Biden should fire the Secret Service director, but he won’t

Published July 16, 2024 2:11pm ET



If Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle will not resign over former President Donald Trump nearly being assassinated at a rally, President Joe Biden should fire her. The fact that he won’t shows there are no consequences for failure in the Biden administration.

Cheatle said after the attempt on Trump’s life that the security failure was “unacceptable,” “something that shouldn’t happen again,” and that “the buck stops with me.” Evidently, that last point is not something she truly believes, because she said she would not resign over the security failure that nearly left the former president and current leading presidential candidate dead on a rally stage.

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