Questions surrounding the failure of the Secret Service to protect former President Donald Trump on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, continue to circulate as a supposed Iranian plot to assassinate him has been uncovered. Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) discussed the discovery in a recent appearance on Fox Business's Varney & Co., saying "leadership has got to be transparent" and the need for accountability.
While the Iranian plot is unconnected to the Saturday shooting, Sen. Scott said we currently "do not know enough."
"So I think it is important for Homeland Security Secretary [Alejandro] Mayorkas, for the director of the Secret Service, for [FBI Director] Christopher Wray to all come out and give us more information. Here is what is going to happen if they do not: It is just going to be all innuendo. This is the problem with our federal law enforcement agencies. We have wonderful people that work there, Secret Service agents, FBI agents, they are wonderful, they are trying to do their job. [But] the leadership has got to be transparent. They have got to say, 'this is what we know, this is what happened, and this is how someone is going to be held accountable because somebody messed up," the Florida Senator continued.
Host Stuart Varney asked Sen. Scott if Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle should resign or face termination, to which he said yes, explicitly saying he did not "know how she can continue to keep her job. It does not make sense."
"The American public expects accountability in companies; we have accountability. Everybody knows that when they go to work, if they do not do their job, they lose their job. Well, the federal government does not do that, and that is the one thing that frustrates Americans. So if she is the one who set up the security, the protocols, and all of this stuff and did not do it right, then she has to leave. If it was somebody else, they have to leave, but be transparent. And tell us how this is not going to happen again, and we do not want, whether it is Biden, or Trump, or Harris, or Vance, we do not want our politicians shot," Scott concluded.
Representative Cory Mills (R-FL) similarly spoke of the need for transparency and accountability in investigating the Trump assassination attempt, saying Congress should establish a "J13" commission to uncover the truth.
