Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle took responsibility Monday for security failures that led to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump but sidestepped several major questions in testimony before a visibly frustrated House oversight committee.
In her opening remarks, Cheatle called the shooting the “most significant operational failure of the Secret Service in decades.” She said she was determined to learn what went wrong at Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, when a gunman opened fire from the roof of a nearby building, striking Trump in the ear, killing one rallygoer and wounding another.
Cheatle, who was subpoenaed to testify, was skewered by committee members from both parties, who told her she should resign over her “incompetence,” her “lame excuses,” and her lack of answers to what they called basic questions.
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