Military veterans and former prosecutors are among the members of a special U.S. House of Representatives task force that plans to probe the attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump.
Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), a former U.S. Army major and and emergency room physician; Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.) who served in the U.S. Army Special Forces; and Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-Md.), a former prosecutor, are three of the members tapped by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to serve on the body, the leaders announced on July 29.
The House unanimously voted on July 24 to approve a resolution to create the task force, but the members were not known until Monday.
The seven Republican members also include Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), a businessman; Rep. Dave Joyce (R-Ohio), a former county prosecutor; Rep. Laurel Lee (R-Fla.), a former federal prosecutor and state judge; Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.), a former U.S. Army staff sergeant and police officer; and Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas), a former U.S. Air Force officer.
Along with Mr. Ivey, the Democrats on the committee are Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), a former U.S. Army Ranger; Rep. Lou Correa (D-Calif.), a longtime lawmaker; Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.), a lawyer and former teacher; Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.), a former U.S. Air Force officer; and Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), the onetime director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management.
The task force will have the ability to issue subpoenas as it investigates the July 13 assassination attempt against former President Trump, which occurred in Butler, Pennsylvania. The task force must produce a report on the assassination attempt by Dec. 13. The task force has also been directed to recommend how Congress can take legislative steps to prevent future assassination attempts.
Mr. Johnson and Mr. Jeffries in a joint statement said the task force will “move quickly to find the facts, ensure accountability, and make certain such failures never happen again.”
Officials have said Thomas Crooks, who they identified as the shooter, should not have been able to get a clear view of the former president from a building approximately 430 feet from where he was speaking during the outdoor rally. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who resigned on July 23, said on the day prior that the shooting was the agency’s “most significant operational failure in decades.”
The FBI is also investigating the assassination attempt with help from the Pennsylvania State Police, while the Secret Service is conducting an internal probe and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general is investigating what happened.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has also named members to a panel to finish an independent review of actions taken by federal, state, and local authorities before, during, and after the rally.
Members include Janey Napolitano, a former secretary of homeland security; Frances Townsend, a former federal homeland security official, and David Mitchell, former superintendent of the Maryland State Police.
Next Wray and the beguiling FBI will tell us that the shooter was only on the roof to get a better view of Trump, Like Zacheus climbed the Sycamore Tree to get a better view of Christ,,, He forgot his binoculars but remembered he still had a scope on his gun in the car and accidentally tripped on the roof and tripped off his trigger????, Right! They are as believable as the media claiming JD Vance made love not on, but to his couch. Proof positive Jimmy Carter made one big mistake with the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 when he opened the insane asylums and let out the future Democrat politicians, and FBI and their bought manipulating media maven leaders. Like Zacheous, wee little men who want to be as big as a RINO, are they who cannot see the forest for the trees, or the real shooter either and the people who paid him up front. Time for a Come to Jesus moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8GJXE7e5s0
When Jesus told Zaccheus he was coming to his house today, it was a Savior about to and dine with sinners. When Joe and Kamala’s God Goverment FBI forget to tell you they are coming to your houee today, its the surprise sinner who arrives to give you a Mar A Lago experience that turns you house upside down and eat you alive.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has also named members to a panel to finish an independent review of actions taken by federal, state, and local authorities before, during, and after the rally.
Mayorkas lacks any credibility !!
A dem elected and packed panel that will be about as independent as a formerly strong self-governing American they have beguiled and turned into a government vote bought entitlement dependent,,, that is the real threat to American democracy and our ability to collectively Self-govern our own nation.
Like Obama mentor Saul ALinsky said;
“Poverty – Increase the Poverty level as high as possible,
poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.
Debt
– Increase the debt to an unsustainable level.. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
Nothing new or original about anything Joe and Kamala have embraced to the destruction of the state and the people induced poverty that only enriches the ruling class.
THEY CAN investigate all they want. WE ALL know not a single person will be fired, jailed or otherwise punished over this.
Well there you go a bunch of no name imbeciles that will fallow what ever Hakeem tells them to do, as the deep state alphabet soup agencies have already done their mop up and Whitewash operations!
When the State Police got to the shooters house the FBI had already scrubbed it from top to bottom!
These investigations are going to find less than they did in Las Vegas, which was nothing but speculation by the authorities!
THAT IS WHY THE govt shouldn’t be in the role of INVESTIGATING THE GOVTS Malfesance..
That would be like asking the bank robber, to investigate himself! STUPID.