Our editorial today is absolutely correct: The director of the Secret Service must resign. Resignations of top leadership in a government agency after a manifest failure of that agency to perform its mission don’t happen often enough. Director Cheatle’s explanations of why the building used by Donald Trump’s attempted assassin was not properly secured would be pitiful if they didn’t betray such obvious incompetence.
We initially were told that the building was outside the security perimeter for the rally. That didn’t make sense given the building’s location. This was the Butler Farm Show, not Bryant Park. It would be a much harder job for the Secret Service to adequately secure the site if it was surrounded by a dozen skyscrapers with thousands of windows, but there were only a few short buildings that a gunman could possibly shoot from, and securing all of them should have been doable. The building was so close to Trump that it was necessary to do so.
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