Secret service admits “failures”

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The newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, July 23, 2024, p. 25

Washington. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said yesterday that the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump was the most significant operational failure agency in decades during a hearing before the House Oversight Committee. Cheatle took responsibility for the mistakes at Trump’s Pennsylvania rally, and vowed to make sure they weren’t repeated. It’s Cheatle’s first appearance before lawmakers since the July 13 shooting that left one spectator dead. Trump was wounded in the ear and two other attendees were injured after Thomas Matthew Crooks fired from a nearby building before being shot dead.