On How ‘Difficult’ It’ll Be For Kamala Harris To ‘Beat Donald Trump’ pic.twitter.com/tLui8t5mDN

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 23, 2024

Wait until Harris starts doing more media and begins laughing in the middle of answers to serious questions. Her appeal will sink and it won’t take long.

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Democrats may end up regretting their decision to kick Joe Biden to the curb in favor of Kamala Harris.

They could end up going in to their Chicago convention with a candidate who polls even lower than Biden did.

And it’s not just that Harris is unpopular, it’s the way the party did this bait and switch move so quickly and with support only from power players rather than voters, who were basically disenfranchised.

Breitbart News reports:

Democrats’ abrupt and desperate move to ditch incumbent President Joe Biden as their 2024 presidential candidate and instead coronate Vice President Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket is already showing signs of backfiring on their party and playing right into GOP presidential nominee former President Donald Trump’s hands.

First and foremost, the mad dash by Democrats over the past several weeks since the late June debate between Trump and Biden to force the reluctant-to-drop-out Biden out of the race severely weakened Biden’s standing to the point where he basically had no choice politically but to drop…

The move has been so quick and swift, made in a frenzied panic by Democrats fearful of what the numbers were showing and the effect that a weak Biden would have on their down-ticket prospects, that the shift reeks of desperation…

As this top-of-the-ticket move solidifies, and it becomes clearer and clearer that Democrats are now stuck with Harris—just as they were previously stuck with Biden—it begs the question: Did they make a critical mistake? The early evidence would suggest that, yes, they did.

Look at the polling numbers below. Some of them are shocking.

#Recent National Trump vs Harris Polls:

.@J_L_Partners/@DailyMail:
Trump 49% (+11)
Harris 38%
.@Socal_Research:
Trump 52% (+8)
Harris 44%
.@EmersonPolling:
Trump 49% (+6)
Harris 43%
.@Harris_X_/@Forbes:
Trump 52% (+4)
Harris 48%
.@NoblePredictive:
Trump 48% (+4)
Harris 44%
.…

— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) July 22, 2024

And what about this?

Barely 12 hours ago, leading writers of the New York Times rated Kamala Harris as the least electable of 10 possible Democratic nominees. Yet the selection process is already over. If Harris loses, as appears likelier than not, the party’s leaders will have much to explain. pic.twitter.com/xFowaJYUmH

— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) July 23, 2024

And now they are pretty much stuck with Harris. If they were to nominate someone else at their convention, they would be on their third nominee in a matter of weeks which would make them look like an absolute joke.

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