Trump assassination attempt ‘was biggest Secret Service failure in decades’

Trump assassination attempt ‘was biggest Secret Service failure in decades’
Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle (Charles Rex Arbogast/AP)

The director of the Secret Service says the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump was the agency’s “most significant operational failure” in decades.

Director Kimberly Cheatle told a congressional hearing: “On July 13, we failed.”

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