US Secret Service Chief Calls Trump Shooting ‘Unacceptable’
- GOP lawmakers launch investigation after former president shot
- Agency’s director Cheatle vows to make ‘immediate changes’
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The head of the US Secret Service, facing harsh public scrutiny and investigations after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, said the shooting “never should have happened” and vowed to make “immediate changes.”
In an interview broadcast Monday on ABC News, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said the agency’s failure to protect Trump from being wounded Saturday at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, was “unacceptable” and “something that shouldn’t happen again.”