Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was grilled by lawmakers Monday over the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump on July 13. Here are some key points to know from her testimony.
U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle appeared Monday before lawmakers expressing anger over security lapses that allowed an attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally.A 20-year-old gunman, later identified by investigators as Thomas Matthew Crooks, climbed atop the roof of a nearby building at Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and fired his weapon, according to authorities.
She said she was taking full responsibility and has already implemented changes ahead of the results of independent investigations, and said nothing she's said in recent days should be taken as passing blame to the other federal, state or local partners that were on site that day. Democratic President Joe Biden appointed Cheatle in August 2022 to take over an agency with a history of scandals, and she worked to bolster diverse hiring, especially of women in the male-dominated service.
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