MILWAUKEE — Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL), a member of the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, said that diversity box-checking was behind the Secret Service’s failures before the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump.

“It’s the DEI bulls***,” Cammack told reporters on Monday ahead of the Republican National Convention.

“I think what we’re seeing is what happens when you are more focused on checking boxes, then you are actually getting the most qualified people in the room,” she said.

“There is a lot of work and discussions that needs to be had about who are we hiring to protect presidential candidates,” the congresswoman said. “Donald Trump is six-foot-two. I’m five-foot-three. You wouldn’t want me protecting him. I cannot physically take a bullet for him at that height. And so when you have people who are just not physically capable of doing so, we have to have that conversation.”

She summarized the DEI approach as “we need so many of X, Y, and Z,” saying this approach “has really put us all collectively in danger and it’s a real shame.”

Cammack added: “I think that the agents on the ground with the president did the absolute very best that they could, and you saw that they were on him within seconds.”

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She reiterated: “I think there has to be a full top-down review of are we putting our best on our most hybrid, high-profile targets. And in this case, Donald Trump is our highest, most top-profile target.”

Cammack suggested her select committee would ask such questions as part of the oversight hearings.