The Secret Service director resigns.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Kimberly Cheatle’s resignation. On Tuesday, Kimberly Cheatle resigned her position as Director of the Secret Service (USSS) following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania. In a statement, President Joe Biden thanked Cheatle for her “decades of public service” and said he would appoint her successor to lead the Secret Service "soon."
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| 1:00.8 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, This is Tangle. Good morning. Good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some |
| 1:27.7 | independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 1:30.1 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about Kimberly |
| 1:33.7 | Cheatel's resignation from the Secret Service. |
| 1:37.0 | She's the director of the Secret Service who announced you stepping down yesterday. |
| 1:42.3 | That was after some congressional testimony that we're going to break down, |
| 1:46.2 | share some views from the right and the left as always, and then my take. Before we jump in, |
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