The House was holding a hearing on Thursday on the Trump assassination attempts. They were questioning acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe.
Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) was questioning Rowe about the coverage, and he ripped Rowe for waiting days before going to Butler, Pennsylvania, after the first Trump assassination attempt occurred there in July.
Fallon then raised the coverage of President-elect Donald Trump and other protectees on 9/11 at Ground Zero in New York City during the 2024 commemoration ceremonies. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and JD Vance were all there. Fallon asked Rowe if he was the SAC (Special Agent in Charge) that day. That’s when things went off the rails. Rowe started flipping out, claiming Fallon was politicizing 9/11, which he certainly wasn’t.
At the Trump assassination hearing, chaos erupts after Rep. Pat Fallon asks Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe about his appearing as a dignitary, rather than for security at a 9/11 memorial event pic.twitter.com/52EX8C46I5
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Fallon was having none of that and went right back at him, saying, “Don’t try to bully me!”
“You know why you were there, because you wanted to be visible, because you are