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American Secret Service: We failed during the assassination of Trump

2024-07-22 18:17:00, Kosova & Bota CNA
American Secret Service: We failed during the assassination of Trump
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies before the US Congress on July 22, 2024

The director of the American Secret Service said that the assassination of former President Donald Trump was the "biggest operational failure" of the agency in decades.

Director Kimberly Cheatle told US lawmakers during a congressional hearing on Monday that "on July 13 we failed."

Cheatle said she takes full responsibility for the agency's mistakes related to the attack on Trump's rally in Pennsylvania on July 13.

Cheatle is testifying before a congressional committee as calls mount for her to resign over security failures at the rally, where a 20-year-old gunman tried to kill the former Republican president.

The House Oversight Committee heard Cheatle's first testimony since the shooting at the July 13 rally in Pennsylvania that killed a person in the audience.

Trump suffered an ear injury, while two other people were injured after Thomas Matthew Crooks climbed onto the roof of a nearby building and opened fire.

The director of the Secret Service said that the agency has not received a request for increased security for the July 13 rally.

"We have not denied any assets for the events of July 13," she said before Congress.

"We believe there was a sufficient number of agents" at Trump's July 13 rally, she said.

US lawmakers have expressed outrage at how the gunman could get so close to the Republican presidential nominee when he was supposed to be closely guarded. The Secret Service has admitted that it denied several requests from the Trump campaign to increase security at events he attended years before the assassination./ Rel





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