Secret Service failures due to Democrats’ acceptance of low standards
2024 Presidential Election,Donald Trump,Secret Service,Trump Assassination Attempts
Kimberly Cheatle, director of the Secret Service, suggested on ABC News that one reason the shooter was able to graze Donald Trump’s ear with a bullet was the “sloped roof” upon which he perched was a “safety factor” for law enforcement — so to keep them safe, she stuck all the agents inside the building. That’s a blunder of epic proportions. She should be immediately fired, particularly since she also, in the same interview, admitted that “the buck stops with me.”
But she won’t. Cheatle will stay on — and stay on — and stay on — to infinity and beyond, if possible; she’ll stay until some sort of scandalous finding makes it impossible to stay; she’ll stay until the office and title is peeled from her cold dead hands.
Cheatle will stay because Democrats have a low bar for performance, and simply put, incompetence, to them, isn’t a fireable offense — no, not even when the incompetence is acknowledged, admitted and confessed.
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