WATCH: GOP Senators Ambush Secret Service Director At RNC: ‘You Owe President Trump Answers’

White House Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle tried her best not to let a furious crowd of Republican U.S. senators rattle her she appeared on site Wednesday to protect former President Donald Trump in Milwaukee.

The stone-faced security chief was caught on candid camera striding through a hallway at the Republican National Convention as Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) peppered her with a blizzard of questions and concerns about the agency’s failure to stop Saturday’s attempted assassination of Trump. Blackburn posted the video on X, writing, “The American people deserve answers from the Secret Service.”

“Stonewalling!” Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) yells in the clip. “You owe the people answers! You owe President Trump answers!” Blackburn shouts in agreement. Both were blocked off by agents surrounding Cheatle, who quickly pivoted to ascend a nearby staircase as she escaped the fracas.

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The American people deserve answers from the Secret Service. pic.twitter.com/PNFF11v00Q

— Marsha Blackburn (@VoteMarsha) July 18, 2024

Cheatle is under tremendous pressure to explain her previous comments defending a decision by agents at Saturday’s rally to not place a member on the roof where 20-year-old Thomas Crooks was able to fire off eight high-caliber rounds toward the stage where President Trump stood. At times she has vacillated between accepting responsibility, blaming local police, or claiming the roof was not an ideal vantage point due to its slope. FBI agents are also investigating why a local police officer backed away from intercepting Crooks just seconds before the shooting, and reports on Monday suggested that authorities were in the same warehouse complex as Crooks where he moseyed aimlessly for up to an hour before the shooting.

Republicans have pounced on the security lapse and promised a fresh round of oversight hearings that will surely lead to Cheatle answers more questions under oath. She has insisted she will not resign.

After being nicked by one of the rounds, President Trump credited his phalanx of burly male agents and several women with saving his life. However, allies of the president have pointed to the failure of the female agents to fully block Trump with their bodies and circulated video of one who appeared unable to holster her weapon in the midst of the crisis; on Wednesday Trump was spotted at the Republican convention touting an all-male Secret Service team.

Motives of Crooks for attempting the assassination remain unclear. Neighbors and former classmates have described him as a loner and upset with politicians in both major parties. Local Republican activists who lived near the Crooks household confirmed that Trump lawn signs and other GOP staples of support were never delivered to them; Pennsylvania voter records list Crooks’ father as a libertarian and his mother as a registered Democrat.

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