Several Senate Republicans publicly criticized the briefing they received today from Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle, Deputy Director Ron Rowe, FBI Director Chris Wray and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate about Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
The Senate phone briefing was held at 3 p.m. ET, later followed by a briefing to the House of Representatives.
Senate GOP Conference Chair John Barrasso called for Cheatle to leave her post in a statement after the briefing. “Someone has died. The President was almost killed. The head of the Secret Service needs to go,” he said.
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson also wrote on X, including the list of questions that he’d passed along to the briefers when he didn’t get a chance to speak on the call.
“The USSS Senate briefing was unbelievably uninformative. Only 4 questions were allowed,” he said. “The rest of us are supposed to submit questions. I already have. Awaiting a response. Not holding my breath.”
