While most lawmakers used Monday’s congressional hearing featuring now-former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to try to determine what exactly happened to allow a would-be assassin to shoot former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally, one congressman twisted the hearing to push his anti-gun agenda.
Democrat U.S. Rep. Gerald Connelly of Virginia repeatedly tried to badger Cheatle into saying that if so-called “assault weapons” were banned it would make the agency’s job easier.
