Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who came under scrutiny for the agency’s failure to prevent the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, has resigned.
She was criticized for failing to prevent the assassination attempt on Trump.
Wasn’t she just saying yesterday that she wouldn’t resign? That’s a quick reversal.
I don’t think this was a personal failing by her, this seems like Congress is making her the fall guy. A previous article I read said that the Secret Service had to refuse requests for security due to lack of funding for equipment and personnel.
Probably never. He’s well and truly fucked by his own doing and seems to be the kind of asshole who’ll break the toys because if he can’t have them nobody should.
A bunch of congresspeople wrote official letters calling for her resignation after the hearing yesterday.
I think we need more of upper management being held accountable when there major fuck ups. She might not have been directly responsible for the decisions on that specific day, but it happened on her watch. She’ll be fine and get a cush job at some security company.
And a petition to force a vote on an impeachment motion was filed which would have resulted in a floor vote in 48 hours. It definitely looked like she might be on an impeachment fast track.
Do not accept that as an excuse. I was watching an interview with a security expert/former sniper and he detailed numerous failures by the team that could not be explained away with budget issues. Only complacency and ignorance could explain them.
Yep. Firing people (like Trump so often does) isn’t the best solution for these kinds of things. Now they’ll probably have someone less qualified in charge thrown into the job.
She should get a promotion maybe? Some extra paid vacation time to sort it out and deal with all the extra stress? Several people are in here with this ridiculous take, I don’t get it.
She failed as the head of an extremely important high stakes organization. She no longer has the faith of those she reports to. Should have offered her resignation the day after it happened. That would have been at least been honorable, anything less is ridiculous.
Her organization failed. As the head of the organization her job is to accept the failure and resign. Doesn’t matter the exact reason, she needs to take the fall. Trump never should have been cleared to speak if his safety wasn’t guaranteed. And I fucking hate the guy, but the secret service fucked up, a whole bunch of them should probably be fired, top brass first. Absolutely absurd to imagine they should keep their job after this. Normal people get fired for undercooking chicken, missing a day of work or delivering a package to the wrong place, what are we protecting here?
Wasn’t she just saying yesterday that she wouldn’t resign? That’s a quick reversal.
I don’t think this was a personal failing by her, this seems like Congress is making her the fall guy. A previous article I read said that the Secret Service had to refuse requests for security due to lack of funding for equipment and personnel.
Not in any way unusual for D.C.
points at Biden stepping down from campaign
There are even recent examples! In politics you say “I’ll never resign” until you say “I’ve resigned”
Which makes me wonder, how long until Menendez resigns?
Probably never. He’s well and truly fucked by his own doing and seems to be the kind of asshole who’ll break the toys because if he can’t have them nobody should.
Well, I guess the answer was “minutes”, because he’s joined the club: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv2gjn8le2ro
That’s surprising but good to hear!
A bunch of congresspeople wrote official letters calling for her resignation after the hearing yesterday.
I think we need more of upper management being held accountable when there major fuck ups. She might not have been directly responsible for the decisions on that specific day, but it happened on her watch. She’ll be fine and get a cush job at some security company.
And a petition to force a vote on an impeachment motion was filed which would have resulted in a floor vote in 48 hours. It definitely looked like she might be on an impeachment fast track.
Do not accept that as an excuse. I was watching an interview with a security expert/former sniper and he detailed numerous failures by the team that could not be explained away with budget issues. Only complacency and ignorance could explain them.
Yep. Firing people (like Trump so often does) isn’t the best solution for these kinds of things. Now they’ll probably have someone less qualified in charge thrown into the job.
She should get a promotion maybe? Some extra paid vacation time to sort it out and deal with all the extra stress? Several people are in here with this ridiculous take, I don’t get it.
She failed as the head of an extremely important high stakes organization. She no longer has the faith of those she reports to. Should have offered her resignation the day after it happened. That would have been at least been honorable, anything less is ridiculous.
Does anyone know if Project 2025 directly or indirectly defunds the Secret Service as well?
It will now
Only funding for those that suck Donald’s toes
Her organization failed. As the head of the organization her job is to accept the failure and resign. Doesn’t matter the exact reason, she needs to take the fall. Trump never should have been cleared to speak if his safety wasn’t guaranteed. And I fucking hate the guy, but the secret service fucked up, a whole bunch of them should probably be fired, top brass first. Absolutely absurd to imagine they should keep their job after this. Normal people get fired for undercooking chicken, missing a day of work or delivering a package to the wrong place, what are we protecting here?
I bet Biden told her that if she didn’t resign, he would fire her. Right after his nap.