Cheatle

Adding to the controversy, Cheatle, who reportedly secured her position with the support of First Lady Jill Biden and her aide Anthony Bernal, shortly after an unrelated security breach.

Burchett was referring to US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle's prior position as head of security at PepsiCo before her appointment in 2022.

Cheatle called the Pennsylvania attempt on Trump’s life the Secret Service’s “most significant operational failure” in decades, but she angered lawmakers by failing to answer specific questions about the investigation.

Cheatle said her agency is working with the FBI and doing its own review.

Cheatle said on Monday the assassination attempt was "unacceptable" and that her agency will perform a review to ensure Secret Service personnel are given necessary resources to fulfil their duty.

Cheatle said she is in communications with RNC officials but sidestepped direct questions about their safety concerns.

Cheatle says the roof where a 20-year-old opened fire at Trump's Pennsylvania rally was identified as a potential vulnerability days before.

Cheatle so far retains the support of Democratic President Joe Biden and Mayorkas.

Cheatle was grilled by House members at a contentious hearing over the blunders that allowed a 20-year-old gunman to scale a roof and open fire with his father’s AR-15 assault-style rifle.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday he was ready to call on Joe Biden to fire Ms Cheatle as her office said she would not step down amid growing pressure to resign following the shooting.

I am the director of the Secret Service, and I need to make sure that we are performing a review and that we are giving resources to our personnel as necessary,” Cheatle told ABC News.

In a staggering moment, Cheatle admitted on Monday her agents on the ground were warned between two and five times that there was a 'suspicious person' reported before Trump took the stage.

Johnson said Cheatle’s resignation was “overdue,” but that there still “may be others in the line of authority” who were also at fault.

Kimberly A. Cheatle has served as the 27th Director of the U.S. Secret Service since September 17, 2022.

KIMBERLY Cheatle, Director of the US Secret Service, has stepped down after calls for her resignation began to grow following the recent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

Kimberly Cheatle, resigned as director of the agency a day after testifying before lawmakers about the July assassination attempt.

Mr. Biden — in whose detail Ms. Cheatle served when he was vice president — told on Monday that he feels "safe with the Secret Service," though he agreed it was an "open question" whether they should have anticipated the shooting.

NEW: Kimberly Cheatle, former Secret Service director wanted to destroy the cocaine discovered in the White House last year, according to RealClearPolitics.

Secret Service Director Kimberly A. Cheatle will testify before the House Oversight Committee on Monday.

Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, added his name to the list of lawmakers calling for Cheatle to step down.