Bill Maher has told Pete Buttigieg that Joe Biden “doesn’t seem to have time” to investigate the attempted assassination of Trump as no one has been fired yet.
Maher questioned the Secretary of Transportation about the Secret Service’s shortcomings, allowing 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks to grill the former president at a pre-scheduled rally in Pennsylvania.
This comes as Biden faces calls to fire Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who has not yet resigned.
“Should Joe Biden have fired the head of the Secret Service?” Maher asked Buttigieg on his HBO show Real Time on Friday. “I don’t get it.”
“I’m not privy to all the details from the Homeland Security side,” Buttigieg said. “I do know there’s a very serious after-action report and process and a lot of oversight.”
Maher questioned the Secretary of Transportation about the Secret Service’s shortcomings, allowing 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks to grill the former president at a pre-scheduled rally in Pennsylvania
“I think, you know, everything that led up to that moment, that horrible moment, is under a microscope,” he added. “And I believe that President Biden and the administration will do the right thing.”
But Maher resisted. “Well, you didn’t need a microscope to see it,” the announcer said. “The guy was on the roof, you know, not too far away.”
“I’ve seen people fired for less, and it just looks bad,” he said. “It looks like, ‘Well, that other guy from the other side got shot. Well, we’ll look into it when we have time.’”
Security officials had potential assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks under surveillance for more than 40 minutes before he shot Donald Trump.
A photo showing the shooter crawling on the ground as he scanned the area was reported to police as a suspicious sighting at 5:30 p.m. during the protest in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 14, according to WPXI.
At approximately 6:11 p.m., Crooks took up position on the sloped roof of a warehouse and fired at Trump from a distance of about 500 feet, wounding him in the ear and killing retired Fire Chief Corey Comperatore.
Two other images also showed a bicycle owned by Crooks that was found close to the crime scene, and a remote igniter who was found near his dead body along with his mobile phone.
It was later revealed that the detonator was linked to explosives found in his car.
The shooter also acted strangely around the metal detectors that visitors had to walk through before entering the event grounds. Witnesses said Crooks was angrily checking his phone and operating a hunting rangefinder.
Bill Maher has told Pete Buttigieg that it appears Joe Biden ‘doesn’t have time’ to investigate Trump assassination attempt – as no one has been fired yet
Security officials had potential assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks on their radar for more than 40 minutes before he shot Donald Trump
He tried to enter at that point but the detector went off and he was denied entry, sources said.
Crooks used an AR-style rifle, which authorities believe was purchased by his father.
The roof where Crooks lay was less than 164 yards (150 meters) from where Trump was speaking. A reasonable shooter could have hit a human-sized target at that distance.
That’s the distance at which U.S. Army recruits must hit a human-sized silhouette to qualify for the M-16 rifle.
In addition to the explosives in his car, investigators also found a bulletproof vest and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, which along with a ladder, had been purchased on the same day of the shooting.
The series of revelations raised even more questions about the Secret Service’s handling of the event, with controversial chief Kimberley Cheatle bizarrely saying that authorities considered the roof too risky a place to station an agent.
