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The Crisis Within the Secret Service

The Daily Signal

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Government, Daily News, News, Politics

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

It has been six weeks since the attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the American public’s questions about the nature of the attack and the security failings that led to Trump’s brush with death largely go unanswered. Jason Chaffetz, a Fox News contributor and former Utah Congressman who once chaired the House Oversight Committee, joined The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss the apparent security failures and ongoing investigations into what transpired in Butler on July 13. “I thought the extraction was very slow. I thought it was fairly pathetic,” Chaffetz told The Daily Signal. “It’s been illuminated more now that even though he was the Republican nominee, even though he was the former president, he wasn’t getting the full protective detail that a sitting president would get. And I have a problem with that.” Chaffetz believes the failures are structural. Poor recruitment and training, as well as heavy workloads create a perfect storm for the kinds of security lapses witnessed on July 13 in Butler, Chaffetz suggested. These problems have long plagued the Secret Service. When Chaffetz chaired the House Oversight Committee, he conducted the largest investigation into the Secret Service’s operations in American history. The investigation resulted in a more than 400 page report titled, “United States Secret Service: An Agency in Crisis.” The former Utah Congressman remains “skeptical” that the current investigations in Congress will yield the policy changes necessary to improve the Secret Service without Congress using the power of the purse to “hold them accountable.” Enjoy the show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.3

It is Tuesday, August 27th, and this is the Daily Signal Podcast. I'm Bradley Devlin, the politics editor for the Daily Signal, and today I'll be talking to Jason Chaffetz.

0:15.3

Now you might know Jason as a Fox News contributor, but before that he served as the

0:19.0

congressman from Utah's third district and the chairman of the House Oversight Committee.

0:23.4

During his time in Congress he led the largest investigation into the Secret Service in the

0:27.2

nation's history.

0:28.7

So stay tuned for my interview with Jason Schaffetz right after this message.

0:39.8

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0:53.0

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0:55.0

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1:00.0

Joining me now to discuss the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump and the fallout from the Secret Service is Jason Chafitz.

1:08.6

Jason, thank you for joining the show.

1:10.2

Thanks for having me, appreciate it.

1:11.6

So first, we just glance right over the fact

1:15.8

that there was an attempt on the former president's life.

1:19.0

Take me back to that day, July 13th.

1:21.6

Where were you when you heard about it?

1:23.4

Did you see it live?

1:24.7

And what did you think when you saw the President's near brush

1:27.4

with death?

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