Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned Tuesday after her agency catastrophically failed to prevent an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on July 13.
“In light of recent events, it is with a heavy heart that I have made the difficult decision to step down as your Director,” Cheatle reportedly wrote in an email to the Secret Service workforce.
On Monday, Cheatle stonewalled members of Congress during a House Oversight Committee hearing. Republican House Oversight Chairman James Comer and ranking Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin called on Cheatle to resign in a letterreleased yesterday. According to Comer and Raskin, Cheatle “failed” to provide answers to “basic questions” and she did not reassure the American people that the agency is capable of correcting “its systemic blunders and failures.”
President Joe Biden, who appointed Cheatle, wrote that he and Jill Biden are “grateful to Director Kim Cheatle for her decades of public service.” The president also applaud the failed former Secret Service director, writing, “As a leader, it takes honor, courage, and incredible integrity to take full responsibility for an organization tasked with one of the most challenging jobs in public service.”
It’s unclear whether the message really came from Biden. The president has not been seen in person since last Wednesday — before he dropped out of the 2024 presidential campaign via a post on X.
Many have been quick to point out that Cheatle’s resignation cannot be the end of the investigation into that assassination attempt on Trump. “The cover up is happening in plain sight,” The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh wrote on X. “They sent Cheatle to the House hearing to stonewall and absorb the blame and then promptly pushed her out. They’re hoping that we stop asking question. (sic) They’re hoping we don’t notice that none of our questions have actually been answered.”
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