Grilled by both Republicans and Democrats, US Secret Service director resigns. Here's what happened

New Delhi: Kimberly Cheatle, director of the US Secret Service who has been under fire over the agencys failure to prevent an assassination attempt earlier this month on former president Donald Trump, resigned from her post Tuesday...

Trump, the Republican candidate for this years presidential polls in the US, was wounded on his ear after a 20-year-old gunman was able to fire at him from a rooftop overlooking his outdoor rally in Pennsylvania on 13 July...

Appearing before the committee, she refused to share any information on the number of Secret Service agents protecting Trump, or about who had made the decision to leave the rooftop where the shot was fired from outside of the rally security perimeter...

It is rare for a party to seek the resignation of their own appointee.. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, and a Republican lawmaker from Kentucky said during the hearing that while the committee is not known for bipartisanship, Cheatles hearing has seen unanimous disappointment from its members...

When a Democratic lawmaker on the committee asked Cheatle if she would fire any Secret Service agent found to have made mistakes that led to the incident, she said she did not have an answer, The New York Times reported...

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