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Secret Service director says agency 'failed' in its mission to protect Trump

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is expected to tell lawmakers on Monday that the agency “failed” to protect the president after former President Trump was injured during a campaign rally earlier this month. “The Secret Service’s solemn mission is to protect our nation’s leaders. On July 13th, we failed to fulfill that mission. As Director […]

Comer to urge Secret Service director to resign at Oversight hearing

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) will call for Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign when she appears before his committee on Monday for a hearing on the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump. Comer will say, according to excerpts of his prepared remarks obtained by the Washington Examiner, that it is his “firm belief” that Cheatle should […]

Janet Napolitano joining review of Secret Service response to Trump shooting

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday appointed one of his predecessors, Janet Napolitano, to serve on a bipartisan panel of experts conducting a 45-day independent investigation into the assassination attempt on former President Trump. The committee will also include two national security officials from the administration of former President George W. Bush, former Homeland […]

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle reacts to independent review of Trump assassination plot

Kimberly Cheatle, director of the U.S. Secret Service, has voiced support for an independent security investigation into a plot last week to assassinate former President Donald Trump. “We look forward to cooperating with the independent security investigation into the U.S. Secret Service’s actions in connection with the attempted assassination of former President Trump in Butler […]

Secret Service explanation continues to evolve one week after attempt on Trump

The Secret Service’s explanation for the security failings that allowed a 20-year-old gunman to shoot former President Trump multiple times continues to evolve, with the agency recently acknowledging that it had rejected some of the Trump campaign’s requests for additional security. The revelation, first reported by The Washington Post, that the Secret Service had refused […]