Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is resigning from her post over the agency’s failures to properly protect former President Donald Trump from an attempted assassination.
Her resignation follows an hours-long hearing on Capitol Hill on Monday in which Cheatle testified before the House Oversight Committee in the wake of the July 13 (failed) assassination attempt on Trump.
Numerous lawmakers—from both sides of the aisle—had called for Cheatle to resign after a gunman fired multiple shots at Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, about 33 miles north of Pittsburgh. A former fire chief, Corey Comperatore, 50, died shielding his family from the gunfire, and two other rally attendees were injured.
Throughout the hearing, Cheatle angered lawmakers by refusing to divulge information, citing the ongoing investigation into the assassination…
