Security expert rips Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle's 'sloped roof' excuse

Cheatle previously served as senior director of global security at PepsiCo

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Bill Stanton speaks with Fox News Digital on the Secret Service's actions leading up to and after the attempted assassination of former President Trump.

An executive security expert ripped Secret Service chief Kimberly Cheatle for failing to protect former President Trump on Saturday, saying the agency needs to clean house, especially after her "sloped roof" excuse. 

Bill Stanton, who has worked in the field for four decades, took aim at Cheatle's assertion that agents passed on manning a nearby roof used by shooter Thomas Crooks because it was sloped.

The would-be assassin climbed to the roof of the building and squeezed off several rounds that injured Trump and killed rally attendee Corey Comperatore. Two others were critically wounded.

"Her explanation that it was dangerous that the roof was pitched to me is the equivalent of a school child saying that the dog ate their homework," Stanton said. "How does that pass muster for anybody, regardless of political affiliation?"

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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.

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