Secret Service Admits “Failure” In Protecting Trump As Questions About Assassination Attempts On Ex-POTUS Grow
deadline.comFacing an ever-growing chorus of criticism, the Secret Service today attempted to be transparent and upfront about its potentially fatal errors protecting former President Donald Trump during a July campaign rally in Butler, PA in which Trump was shot and wounded. “This was a failure on the part of the United States Secret Service.
It’s important that we hold ourselves to account for the failures of July 13th and that we use the lessons learned to make sure that we do not have another failure like this again,” Acting Secret Service Director Ronald L.
Rowe said Friday at a news conference accompanying the release of the summary. Rowe promised the agency was moving into the self-described “accountability phase” of its investigation of its own practices.
The report noted multiple operational and communications failures, including the absence of some of the basic tenets of the U.S.
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