Eric Trump says his ‘four-year-old daughter’ could have walked up ‘sloped’ roof where gunman opened fire on Donald and says Secret Service meant ‘my father almost lost his head’

Eric Trump has criticized controversial Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle over the failed assassination attempt on his father.

Cheatle claims there was no officer on the roof where gunman Thomas Michael Crooks opened fire because the roof was sloped and there was “a safety factor that had to be observed.”

She must now resign over the massive security breach that allowed criminals to scale a building just 130 metres from where the former president was addressing thousands of fans.

A bullet pierced Trump’s ear and retired Fire Chief Corey Comperatore was killed in the crowd as Crooks carried out a massacre in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.

“My father almost lost his head over that incompetence,” Eric Trump said Fox news at the Republican convention on Tuesday night.

“My 4-year-old daughter could have walked right onto the roof. It’s infuriating, it’s an act of God that he survived.”

Eric previously said he was watching his father’s rally with his children when the horror story unfolded at 6:11 p.m. Saturday night.

He then called the former president while he was in the hospital for observation.

Since then, the Secret Service has been keeping a close eye on things, and on Tuesday, Cheatle suggested that no one was on the roof because Trump was not clearly visible there, for security reasons.

Cheatle admitted that officials handling security for Trump’s rally considered the warehouse, 440 feet (135 meters) from where Trump spoke, a risky position to station an agent.

New, chilling details have revealed that a team of local police snipers was inside the building when the 20-year-old Crooks opened fire, shooting Trump in the ear and killing a member of the protest crowd.

Eric Trump hugs his father in the private box of the Republican convention, three days after the failed assassination attempt

Secret Service official Kimberly Cheatle has come forward in her first interview since the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, and she says a sloped roof is the reason the building is secured from the inside.

Cheatle is facing calls to resign over the massive security failure that allowed criminals to scale a building just 140 metres from where the former president addressed thousands of fans

The crooks managed to evade police and the Secret Service three times, despite him being considered a “suspicious” person and possibly having been on the roof for 30 minutes before pulling the trigger.

Witnesses also pleaded with police to intervene when they saw him climb onto the roof with his AR rifle, but the lack of security allowed him to carry out his attempt to end the 45th president’s life.

The mistakes that nearly killed Trump led to calls for Cheatle to resign, but she has refused and has now offered a baffling explanation for why no one was on the roof who could clearly see Trump.

Former FBI agent Kenneth Gray told DailyMail.com on Monday that the Secret Service “really made a mistake” at Saturday’s meeting and that efforts to hire more women for field positions may have played a role.

The crowd cheers as Trump raises his fist next to his son Eric and his running mate JD Vance

Republican officials gathering in Milwaukee called for tighter scrutiny of the agency as the federal government implements stricter security measures for Trump and others protected.

“Somebody, somewhere, really needs to answer a lot of serious questions,” Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota, a member of the House Judiciary and Armaments Committee, told DailyMail.com.

Cheatle’s decision to avoid questions so far has also been surprising. She did not attend the first FBI-led news conference.

The investigation launched by President Joe Biden after the incident is being led by the Justice Department, not Homeland Security, which oversees the Secret Service.

Police snipers return fire after shots were fired while Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump spoke at a campaign rally

“That speaks volumes,” Jason Chaffetz, former chairman of the House Oversight Committee, told DailyMail.com.

President Biden was asked by NBC on Monday whether he has confidence in the Secret Service.

“I feel safe with the Secret Service. But look … what we did see was the Secret Service responding by risking their lives. They were willing to lay down their lives for the president. The question is, should they have anticipated what was happening? Should they have done what they had to do to prevent this from happening? That’s the question that’s open.”

He did not immediately respond when NBC’s Lester Holt asked him whether the agency was dealing with a “massive security lapse.”