On Monday, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) called for the resignation of U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle after the near assassination of former President Donald Trump, saying she had misled the committee by claiming Trump’s team had not requested additional security prior to the assassination attempt.
Cheatle is set to testify before the committee on Monday. She is expected to say, “The Secret Service’s solemn mission is to protect our nation’s leaders. On July 13th, we failed. As the director of the United States Secret Service, I take full responsibility for any security lapse,” The Washington Post reported, adding that she will add, “We must learn what happened, and I will move heaven and earth to ensure an incident like July 13th does not happen again. Thinking about what we should have done differently is never far…
