Secret Service director steps down after assassination attempt against ex-President Trump at rally.
Secret Service director steps down after assassination attempt against ex-President Trump at rally.
Kimberly Cheatle has served as Secret Service director since August 2022
I mean, when you are director, it's only fair that your head is on the line if there is a major fuck up. I'm sure she made plenty of money and will turn around some cush job.
We were a cow farting a county over from the entire future of US history changing forever. Doesn't suprise me that politicians who rely on the secret service lost faith in her ability to keep them safe
The committee absolutely demolished her during a hearing. Mostly because she kept trying to throw her weight around and wouldn't answer questions with straight answers. She also claimed, as the damn Director, to not have access to certain bits of knowledge the committee was able to obtain with minimal effort, from reports made by the Secret Service.
So yeah. Take what you will from that.
On a long enough time scale, every cow farts changes US history forever. With each flatulence, thousands of empires fall.
Why can’t we hold CEOs to the same standard?
Right. Like that clown running Crowdstrike, who failed up after a stint at McAfee. There have been two global IT catastrophes on his watch (one at each of those companies), and somehow he keeps getting put in better positions to start the next one.
That idiot needs to never be allowed to work in an industry that uses computers ever again.
Also make the metaphorical rolling heads, real !
Oh man, and it was right after she said she definitely wouldn’t. There’s a lot of that going around.
Isn't that the reaction to her resigning?
Came here to say this. I wonder who’s next.
I hope Biden appoints a new director who does even less for Trump.
Stormy Daniels your time has come.
Her interview with congress was painful to watch. It is a mystery how she even got the job based on her answers
Yeah, which is kind of surprising if you look at her Wikipedia, she had plenty of experience within the secret service. I guess this is just a case of being promoted beyond your competence level, as I assume there's a huge difference between doing the work as a secret service agent and being able to properly deal with the politics of Congress.
And I guess she's ultimately responsible for whatever oversight caused them to allow someone with a rifle to get onto a roof 100m from a presidential candidate, whether that's due to hiring, procedural issues or just general lack of oversight.
To me, the local PD seems to have plenty of fault. (Surprised she didn't throw them under the bus.) The shooter's on top of a building, outside of SS perimeter. And incredibly, it's literally full of local PD, apparently emergency response (SWAT).
There seems to have been severe communication issues from all involved: Knew of suspect for hour, lost him, searched, finally checked roof, too late. SS sniper seems to have had him in sights, but did not shoot until after (perhaps thought he could be local PD). They all deserve blame for the almost comedy of errors. I think the wind might've done more to prevent the assassination.
Meh.
If this were Tesla she'd not only not resign but be given a huge pay increase.
I asked this earlier, but do we have any idea if this was gross incompetence, gross cowardice, or they wanted it to happen? How do you note that the gunman is on the roof for 20 minutes, have another officer from local PD back down when he has a gun pointed at him and still they do nothing
Normal people usually hesitate to kill. Is only a tiny mentally and morally abhorrent minority that would have resorted to violence fast enough to stop this. And we already have way too many of these monstrous hair trigger psychopaths running around already. A couple dead presidents is a small price to pay not to incentivize such psychotic behaviour.