Ranking member of the House Oversight Committee Jamie Raskin (D-MD) joined Chairman James Comer (R-KY) in a letter calling for Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign.
“On July 13, 2024, the United States Secret Service under your leadership failed to protect former President Donald Trump from an assassination attempt that took the life of Corey Comperatore and seriously injured at least two other people,” the letter says.
The letter asserts that Cheatle “failed to provide answers to basic questions regarding that stunning operational failure and to reassure the American people that the Secret Service has learned its lessons and begun to correct its systemic blunders and failures.”
“In the middle of a presidential election, the Committee and the American people demand serious institutional accountability and transparency that you are not providing,” the congressional members wrote. “We call on you to resign as Director as a first step to allowing new leadership to swiftly address this crisis and rebuild the trust of a truly concerned Congress and the American people.”
During the hearing, Raskin stated, “I don’t want to add to the director’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day, but I will be joining the chairman in calling for the resignation of the director just because I think that this relationship is irretrievable at this point.”
“I think 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 very quickly move beyond this,” he said.
