AdvertisementThe Secret Service, after initially denying turning down requests for additional security, is now acknowledging some may have been rejected. Trump advisers’ anger deepened after an agency spokesman publicly denied that any request for additional security lodged by Trump or his detail had ever been rejected. “The assertion that a member of the former president’s security team requested additional security resources that the U.S. Secret Service or the Department of Homeland Security rebuffed is absolutely false,” said Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Secret Service, in a statement on the day after the shooting. “The Secret Service has a vast, challenging, and intricate mission,” he said in a statement. The gunman was spotted acting suspiciously before Trump began speaking but the Secret Service did not intervene or prevent Trump from taking the stage.

Source: Washington Post July 21, 2024 09:09 UTC