Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump gets into a vehicle with the assistance of U.S. Secret Service personnel after he was shot in the right ear during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 13, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle rebuffed bipartisan calls to resign for security failures that allowed a would-be assassin to wound Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, and rankled lawmakers by refusing to provide details about the incident.
The U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee's Republican chair, James Comer, and top Democrat, Jamie Raskin -- normally bitterly divided on most issues -- each called on Cheatle to step down.
