(AP) — The director of the Secret Service resigned Tuesday in the aftermath of the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump that unleashed an outcry about how the agency failed in its core mission to protect current and former presidents.
Kimberly Cheatle, who had served as Secret Service director since August 2022, faced growing calls to resign and several investigations into how a gunman was able to get so close to the Republican presidential nominee at an outdoor campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
“I take full responsibility for the security lapse,” she said in an email to staff obtained by The Associated Press. “In light of recent events, it is with a heavy heart that I have made the difficult decision to step down as your director.”
Cheatle’s departure was unlikely to end the scrutiny of the long-troubled agency after the failures of July 13, and it comes at a critical juncture ahead of the Democratic National Convention and a busy presidential campaign season. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have promised more investigations. An inspector general probe and an independent and bipartisan effort launched at President Joe Biden’s behest will keep the agency in the spotlight.
Cheatle’s resignation came a day after she appeared before a congressional committee and was berated for hours by both Democrats and Republicans for the security failures. She called the attempt on Trump’s life the Secret Service’s “most significant operational failure” in decades, but she angered lawmakers by failing to answer specific questions about the investigation.
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…and yet it seems that certain of you refuse to count your blessings living where you do and not in a fetid, openly corrupt stinkhole such as the u.s.
Politics and the unbelievable so called Christian in America.
Dr Martin Luther King a man who believed, trusted, honored, loved and shared the message of God to the world, was gunned down leaving his family behind.
Trump, who broke every commandment in the Bible and even more survived, now these so called Christian are calling him the Savior, son of God, an angel sent by God and must be the next President, while making Kings birthday a national holiday was a huge struggle back then.
What a world we live in.
@Carvaa – many news outlets here proselytize that trump was sent as gift from God and that the Hand of God saved trump saved him from an assassins bullet.
BTW, america is anything but a Christian nation.
Here, there, Christianity is a sham and the biggest money making business, plus we tend to copy everything America does. Hand of God save Trump, why didn’t the hand of God save his good servant King back then?
Here comes the theologians with all the feel good words and spins they learn in Uni.
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