DEI-Obsessed Secret Service Chief Kim Cheatle Still Hasn’t Resigned After Catastrophic Incompetence Almost Got Trump Killed

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly A. Cheatle remains at the head of the law enforcement agency tasked with protecting American presidents and presidential candidates despite the catastrophic failures that allowed a would-be assassin to fire several shots at former Republican President Donald Trump.

Thomas W. Crooks, the alleged gunman in Saturday’s shooting, managed to outsmart the nation’s premier executive protection team with lethal effect.

Despite a joint team of Secret Service agents, snipers, and local law enforcement in Butler County, Penn., Crooks was able to bring a ladder to the backside of one of the only buildings in the area around the rally, climb the ladder with a large rifle slung around his shoulders, and take a prone position within 150 yards of the Republican presidential nominee.

According to media reports, Crooks had been spotted and flagged as suspicious more than 30 minutes before he fired the shots that would wound Trump and two rally-goers, while leaving one man dead.

Additional reports have suggested that a local police officer even climbed the ladder Crooks had use, saw Crooks, but quickly fled for his own safety.

In the aftermath of the most high profile Secret Service failure since the shooting of President Ronald Reagan, Cheatle’s tenure as director of the agency has come under increased scrutiny.

Top Republicans in Congress have launched an investigation into the breakdowns that allowed Crooks to come within inches of murdering the Republican presidential nominee. Dozens of media reports have included interviews with current and former law enforcement professionals panning the agency’s preparedness and performance on Saturday.

“It was a total security breakdown from start to finish,” former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker told the New York Post. “From the total security plan for the rally to the reaction once the shots rang out.”

Critics have particularly raised her focus on left-wing ideological crusades, such as “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” programs and her avowed desire to make the Secret Service at least 30 percent female.

Those initiatives have drawn widespread mockery on social media, as video from the assassination attempt show female Secret Service agents cowering in fear while their male counterparts throw themselves into protecting Trump.

“What I was seeing was DEI,” Swecker said of Trump’s security detail, which included three females. “And I am not anti-woman. I have three daughters and three granddaughters, and they’d make great Secret Service agents.”

“But the women I saw up there with the president — they looked like they were running in circles. One didn’t know how to holster, the other one didn’t seem to know what to do, and another one seemed not to be able to find her holster.  DEI is one thing. Competence and effectiveness is another, and I saw DEI out there,” Swecker said.

In one video, now seen hundreds of millions of times across various social media platforms, three female Secret Service agents appear bewildered, scared, and confused as Trump is loaded into an evacuation vehicle, with one agent struggling multiple times to holster her firearm.

On Monday, the New York Post further reported that Cheatle only landed the top job after a push from Vice President Jill Biden’s office, suggesting that she was hired because of her XX chromosomes rather than her ability to lead an executive protection agency.

Cheatle had previous worked in executive protection for PepsiCo, the soda and snack company.

Regardless of Cheatle’s future in that post, Trump’s security detail has undergone a massive overhaul.

At the Republican National Convention this week, Trump has been escorted by a large posse of serious looking men, though it’s unclear whether any of these bodyguards are members of private security firms.