In the days following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, Cheatle has done no press conferences and very few interviews.
“We would have never let him go out there if we thought there was a threat to him,” one source present with Trump told CNN.
Cheatle is a nearly three-decade veteran of the Secret Service, serving in various field offices and vice presidential details including then-Vice President Joe Biden’s detail.
Cheatle left the Secret Service in 2021 as the Assistant Director of the Office of Protective Operations - a role she held when the Secret Service scrambled to protect then-Vice President Mike Pence from rioters on January 6, 2021.
“I’m very sorry to reach this conclusion: I have no confidence in the leadership of the United States Secret Service.
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