Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and acting US Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe, Jr. entered into a heated exchange during Tuesday’s joint Senate committee hearing regarding the response to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
Trump was nearly assassinated on July 13 while speaking to a crowd at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The FBI on Monday morning told reporters that would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks accessed the roof of a building near the rally by climbing up HVAC equipment and piping.
Crooks then traversed multiple rooftops before he found his shooting position on top of a building owned by American Glass Research (AGR), located near the Butler Farm Show fairgrounds about 150 yards from where the former president spoke at his rally.
The FBI hosted a press conference call with reporters more than two weeks after 20-year-old Crooks fired at Trump with a DPMS AR-15-style firearm with a collapsible stock during the rally in an assassination attempt that nicked the president’s ear but left one man dead and two others hospitalized with gunshot wounds.
Leaders on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee are making a sweeping request for records as part of the panel’s investigation into the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.
The Trump campaign announced the Butler rally on July 3, and three days later, Crooks signed up for the event. That same day — July 6 — he researched how far Lee Henry Oswald was from the late President John F. Kennedy when Oswald assassinated the former president in 1963. On July 7, he traveled to the rally site and spent approximately 20 minutes in the area, Rojak said.
Trump took the podium around 6 p.m. — an hour after he was scheduled to speak. Eleven minutes later, Crooks fired multiple rounds, killing 50-year-old Corey Comperatore and seriously wounding 57-year-old David Dutch and 74-year-old James Copenhaver. Dutch was hospitalized and has since been released, while Copenhaver remains hospitalized.
FBI officials are still working to determine Crooks’ motive behind the assassination attempt that rocked Butler and neighboring townships. They are also still working to determine whether Crooks planned with any coconspirators, though the agency clarified on Monday that there are no signs to indicate there were others involved.
Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) — the committee chair and ranking member, respectively — and Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who lead a key subcommittee, sent letters on Thursday to the Secret Service, FBI, Department of Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis, Beaver County District Attorney, Butler County District Attorney, Butler County Sheriff, Butler Township Police Department and Pennsylvania State Police.
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Ronald Rowe is acting Director to cover-up the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, he's a seasoned bureaucrat.
Ted Cruz is badass love how he got control over Rowe not allowing him to filibuster, well done.
All these politicians are nothing but "actors" in front of the common people. Who by the way don't have a clue as to what these "politicians" are really about! Do your homework..look beyond the "issues" they project, instead do some research as to "who each of them are" how they live and conduct their lives. Are they different in the way they live and are educated? The common people would be very surprised to learn that there is no commonality between the two. So how can one group advocate for and defend the other whom they no nothing about? What if the common people were made aware that most all politicians come from the same tree? They are all well educated in the most elite and wealthiest universities, they live beyond their means, having lifestyles that are unlike the common people (the tax payers) and they all steal from the tax payers. They steal by not being transparent as they pretend. They create the laws that protect them from the common people, the laws "they use against the tax payer". They then run a seperate financial systems from the common people. It's made up of Foundations and Non Profits, with revenues in the "trillions". All paid for by the working class slave.
Trump belongs in prison!!!!
Than you Mr Cruz
America sucks lol
That Bastard ted was the one interrupting
Stupid questioner!
Who's interrupting who
Rowe is just another liberal puppet…
Cruz did not object to the Secret Service incompetence when deleting all texts on phones on 6 Jan, but he objects now . How sad
If that was a real attack trump would of been the next Biden
You can be an interviewer without being emotional.
Cruz went full on judge judy mode on his ass lmao
Stop interrupting me im on my way to Mexico
WHY AREN'T LIE DETECTORS USED to ascertain his vague answers?
Secret Service is lying
Shameful secret service man
S/S IS POLITICAL
No they did not. They knew the plan was failure to protect.
DC is involved
Cruz is one ego pumped jerk. Seriously Ted…. who hurt you?
Why cant say YES or NO a 5 grade can answer that question
If they dont answer the questions put them in jail
and THAT **** is in charge of security in your country …. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Secret service needs to go too!
This is one of the most corrupt governments in the world.
Ill never understand why they even have these meeting they never tell the truth and most times nust ignore the question and go off about something else.
The FBI and Secret Service have been personal weapons used by the left for the past few years .they are all their brainwashed robots .. and they are all so terrified of trump getting in , exposing all their disgusting behavior and putting them all in prison ..I CANT WAIT ! And they should all be ashamed of themselves
Sir sir stop interrupting me but your steady interrupted him won't even let him speak