Secret Service Director Resigns Following Trump Shooting
- Ronald Rowe named as temporary replacement to lead agency
- Cheatle faced calls to resign following July 13 rally shooting
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US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is stepping down after taking responsibility for security failures at a campaign rally where former President Donald Trump was shot.
A political firestorm engulfed the agency after the July 13 shooting with Republican and Democratic lawmakers calling for Cheatle to resign. The attack, which left Trump wounded and one person dead, marked the closest anyone had come to assassinating a president or presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981.