U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned Tuesday in the wake of mounting pressure following the assassination attempt on former President Trump, Fox News confirmed. Fox News reviewed the letter Cheatle sent to the U.S. Secret Service Tuesday morning, just a day after she taking bipartisan heat during testimony before the House Oversight Committee Monday and over a week after a would-be assassin Thomas Crooks attempted to take the life of Trump at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. “To the Men and Women of the U.S. Secret Service, The Secret Service’s solemn mission is to protect our nation’s leaders and financial infrastructure,“ Cheatle wrote in a letter to the agency. “On July 13th, we fell short on that mission.“ Biden, who did not fire Cheatle in the 10 days since the shooting, said he is “grateful to Director Kim Cheatle for her decades of public service,“ and that he will appoint a new director soon. “As a leader, it
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