Ted Cruz, GOP Senators claim Trump shooting protection was ’politically motivated’ | LiveNOW FOX

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said the acting U.S. Secret Service director may have acknowledged their failure to secure the roof a shooter was able to take fires at former President Trump from on July 13 was indefensible, but afterward continued with the same stonewalling pattern seen in the Biden administration’s agency. Cruz spoke after a hearing on the attempted assassination of Trump, saying former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle should have been fired after the failed security detail. “She should have resigned the day of the shooting. She did not. She should have been fired the day of the shooting. She was not,” Cruz said. “Acting director [Ronald Rowe, Jr.] at least acknowledged that their failure to secure the roof from where the shooter fired was indefensible. That being said, he continued the pattern we have seen from the Biden administration of stonewalling in this hearing.” The senator continued, taking aim at the Biden administration’s Secret Service. “Apparently, i