Secret Service chief says Trump's July 13 rally was first with federal counter-snipers
Former President Donald Trump ’s fateful July 13 campaign rally in Pennsylvania was the first-ever time the Secret Service used counter-snipers to protect him, the agency’s acting director Ronald Rowe revealed in a Friday press briefing.
“We evaluated a threat stream … and we put our Secret Service counter-sniper personnel out there,” he said. “And looking back, it was very fortunate that we did.”US Secret Service acting director Ronald Rowe revealed in a Friday press briefing that former President Donald Trump’s July 13 campaign rally in Pennsylvania was the first ever to use counter-snipers from his agency — but still couldn’t explain why none were posted on the building from where a would-be assassin opened fire.
In the past, the 45th president’s security detail had been covered by state and local counter-sniper teams, which for the Butler Farm Show site had been comprised of Beaver County Emergency Services Unit personnel.According to video footage, a figure was seen scampering across the roof of the AGR building at 6:08 p.m. that day, three minutes before Crooks started shooting.
One member of the former president’s security detail was on the phone with the Secret Service’s Pittsburgh field office as the shots rang out, the acting director told reporters Friday.“That building was very close to that outer perimeter,” he added of the roughly 130 yards between the protectee and the shooter. “And we should have had more of a presence.”“We should have had better protection for the protectee,” Rowe said at the Friday briefing.
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