It's Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024 from Peach Fish Productions. It's the Jist I'm Mike Paska.

The head of the Secret Service has resigned.

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheetel acknowledged that the agency failed and in a letter she therefore made the quote difficult decision quote with a heavy heart.

Sometimes a decision can be difficult. difficult decision, quote, with a heavy heart.

Sometimes a decision can be difficult, but obvious, glaringly obvious,

when someone gets a clear shot at a presidential candidate,

and the only thing that saves him isn't timely intervention protective

gear or the Kevin Kostner slow mow dive in front of the bullet but a chart that's a

problem excessive interest in charts and graphs about immigration.

We can't rely on them to save our candidates if we do the person in charge has got to go.

The Secret Service actually has an excellent track record in the past few decades.

We have hardened our targets so successfully

we've dissuaded and intercepted potential political violence to such an impressive

degree, sometimes we take it for granted, the list of political assassinations.

Not McKinley's time, not when the Kennedys were getting killed, but in my lifetime has been remarkable.

There have been elected officials who've been killed and technically assassinated in the last decade.

For instance, the South Carolina senator was among the victims of the AME Baptist

Church in South Carolina, but there haven't been specifically targeted assassinations since 2011,

which was when Jared Lofner almost killed Gabby Giffords,

but did kill District Court Judge John Roll.

There have been attempted assassinations and aborted

assassinations, but every aborted assassination, be it of a Supreme Court

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