Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was adamant that she directed “additional assets to be provided” for President Trump’s Butler, Pa., rally a year ago and refuted Sen. Rand Paul’s blistering report.
Paul (R-Ky.) alleged that Cheatle had not been truthful to Congress when she testified that the Secret Service didn’t deny Trump’s team resources it requested for the Butler, Pa. rally.
“The Director of the Secret Service is not typically directly engaged in the approval or denial of requests for support,” she said in a statement Sunday, released by her attorney. “For the Butler rally, I actually did direct additional assets to be provided, particularly in the form of agency counter-snipers.”
Kimberly Cheatle vehemently refuted allegations that she gave misleading testimony to Congress. The Washington Post via Getty Images
“Any assertion or implication that I provided misleading testimony is patently false and does a disservice to those men