STORY: U.S. secret service director resigns following attempted assassination of Trump
SHOOTING TIME: July 13/July 22, 2024
DATELINE: July 24, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:01
LOCATION: Washington D.C.
CATEGORY: POLITICS

SHOTLIST:
1. U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle attending a hearing at the U.S. Capitol (July 22, 2024)
2. various of the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania (July 13, 2024)

STORYLINE:

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned on Tuesday after widespread outrage over the agency's failure to prevent the recent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month.

Cheatle's resignation came one day after she was grilled at a congressional hearing by lawmakers, who said she failed to answer basic questions and demanded that she step down immediately.

At the hearing held by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Cheatle acknowledged that it was "the most significant operational failure at the Secret Service in decades."

The committee issued a statement following the hearing. "Republican and Democrat members pressed U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle for answers on the egregious security lapses that led to the attempted assassination of (former) President Trump, the murder of an innocent victim, and harm to others in the crowd at the campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania," it said.

"Director Cheatle could not or refused to answer basic questions from Committee members, leading Republican and Democrat members to call for Director Cheatle's immediate resignation," the committee said.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Washington D.C.
(XHTV)