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Secret Service director called on to resign: ‘Extreme unbelievable negligence or something much worse’

July 14, 2024 | | Print Article

Former President Donald J. Trump survived an assassination attempt but there are questions about what could have been the most consequential Secret Service failure in history.

On Saturday, the soon-to-be Republican party nominee was speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania when shots rang out, grazing Trump’s ear and striking and killing a rally attendee as a shooter opened fire from an elevated position on the roof of a manufacturing plant 130 yards from the stage.

It was an inexplicable failure for an agency that now finds itself in the crosshairs of an incident that came a hairsbreadth from being the first successful assassination of a presidential candidate since Democrat Robert F. Kennedy was killed in 1968.

“Secret service failed. Shooter was high ground, took way too long to get him out and he was exposed if there was a second shooter. That was an inch away from his assassination.” a former senior federal law enforcement source told Fox News.

“Source also points out that when Trump was placed in the car, they used the door facing the crowd – exposing him longer: ‘this was not a good, trained plan,'” according to Fox News Senior White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich.

The massive failure to provide security for Trump is being laid at the doorstep of Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle, a former security chief for PepsiCo who somehow was tapped for the important job of heading up the agency responsible for the protection of the president of the United States.

Among those calling for Cheatle’s resignation after the nearly catastrophic security failure was billionaire SpaceX/Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Mush who shared a video of an eyewitness who told a BBC reporter that he had seen the gunman and repeatedly tried to warn Secret Service but was ignored.

“The head of the Secret Service and the leader of this security detail should resign,” Musk wrote on Saturday after the failed assassination attempt.

Conservative commentator Dan Bongino who is a former Secret Service agent also called for Cheatle to resign.

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Bongino also noted that Cheatle has denied the Trump team’s request for added Secret Service protection, a necessity due to the swirling atmosphere of hatred that has been fomented by President Joe Biden, his fellow Democrats, and the media.

“Actively communicating with a number of former colleagues from the Secret Service about the assassination attempt. This is an obviously catastrophic failure and NO excuses should be made, or even attempted,” Bongino added in another post. “The failures are profound and questions must be answered about ground surveillance, air surveillance, post-stander support, and counter-sniper advance work and response. We have ONE job, and we came within inches of a deadly failure today. An uneventful failure is NOT a success.”

CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp went one step further, calling for a public investigation.

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At the very least, Cheatle will be asked some serious questions from Republicans in Congress.

Others are wondering if it’s merely incompetence or something much more nefarious.

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Fortunately for Trump, he didn’t fall victim to Secret Service dropping the ball, at least not this time.

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