US Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle has resigned after accepting responsibility for her agency’s failure to prevent an assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
The decision by Cheatle comes a day after she faced the wrath of lawmakers for repeatedly refusing to provide Congress with additional details on the security lapses that occurred ahead of the shooting, which injured the Republican presidential nominee and killed a spectator.
In testimony on Capitol Hill on Monday, Cheatle said the event in Pennsylvania was a result of the “most significant operational failure at the Secret Service in decades”, but maintained that she was unable to provide more insight until internal investigations were concluded. She subsequently faced bipartisan calls for her immediate resignation.