Bill Maher tells Pete Buttigieg it seems Biden 'doesn't have time' to investigate Trump shooting as STILL no one has been sacked

Bill Maher has told Pete Buttigieg it seems Joe Biden 'doesn't have time' to investigate the Trump assassination attempt - as still no-one has been fired. 

Maher questioned the Transportation Secretary about the Secret Service failings which allowed 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks to take aim at the former president during a pre-planned Pennsylvania rally.

It comes as Biden faces calls to fire Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle, who is yet to step down. 

'Should Joe Biden have fired the Secret Service head?' Maher asked Buttigieg on his Friday HBO show Real Time. 'I mean, I don't understand that.' 

'I'm not in on all the details of the Homeland Security side,' Buttigieg said. 'I know there's a really serious after-action report and process and a whole lot of scrutiny going on there.'

Maher questioned the Transportation Secretary about the Secret Service failings which allowed 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks to take aim at the former president during a pre-planned Pennsylvania rally

'I think, you know, everything that led up to that moment, that horrible moment is under a microscope,' he added. 'And I believe that President Biden and the administration will do the right thing.'

But Maher pushed back. 'Well, you didn't need a microscope to see it,' the host said. 'The guy was on the roof, you know, like like not that far away.'

'I've seen people fired for less, and it just looks bad,' he aid. 'It looks like, 'Well, the other guy from the other party got shot. Well, we'll look into it if we have time.''

Security service officials had would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks on their radar for more than 40 minutes before he shot Donald Trump.

A photograph showing the  gunman appearing to crawl on the ground while scouring the area was circulated to law enforcement as a suspicious sighting at 5:30pm during the Butler, Pennsylvania rally on July 14, according to WPXI. 

Around 6.11pm, Crooks took up a position on a slanted warehouse roof and shot at Trump from a distance of around 165 yards, wounding him in the ear and killing retired fire chief Corey Comperatore. 

Two more images also showed a bicycle owned by Crooks which was recovered close to the scene, and a remote detonator which was recovered from his dead body alongside his cellphone. 

It was later revealed that the detonator was connected to explosives found in his car.  

The gunman was also acting strangely around the metal detectors that attendees were forced to walk through before entering the event grounds. Witnesses said that Crooks was furiously checking his phone and operating a hunting range finder.

Bill Maher has told Pete Buttigieg it seems Joe Biden 'doesn't have time' to investigate the Trump assassination attempt - as still no-one has been fired

Security service officials had would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks on their radar for more than 40 minutes before he shot Donald Trump

He attempted entry around this point but set the detector off and was refused, sources said. 

Crooks used an AR-style rifle, which authorities said they believe was purchased by his father. 

The roof where Crooks lay was less than 150 meters (164 yards) from where Trump was speaking, a distance from which a decent marksman could reasonably hit a human-sized target. 

That is a distance at which U.S. Army recruits must hit a scaled human-sized silhouette to qualify with the M-16 rifle. 

Alongside the explosives in his car, investigators also recovered a bullet proof vest and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, which had been purchased, alongside a ladder, on the same day as the shooting. 

The litany of revelations brought more questions to the fore about the Secret Service handling of the event - after embattled boss Kimberley Cheatle bizarrely said officials considered the roof to be too risky a position to station an agent.