Secret Service Director: 'I Will Not Resign'
Updated With New Information
Posted By: Dreadnought, 7/15/2024 10:54:24 PM
ABC got an exclusive interview with U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, which you have to admit was a good "get." What wasn't good at all was her responses to the questions swirling around the Secret Service's inability to prevent an assassin from taking a series of shots at a former president and current presidential candidate from a bit more than a football field away. As is so often the case in the Biden Administration, no level of failure results in accountability. "The buck stops with me" is the equivalent of a grunt, not a statement of responsibility. Cheatle mouths the words but refuses to step down
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