Give Them Credit! CNN Grilled Mayorkas on Trump Assassination Attempt

Monday morning began with a flood of information regarding the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump Saturday afternoon. Following a clear fluke by the secret Service, pressures mount for a claim for such a clear failure. Yet, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, who oversees the Secret Service, ignored questions from CNN's Kate Bolduan on the topic, deflecting the blame entirely. 

As Bolduan asked basic questions, Mayorkas deflected, stating ten times that there would be an independent review of the situation. People deserve answers, but Mayorkas refused to accept any blame, even when asked directly by Bolduan:

BOLDUAN: I mean, it's been called by some lawmakers a security failure at the highest level, we now know, just this morning, we learned the Secret Service director in her first public comments said this, “The Secret Service is working with all involved federal, state, and local agencies to understand what happened, how it happened, and how we can prevent an incident like this from ever taking place again.” Secretary, do you call this a security failure on the part of the Secret Service?

MAYORKAS: An incident like this cannot happen. That is precisely why President Biden directed an independent review. So that that review, its conclusions and its recommendations have the full confidence of the American public. We will — uh — uh — carefully analyze in an independent and thorough fashion what occurred, recommendations will be made. Those recommendations will be implemented. We are in a dynamic threat environment. We adapt to that dynamism every single day. Changes have been made to the Republican National Convention just as the 18-month planning calls for. It calls for changes based on changes in the threat environment. And that is where we are now.

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