Trump Criticizes Biden After Resignation of the Secret Service Director
Former Director of the U.S. Secret Service Kimberly Cheatle, 2024. Photo: X/ @BRICSinfo
July 23, 2024 Hour: 12:01 pm
Kimberly Cheatle left office 10 days after the assassination attempt on the former U.S. president.
On Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stated that the administration of President Joe Biden did not protect him as it was supposed to.
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“The Biden/Harris Administration did not protect me adequately, and I was forced to take a bullet for democracy. It was a great honor to do so,” he said through his Truth Social network.
His statements came after the resignation of U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who left her position 10 days after the attempted assassination of Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
She was under enormous political pressure after admitting that the assassination attempt on the former president was the “greatest operational failure” of the agency in decades.
Cheatle took “full responsibility” for her agency’s security lapse and assured that she is cooperating with ongoing investigations into the attack.
Previously, Republicans had called for Cheatle’s resignation, as her agency was directly in charge of Trump’s security during his presidency from 2017 to 2021.
The conservative politician was shot in the ear by an amateur shooter who had climbed onto a roof about 140 meters from the former president.
Autor: teleSUR/ English
Fuente: EFE
