Author Rips Secret Service Chief For Playing DEI ‘Game’ While Trump Almost Has His ‘Head Blown Off’

Author Douglas Murray condemned Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Thursday, accusing her of prioritizing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives over the agency’s responsibility to protect former President Donald Trump.

“It just sickens me to see these things, the smugness, the stupid lack of questioning of the premises of this – what does it matter what the DEI quota is if you almost had a former president assassinated on live television in front of millions,” Murray told Sky News Australia host Danica De Giorgio.

Trump survived an attempted assassination by Thomas Matthew Crooks at a Butler, Pennsylvania rally on July 13.

Not only did the 20-year-old gunman manage to get within rifle range of Trump, but law enforcement reportedly identified him as a suspicious person roughly an hour before he began firing. Cheatle said the “sloped” nature of the roof Crooks fired from made securing it difficult and potentially unsafe for the security agents.

Murray condemned officials who allowed DEI policies to undermine national security.

“Anyone who played these stupid, infantile games on these matters of life and death, and not just matters of life and death of one man, but of the Republic, really should be nowhere near power,” Murray said. “They should be as far away and as unemployed as it’s possible for anyone to be. They’re a danger.”