'I Asked A Simple Question': Connolly Explodes At Secret Service Dir. After She Evades His Question

During a House Oversight Committee hearing on Monday, Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) asked Secret Service Director Kimberley Cheatle whether proliferation of firearms makes her job easier.

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[Deltaaaaaaaaa]

Love how this guy doesn’t actually care about what happened. He’s just trying to use this as a platform to get rid of firearms for law abiding citizens.

[carlkienzle]

He just embarrassed himself to the highest degree by asking a question with a ban guns agenda rather than sticking with any relevancy. What a clown. 😂😂😂😂.

[kevingallich]

He had an agenda and wanted to attack the 2A rights. She didn't feed into it. The gun isn't the issue. Its people with bad intentions.

[caryncastille]

Who the hell voted this guy in? Trying to turn a SS failure into a rebuke of the 2A is quite a stretch.

[pls]

This guy sounds nuts. "IT'S THE GUNS, ISN'T IT?! JUST SAY IT'S DA

[anthonybelham]

She was never going to answer any question even under OATH.

[tlee]

That was NOT a simple question to answer.

The accessibility to get guns makes her job harder, but the way he worded it, it is confusing as hell. The Secret Service's access to these same guns makes their ability to perform their jobs easier.

[s.c.]

And he starts off with demonizing AR's...Classic tactic of wanting to put the focus in the wrong place.

[digialityproductions]

Politicians are more dangers than any gun. Dude just answer for her with the answer you want the public to hear and get on with the circus.

[KickItToTheKing]

It’s a rarity here. For different reasons though, BOTH SIDES HATED THIS WOMAN TODAY. Entertaining to see

[shockman]

She should be sued for every penny in her pocket, in her bank, and in her retirement. The fact that she wants to stay after this shows how evil and corrupt she is.

[timmothy]

that question made no sense to me at all...i think he's stuck on making himself look stupid...

[james]

The only smart thing she did this whole day was not get involved in the gun debate.

[jaredpapa]

Some of our congressmen fell off the dumbass tree and hit every branch on the way down

[normadesmond]

Tell me he's a Demorat without telling me he's a Demorat.

[ihlbit]

Did anyone really expect her to give actual answers? Same thing every other head of an agency does.

[boatsanhs]

What a stupid line of questioning. Somehow he came out more incompetent than the director

[stevemt]

She should be put in jail for quiet solitude and contemplation.

[alleyfoxy]

She was right to evade this particularly loaded question. But that's pretty much it.

[BigBoiSlim]

This idiot’s line of questioning was absolutely pointless and aggravating! She definitely needs to be fired but he was clearly trying to bait her into a gun ban campaign as if it was the guns fault and not the shooter and her incompetence