 You also received a letter from the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee that suggests your department may have, quote, rebuffed multiple requests from President Trump's security detail to increase protective resources. How do you respond to that? That is an unequivocally false assertion. Mayork is making the remarks to ABC News. Crooks' political leanings were hazy. He was a registered Republican, but federal campaign finance reports show he gave $15 to a progressive political action committee the day Democrat President Joe Biden was sworn into office.