Secret Service chief claims full responsibility for ‘failures’ in planning and coverage at Trump rally shooting
hit its lowest point in at least a decade following the near-assassination of former President Donald Trump this past July.performance as “good” or “excellent,” while 25% said it was “fair” and 36% dubbed it “poor.”
In 2014, the last time the agency approached having such low scores, 43% of Americans rated it “excellent” or “good,” 30% rated it “fair” and 16% rated it “poor.” The survey was taken after gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, fired eight shots at Trump, 78, during a July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pa., killing rallygoerThe Secret Service has faced questions about how Crooks had managed to crawl across the roof of a nearby shed, some 130 yards from Trump, with a firearm. Several attendees later claimed to have attempted to alert law enforcement prior to the shooting.The survey was still in the field on Sept.
“The president wasn’t even really supposed to go there. It was not on his official schedule. And so we put together a security plan, and that security plan worked,” Rowe told reporters last week.Investigators found issues with planning, confusion about coordination with local law enforcement, agents not adhering fully to protocol and a host of other problems.
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