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Editor's Note: After becoming apparent that the Secret Service lied to the nation and elements of the agency were likely involved in the assassination attempt of President Trump, and a disastrous Congressional hearing, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is reported to have resigned.
Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle resigned Tuesday.
House Speaker Mike Johnson stated that it was “the right decision.”
It was far more than the right decision, it was inevitable that she would resign or more members of Congress would have demanded she be fired with further humiliation following her horrendous testimony before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill Monday, where she studiously and intentionally refused to answer questions even when she knew the answers.
Cheatle not only appeared unprepared Monday, she repeatedly stated, “I will have to get back to you on that.”
For reasons that seem too inexplicable, U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, the second woman to lead the agency, refused to answer even simple questions frustrating the committee members on both sides of the aisle.
Members of the House Oversight Committee castigated the director Monday over her agency's failure to prevent the attempted assassination of former President Trump that wounded the Republican presidential nominee, left one man dead, and two others seriously injured.
The congressional committee members were not only exasperated, but tempers flared. Many called for her resignation, and, if not, they wanted her fired, and before the hearing ended, one member called for an official review of her testimony for possible perjury charges.
She not only looked unprepared, she repeatedly said, “I will have to get back you on that” repeatedly noting an ongoing FBI investigation.
"It is my firm belief, Director Cheatle, that you should resign," House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY.) said at the outset of the hearing.
Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the top ranking democrat on the panel, called for her resignation, because Cheatle has "lost the confidence of Congress at a very urgent and tender moment in the history of the country."
"Director Cheatle, because Donald Trump is alive, and thank God he is, you look incompetent," said Congressman Mike Turner (R-OH). "If Donald Trump had been killed, you would have looked culpable."
Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) was so mad she cursed at Cheatle and told her she was "full of s**t" and "completely dishonest" for not giving a direct answer to a question about providing the committee materials they requested ahead of the hearing.
Congressman Tim Burchett (R) called Cheatle a "DEI horror story."
Cheatle told lawmakers that "no requests" were denied for the rally, although CDM earlier reported that the Trump campaign had requested more Secret Service detail which had been denied for months.
Cheatle did admit that Secret Service was informed "somewhere between two and five times" about a suspicious individual at the site of the Pennsylvania rally.
She admitted that she had spoken with the sniper who killed Crooks, but refused to disclose details of that conversation deflecting on the fact that there was an ongoing FBI investigation.
Unlike some members of Congress who had visited the rally site, Cheatle had not even though she attended the Republican National Convention.
"I just don't think this is partisan. If you have an assassination attempt on a president, a former president or a candidate, you need to resign," said Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA).
"I think that I am the best person to lead the Secret Service at this time."Cheatle told the committee Monday and when she said that the Secret Service's internal investigation would be completed in 60 days, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) emphatically slammed that timeline as "unacceptable."
Comer and Raskin issued a letter calling for Cheatle's resignation shortly after the Monday hearing ended.
In the letter, the two congressmen said Cheatle should resign to allow "new leadership to swiftly address this crisis and rebuild the trust of a truly concerned Congress and the American people."
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