Secret Service boss Kimberly Cheatle says ‘the buck stops with me,’ calls Trump rally shooting response ‘unacceptable,’ but still won’t resign
Kimberly Cheatle, the under-fire director of the Secret Service, has acknowledged that “I take responsibility” for criticism of the agency’s disastrous response to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, but has refused to resign. “This is unacceptable,” Cheatle told ABC News on Monday about the agency’s response to Saturday’s Trump campaign rally in […]
‘Buck Stops With Me’: Secret Service Director Refuses To Quit After Slamming Assassination Attempt As ‘Unacceptable’
US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said in an interview with ABC on Monday that she has no plans to resign and called the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump “unacceptable.” Cheatle spoke to ABC News’ Supreme Court correspondent Pierre Thomas in his first interview since Saturday’s attack on the Pennsylvania rally, which has […]
‘Buck Stops with Me,’ But ‘I Do Plan to Stay on’
In a segment of an ABC News interview that aired on “World News Tonight” on Monday, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, a 2024 Republican presidential candidate, “should never have happened” and that “I take responsibility,” but that she intends to remain in her position. “This is […]