Texas Republican Rep. Pat Fallon came to a hearing of the House Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump on Thursday ready to accuse the head of the Secret Service of interfering with the protection of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for a photo opportunity that would help his career.
The resulting exchange between Fallon and Acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr. added an unexpectedly heated punctuation mark on the final day of public action for a panel that has focused on overhauls of Secret Service and its protection protocols.
Fallon brought a poster board with a screen capture from C-SPAN footage of this year’s ceremony to mark the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack in New York City. It was centered on Biden and Harris, with Rowe’s face circled right behind them among a crowd of other dignitaries in attendance.