Pennsylvania congressman says ‘evidence coming to light has shown unacceptable operational failures’
The Pennsylvania congressman Brendan Boyle has become the first Democrat to call for the director of the US Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, to resign as more security lapses that may have contributed to thereported on Saturday that the presidential protection agency had for two years denied Trump requests for additional security, Boyle said he had “no confidence” in the Secret Service leadership.
“No, ma’am – that is not your top priority,” Johnson told CNN. “We want the most capable officers regardless of gender. Their job is protection, not diversity. That was a frustrating thing for people to see in the light of the lapses that took place apparently last weekend. Boyle was the first elected Democrat to call for Cheatle’s resignation. The Secret Service director, a Biden White House appointee, was confronted by Republican senators at their party’s recent national convention demanding she step down, but she has said through her office that she has no plans to do so.
It was also reported that top officials repeatedly rejected requests from Trump’s security detail for more manpower and equipment for two years before the assassination attempt. Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi had denied that the agency had rejected Trump’s requests for additional security. But on Saturday, he said that new information had come to light.
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