BREAKING: Donald Trump reacts to Secret Service Director Cheatle resigning after almost losing life

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 takes honor, courage, and incredible integrity to take full responsibility for an organization tasked with one of the most challenging jobs in public service," Biden said. "We all know what happened that day can never happen again. As we move forward, I wish Kim all the best."

Cheatle said, though, that the "incident does not define us."

"We remain an organization based on integrity and staffed by individuals of exceptional dedication and talent," she wrote, adding that the agency "will move forward with our investigatory and protective mission in a steadfast manner."

"We do not retreat from challenge," she wrote. "However, I do not want my calls for resignation to be a distraction from the great work each and every one of you do towards our vital mission."

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[adrianwalker]

Let's not forget: due to her incompetence one man died, two were seriously hurt and President Trump just escaped by the grace of God.

[bobbycakes]

her pension should go to the family that lost their father, husband. A Hero!!!!

[dandowney]

We are praying for ALL of the corruption in this nation to be exposed

[judydavis]

Resigned, she should have been fired!!! More to follow her!!!

[terriegentry]

So glad she is gone! Congress did a great job yesterday, pointing out her failures. She had no rebuttal to anything they said. Pathetic! Praying those left to drill down, get to the truth of what happened on July 13th!!

[Coldone]

This was gross criminal negligence on her part, She should be Charged and prosecuted!

[wizcorn]

Imagine how frustrated the poor lady who lost her husband must be…..an unnecessary death due to incompetence 🙄

[zimboiant]

Failure to fire this woman is a failure. A mere resignation seems a serious negligence on the part of the Congress.

[JeffKlukas-bmzi]

I would be checking her bank accounts in a couple months. Democratic appointee's just don't resign for no reason. She did it to take the heat off the people behind the attempt. Also; how come we aren't hearing anymore about those 3 overseas bank accounts from the assassin? I hope they don't drop all this now just because she resigned.

[kevinwashington]

She should have been arrested for not knowing and not giving up information

[oldNavyJZ]

They denied his request due to politics. That's just plain wrong.

[melindaroth]

She resigned to keep her pension. Disgusting 😮

[claudiawilliams]

Now get the people above her that helped create this disaster and loss of life.

[Kristian]

She should not be allowed to resign. She should be forced to appear to all hearings, go under lie dectector testing and to tell the truth! All while being watched with a no fly order in place and then thrown in jail with no special security detail.

[JustDiane]

She couldn't answer simple questions since the "leaders" haven't finished the script to tell her what to say.

[fluffy]

RESIGNING WITH PAY IS NOT A PUNISHMENT

[uriurg]

This was deliberate “security failure” for one reason only….and we know that reason!!!🤮🤮🤮🤮

[nancyadwani]

There should be charges filed against her

[thatampguy]

Doesn’t matter. The people who funded and planned this are still out there.

[lawrenceshea]

Her resignation. doesn't let her off the hook, as a scape-goat for what happened to Former Pres. Trump. Only makes things now look like a real cover up. 😐