Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, told Newsmax the American public has lost confidence in the executive branch because “they’re not telling the truth” in the wake of an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

“They’re hiding stuff,” Pfluger, chair of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence, said Saturday on “America Right Now.”

“It’s exactly why [former Secret Service Director] Kimberly Cheatle received multiple calls to resign, because all she had to say was, ‘We messed up. It was a failure. We don’t know exactly what happened, but we’re going to get to the bottom of it and we will tell you exactly what happened.’ That has not happened,” he said.

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