Secret Service chief Kimberly Cheatle quits after Trump assassination attempt
by Guardian staff and agencies from on (#6PDY6)
Cheatle steps down a day after House hearing where members of both parties called for her to quit
The director of the US Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, has resigned just a day after a contentious House hearing where members of both parties called for her to quit her job in the wake of the assassination attempt against Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally.
Cheatle, who had served as Secret Service director since August 2022, had called the attempt on Trump's life the Secret Service's most significant operational failure" in decades.
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