{"id":5710,"date":"2024-07-22T22:28:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T16:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=5710"},"modified":"2024-07-22T22:28:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T16:43:04","slug":"us-secret-service-failed-in-mission-to-protect-trump-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/us-secret-service-failed-in-mission-to-protect-trump-director\/","title":{"rendered":"US Secret Service ‘failed’ in mission to protect Trump: director"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle acknowledged on Monday that the agency “failed” in its mission to prevent the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

“The Secret Service’s solemn mission is to protect our nation’s leaders,” Cheatle said during testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.<\/p>\n

“On July 13, we failed,” she said. “As director of the United States Secret Service, I take full responsibility for any security lapse.”<\/p>\n

Cheatle, who is facing bipartisan calls to resign, said the assassination attempt on Trump, who was slightly wounded in the ear while speaking at a campaign rally, was “the most significant operational failure of the Secret Service in decades.”<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, opened fire on Trump with an AR-style rifle just minutes after the former Republican president and current White House candidate began speaking at the campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

Crooks was shot dead by a Secret Service sniper 26 seconds after firing the first of eight shots.<\/p>\n

Investigators have determined that Crooks, who lived in a town about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Butler, acted alone and have not been able to identify any strong ideological or political leanings.<\/p>\n

Two rally attendees were seriously wounded in the shooting and a 50-year-old firefighter, Corey Comperatore, of Freeport, Pennsylvania, was shot dead.<\/p>\n

Opening the hearing into the assassination bid, Republican committee chairman James Comer said “this tragedy was preventable” and “it is my firm belief, Director Cheadle, that you should resign.”<\/p>\n

“The Secret Service’s protective mission is to protect US and visiting world leaders and safeguard US elections through protection of candidates and nominees,” Comer said.<\/p>\n

“The Secret Service has a zero-fail mission, but it failed on July 13 and in the days leading up to the rally,” he said, adding the agency “has now become the face of incompetence.”<\/p>\n

– ‘Needs to fire you’ –
\nRepresentative Michael Turner, a Republican lawmaker from Ohio, also called on Cheatle to step down.<\/p>\n

“Not only should you resign but if you refuse to do so, President (Joe) Biden needs to fire you because his life, Donald Trump’s life, and all the other people who you protect are at risk,” Turner said.<\/p>\n

Trump’s former physician said over the weekend that the Republican candidate sustained a two-centimeter (almost one inch) gunshot wound on his right ear that is starting to heal.<\/p>\n

The memo from ex-White House physician Ronny Jackson, now a hardline right-wing lawmaker from Texas, is the first detailed account of the injury Trump sustained.<\/p>\n

“The bullet passed, coming less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head, and struck the top of his right ear,” wrote Jackson, who said he flew to see Trump in New Jersey late in the evening of the rally, and had been treating him since.<\/p>\n

Cheatle served as a Secret Service agent for 27 years before leaving in 2021 to become the head of security in North America for PepsiCo.<\/p>\n

She was named to head the agency by Biden in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle acknowledged on Monday that the agency “failed” in its mission to prevent the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump. “The Secret Service’s solemn mission is to protect our nation’s leaders,” Cheatle said during testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. “On July 13, we failed,” she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5712,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710\/revisions\/5712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}