Raskin And Comer: Secret Service Head Must Resign

ABC News reports:

The United States Secret Service director told Congress on Monday that the attempted assassination against former President Donald Trump was the “most significant operational failure at the Secret Service in decades” and took full responsibility for the lapses in security that day.

She has faced calls from multiple Republicans and Democrats to resign after the former president was targeted at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Rep. John Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, told Cheatle in his opening statement that he is among those who believe she should resign.

By the end of the hearing, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md. and committee co-chair, joined in the calls for Cheatle to resign, saying that the director “has lost the confidence [of Congress] at a very urgent and tender moment in the history of the country and we need to quickly move beyond this.”

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House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin calls for Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle’s resignation: “I think that the director has lost the confidence of Congress at a very urgent and tender moment in the history of the country.” https://t.co/FcgdHWTVjV pic.twitter.com/4bP0ToNWXq

— ABC News (@ABC) July 22, 2024

Oversight Chairman James Comer and Ranking Member Jamie Raskin — who don’t agree on much at all — penned a joint letter to Secret Service Director Cheatle urging her to resign. pic.twitter.com/TeyviBZRA6

— Reese Gorman (@reesejgorman) July 22, 2024

Nancy Mace to the Secret Service Director:

“You’re full of shit today.”

Is this how a member of Congress conducts themselves at a committee hearing? pic.twitter.com/LUiz2QaX4t

— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) July 22, 2024