MTG Asks Secret Service Director If There Was A ‘Conspiracy To Kill President Trump’

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Monday demanded to know if the Secret Service was engaged in a “conspiracy to kill” former President Donald Trump when he was nearly assassinated earlier this month.

It was one of a number of conspiracy theories floated about the shooting during the House Oversight Committee’s questioning of Kimberly Cheatle, the Secret Service director who so far has said she will not resign despite the admitted massive security failure that allowed the 20-year-old shooter to take multiple shots at Trump with a semiautomatic rifle.

Multiple members of Congress — including Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) — called for Cheatle to resign Monday.

“The people there knew that there was a danger, they knew there was a threat to President Trump, and it was allowed to happen,” Greene bellowed as the time expired on her questioning of the Secret Service director. “Was there a stand-down order, Ms. Cheatle? Was there a conspiracy to kill President Trump?!”

“No, absolutely not,” Cheatle responded.

Greene demanded to know why the director had not resigned and how the shooting was allowed to happen. “That is what we are investigating to determine,” Cheatle said.

There’s no evidence to support any claims that law enforcement participated in the assassination attempt. Greene’s wild question was one of several nods to conspiracy theories about the shooting throughout Monday’s hearing.

In the week since the shooting — which created an extremely tense environment that experts warn could generate more political violence — several high-profile conservatives have floated unfounded, inflammatory theories. Eric Trump heavily implied in a Fox News appearancethat Democrats