Marsha Blackburn joined Matt Schlapp on America Uncanceled to reveal further details from the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt. She learned from a Secret Service briefing with Senators that at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally, the Secret Service knew of the shooter, notified the sniper team, and elevated him to a threat but still allowed President Trump to go on stage at 6:00 without neutralizing the shooter beforehand. This still has left a lot of questions that the Secret Service is refusing to answer. In fact, the briefing with Senators was cut short and multiple Senators, including Blackburn, were prevented from asking their questions. Director Cheatle continued to side-step questions at the RNC when she chose to throw a cocktail party over meeting with Blackburn and another Senator. “There are two assassination attempts in a two month period of time, and we know more about what happened in Florida than we know about Butler, Pennsylvania, and when I went after Director Cheatle at the convention, it was out of frustration,” recalled Blackburn. “I was taken aback that she was [at the RNC] but she was hosting a cocktail party, that she had time for that, but she didn’t have time to meet with Senators.” Blackburn is also involved in the fight to protect women’s sports from biological men and children from the highly sexualized and violent, but unregulated, spaces of social media. Blackburn is working on legislation as well as meeting with the NCAA to shirk the Biden-Harris administration’s new Title IX that requires that biological men identifying as women be allowed to participate in women’s sports and have access to female only facilities. Additionally, she is working on the Kids Online Safety Act that would protect minors in the online space and hold social media platforms to safety standards similar to ones applied to television programs and movies. “There are laws in the physical world. You cannot sell alcohol, tobacco, firearms to a minor child. You cannot expose a minor child to pornography, take them to a strip club, or take them to a casino. We as a society have decided there are things kids can’t do. They can’t drive a car until they’re sixteen. They can’t vote until they’re eighteen, but in the virtual space, they are exposed to all of these harms 24/7 365. There is nothing to protect them,” she said. Watch Blackburn’s full conversation with Matt Schlapp on these top issues on CPAC+.
