U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle plans to stay in her position, despite harsh criticism for her agency's detail surrounding a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle tells ABC News she plans to stay on despite growing calls for her resignation over the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on Saturday. In an exclusive interview, Cheatle condemned the shooting and said the 'buck stops with her.' She also said she has no plans to step down. 'It was obviously a situation that, as a Secret Service agent, no one ever wants to occur in their career,' Cheatle said.
Seeking that person out, finding them, identifying them, and eventually neutralizing them took place in a very short period of time, and it makes it very difficult,' she said. Cheatle has since taken a firm stance that she will not step down, despite being harshly criticized for a failed detail that allowed a gunman to have a clear line of sight of Trump with a rifle nearly 150 yards away. On Monday, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo.
Saturday’s assassination attempt on President Trump’s life was either intentional or the result of gross incompetence by the United States Secret Service,' Boebert said in a press release. 'Under Director Cheatle's failed leadership, the United States Secret Service has prioritized woke DEI policies over the core responsibilities of the Secret Service, including protecting our nation’s leaders.
former FBI special agent slammed Cheatle in the wake of the assassination attempt on former President Trump, warning the response has been 'unacceptable.' Fox News contributor Nicole Parker, who served as a special agent for the FBI, ripped Director Kimberly Cheatle for her handling of the attack on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. 'Where was she, or where was any representative from the United States Secret Service? The initial press conference… that is their site.
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