A group of U.S. Senators accosted and then followed U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Wednesday, calling on her to step down or provide detailed information about Saturday’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
More unsettling details emerged about the enigmatic gunman who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump, raising more questions about how the Secret Service failed to prevent the shooting.
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.
