Watch the Secret Service Director Flee the RNC When Confronted by GOP Senators 

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United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle should be out of a job now. Her agency failed to protect former President Donald Trump, who was nearly assassinated in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13. A rooftop with a clear vantage point to the stage at the rally was never secured or even swept—all of this when the location was flagged as a security vulnerability. Trump escaped death that day, missing getting hit with a fatal headshot by millimeters. Why wasn’t the roof secure? Cheatle said that the sloped roof was a safety concern. I’m not kidding:

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has come up with an excuse: It would have been too dangerous to put snipers on the roof because it was sloped. 

"That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there's a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn't want to put somebody up on a sloped roof,"  Cheatle told ABC News Monday. "And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside." Read more, see Xs and videos here.