U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned Tuesday amid national outrage over her agency’s failure to stop the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
“I take full responsibility for the security lapse,” Cheatle wrote in an email to staff Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. “In light of recent events, it is with a heavy heart that I have made the difficult decision to step down as your director.”
The news of her departure comes the day after Cheatle appeared before a congressional committee where she described the attempt on Trump’s life at a rally in Pennsylvania “the most significant operational failure of the Secret Service in decades” for which she accepted “full responsibility.”
