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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Robert Tait

Secret Service chief Kimberly Cheatle quits after Trump assassination attempt

a woman looks ahead with her hands clasped
Kimberly Cheatle testifies during a House hearing in Washington DC on Monday. Photograph: Patsy Lynch/Rex/Shutterstock

The director of the US Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, has resigned just a day after a contentious House hearing where members of both parties called for her to quit her job in the wake of the assassination attempt against Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally.

Cheatle, who had served as Secret Service director since August 2022, had called the attempt on Trump’s life the Secret Service’s “most significant operational failure” in decades.

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