Joe Biden’s Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has resigned in disgrace following sharp criticism over the agency’s failure to prevent an assassination attempt on President Trump.
Her resignation comes one day after her evasive testimony before Congress and 10 days after President Trump was shot on stage at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Cheatle faced bipartisan calls to step down following the catastrophic failures of the Secret Service to protect a former, and likely future, President of the United States.
Do you know how badly you have to f*ck up to have a bipartisan letter calling for your immediate resignation? Kimberly Cheatle should resign from the Secret Service today. pic.twitter.com/OnubDaWvxl
— Erik (@soderstrom) July 22, 2024
ABC News reported:
U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who came under scrutiny for the agency’s failure to prevent the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, has resigned, according to two sources familiar with the decision.
Cheatle had faced calls to step down since the shooting at a Trump rally on July 13, which left one attendee dead and two others critically injured.
In an interview with ABC News after the attack, Cheatle called the incident “unacceptable” and said it was her responsibility to ensure nothing like it will happen again.
“The buck stops with me,” she said. “I am the director of the Secret Service, and I need to make sure that we are performing a review and that we are giving resources to our personnel as necessary.”
