The acting director of the Secret Service also cited “complacency” from others, as well as over-reliance on mobile devices and flaws in advance planning.
Ronald Rowe, the acting director of the U.S. Secret Service, acknowledged failures that led to the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump last July.acknowledged Friday failures that led to a gunman being able to wound former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pa., on July 13.
“It’s important that we hold ourselves to account for the failures of July 13 and that we use the lessons learned to make sure that we do not have another failure like this again,” Ronald Rowe, the acting director of the Secret Service, told reporters.Rowe said that one of the failures was that the Secret Service deferred too much to local law enforcement on securing buildings near the rally and didn’t provide clear guidance.
Rowe said the former president has had “robust security,” more robust than any former president has ever received, since he left office. That security was increased to a presidential level after the July 13 shooting.when a gunman fired multiple shots at Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, at the Butler rally, striking Trump’s ear, killing one attendee and wounding two others. The gunman was killed.
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