Tag Archives: Secret Service

Jimmy Williams U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle faced bipartisan demands for her resignation following a high-profile security failure that allowed an attempted assassination on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Despite intense questioning from lawmakers and growing pressure to step down, Cheatle maintained her stance, insisting she is the best …

Jimmy Williams House Speaker Mike Johnson, along with other prominent Republicans, has called for the resignation of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle after a gunman attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “I’m going to call for resignation,” Johnson, R-La., stated during an appearance …

Shauneen Miranda, North Dakota Monitor As the nation reels from the attempted assassination against former President Donald J. Trump and the Secret Service comes under intense scrutiny, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday said “we are in a heightened and very dynamic threat environment.” The former president and …

Steven Singer, Common Dreams Behind the story of missing text messages from the U.S. Secret Service and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, is a bigger scandal: Former President Donald Trump placed his loyalists in key executive branch positions for a reason. Many are still there. Trump’s Loyalists …

Text messages from January 5 and January 6, 2021, were deleted by the Secret Service, according to a letter sent by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General to the House and Senate Homeland Security committees. Though the Secret Service maintains that the text messages were lost as …

The Justice Department said Wednesday that settlements have been reached in four civil cases after protesters were removed from D.C.’s Lafayette Square during civil rights demonstrations in June 2020. As part of the settlements, the United States Park Police and Secret Service will “update and clarify” policies on demonstrations “within …

The city of Albuquerque sent a $211,175.94 bill from former President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign rally in 2019 to a debt collection agency. “In my mind, he owes us a lot more because there was about a day and a half where we couldn’t even function as a city,” Albuquerque Mayor …

A man was arrested Wednesday for gun and ammunition offenses near the official vice president’s residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory in Washington, police said. Paul Murray of San Antonio, Texas was detained and arrested after he was stopped by police near the Naval Observatory — the vice presidential …