The Biden administration informed the Secret Service about an unspecified threat from Iran targeting Donald Trump prior to Saturday’s assassination attempt, though it is believed that the Pennsylvania shooting was not linked to any Iranian involvement
In the hours following the shooting at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania, right-wing media figures and conservative influencers rallied around a baseless narrative on social media, claiming that diversity initiatives and female Secret Service agents were to blame for Donald Trump’s injury.
The Secret Service has come under scrutiny after a gunman managed to access a roof between 150 and 250 years from the stage where former President Trump was speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania.
A Secret Service agent was robbed at gunpoint and fired his gun during the confrontation while President Biden was in Los Angeles for a reelection fundraiser over the weekend, according to the Secret Service.
As a jury prepares to deliberate in Donald Trump’s hush money trial this week, the former president’s Secret Service staff is making its own preparations – what to do if Trump is sentenced to jail.
Republican Party leaders are accusing the Secret Service of failing to provide sufficient protection from demonstrators at the GOP convention in Milwaukee in July.
Former President Trump on Wednesday admitted he asked Secret Service agents to take him to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but denied that he lunged at security detail for refusing to let him go.
The Secret Service quietly prepared for the potential that Donald Trump could be jailed for repeatedly violating a gag order in his hush money trial.
