Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado, the leading Democrat on the bipartisan House task force investigating the assassination attempts against President-elect Donald Trump, expressed concern about “a culture of silence” within the Secret Service that discourages agents from speaking up when they should.
Donald Trump is considering several candidates to lead the U.S. Secret Service, including a right-wing media personality and current and former members of his Secret Service detail, following the agency’s failure to prevent two alleged assassination attempts on him this summer.
A Secret Service agent, assigned to protect former President Obama, invited his girlfriend to tour Obama’s Hawaii property while the Obamas were away, according to a memoir by the woman involved.
The U.S. Secret Service has confirmed that robotic dogs are being used to help secure President-elect Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago, following reports of one of the units being seen patrolling the area on Thursday.
Two men have been convicted of robbing an off-duty Secret Service agent at gunpoint after the agent had finished working at a high-profile Los Angeles fundraiser attended by President Joe Biden.
The Secret Service is undergoing major personnel changes and restructuring as the agency seeks to address significant security lapses that occurred before two assassination attempts on former President Donald Trump this summer.
The assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a July rally in Pennsylvania was “preventable and should not have happened,” according to a bipartisan House panel investigating the shooting and the “stunning security failures” at the event.
An independent, bipartisan review has uncovered “numerous mistakes” and “specific failures and breakdowns” by the Secret Service that enabled the assassination attempt on former President Trump in Butler, Penn., in July.
