Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is calling for an audit of the Secret Service following the latest assassination attempt on President Donald Trump.
In a letter to Secret Service Director Sean Curran, Blackburn said the agency has demonstrated a “clear pattern of incompetence” that must be addressed. “It is apparent that the United States Secret Service is in desperate need of a course correction,” the letter adds. “For these reasons, I urge you to immediately commence a full, thorough audit of every single employee on your payroll. Unless you root out the rot, our nation will suffer the consequences.”
Cole Allen, the suspect behind the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner shooting, has been charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump.
According to Allen’s manifesto, where he called himself a “Friendly Federal Assassin,” he stated he was “no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” and declared that “this is the first real opportunity I’ve had to do something about it.”
“While I’m discussing this, I’ll also go over my expected rules of engagement (probably in a terrible format, but I’m not military so too bad.)” The manifesto added, “I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people *chose* to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to that.”
Allen’s preliminary hearing is set for May 11.
