Trump assassination attempt: The Secret Service rejects requests for additional protection resources
The New York Times reported on Saturday, citing a spokesman, that the US Secret Service said it had rejected requests from Donald Trump’s bodyguard for additional resources during the two years leading up to last week’s assassination attempt.
According to New York Times, this is a retraction from previous statements by the agency in which it denied rejecting such requests submitted to the former president and the Republican candidate for the presidential election.
Former US President Trump said he had received no advance warning from anyone about a potential problem ahead of his campaign rally in Pennsylvania last week that saw an assassination attempt that left him in his right ear.
Trump told Fox News in an interview on Saturday, “Nobody mentioned it… No one said there was a problem… I could have waited 15 minutes… They could have said let’s wait 15 minutes or 20 minutes or five minutes… Anything… No one said anything”.
“I think that was a mistake… How did someone manage to climb on that roof? And why wasn’t reported?”
