Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said she will not be stepping down from her role in the wake of the attempted assassination of former President Trump.
Cheatle has been thrust into the national spotlight in recent days after a gunman opened fire at a Trump rally on Saturday, grazing the former president’s ear, killing a rally attendee and injuring two others.
The Secret Service has faced scrutiny over the incident as questions swirl over how the gunman was able to get close enough to take a shot at Trump during the rally in Butler, Pa.
Some critics and lawmakers have suggested that Cheatle should resign or be fired over the shooting. ABC’s Pierre Thomas noted that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said he has “100 percent” confidence in the Secret Service following the shooting.
“I appreciate the secretary’s comments.
And we are going to continue to be transparent and communicate with people,” she responded.
When asked if she plans to step down following the incident, she said she does not.
“I do plan to stay on,” she told Thomas in the interview that aired Monday on ABC News’s “World News Tonight.”
She also said her first reaction to the shooting was “shock and concern” for the former president, adding that the shooting “should have never happened.” She reiterated to Thomas that the shooting was “unacceptable” and “it’s something that shouldn’t happen again.”
She also said it is her responsibility to look into the incident.
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Fun Fact:
James Joseph Rowley was the Director of the Secret Service under Kennedy.
He never resigned, ran the agency till Nixon.
After the assassination they changed the training for all service members.
The James J. Rowley Training Center in Beltsville, Maryland is named after him.
Didn’t she also delete the SS messages regarding the Jan 6 pipe bomb that STILL not enough people talk about??
We need to have oversight and accountability over every government position. No more pensions and guaranteed job security. The grift game has to end or America ends. It's as simple as that.
That's because DC -- like corporate media -- is a 100% accountability-free zone:
The USSS should be treating this as if the attempt had succeeded.
The degree of failure is essentially the same.
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