Secret Service Task Director: Failing security measures for former President Trump “inexcusable”

Ronald Rowe, acting director of the US Secret Service agency and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate, are witnessing at a joint session of the Senate's two commissions on the assassination of former President Trump. At the heart of the senator's interest are the shortcomings of security measures in the hours ahead of the assassination.

Acting director of the Secret Service agency said he considered “unwarranted” the absence of security agents on the roof from which the attacker shot in the direction of former President Trump. Mr. Rowe said he had recently been on the scene in Butler, Pennsylvania.

I felt ashamed of what I saw. As a career officer and a 25-year-old Secret Service employee, I can't understand why there were no agents on that roof. He said it.

Mr. Rowe also blamed local authorities for not sharing with the federal authorities the data he described as vital.

According to him, they had not shared information that an armed person had been spotted on a roof near the site of the rally several minutes before the 13 July attack took place.

Local “Officers did not share this information, he said. For me it's very disturbing that we didn't get this information fast enough. We didn't know there was an incident going on”He said.

Meanwhile, FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate said the profile in social media believed to belong to author Thomas Matthew Crook shows he supported political violence and anti-Semitic content and anti-immigration.

Posting was made in the 1920s and 2020s of what he was in high school.

“From this account has become more than 700 comments”, He said. Some comments reflect anti-semitic content and anti-immigration and support political violence”.

Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Chetle resigned last week following numerous criticisms from lawmakers.

The FBI made yesterday new details of the investigation into the motive of the 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crook attack. According to authorities, he had been searching the internet for information about mass shootings, power plants, improvised explosive devices, as well as efforts to kill Slovakia's prime minister in May.

The FBI announced that Mr. Trump has agreed to be questioned by his agents in the role of a victim. The FBI office said last week that the former president was hit in the ear by a bullet or part of it, during an attempt to kill him on July 13th, during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Mr. Trump announced yesterday that he expects questioning to be conducted Thursday.

Lawmakers want to be answered by the acting director of the Secret Service, how it's possible that the Crooks were able to get so close to Mr. Trump.

Investigators believe he shot 8 times in the direction of Mr. Trump with a semiautomatic weapon of the type AR-15, similar to the cavals, from the roof of a building at a distance of 135 meters from the podium where he was keeping his word, Mr. Trump.

One of the participants at the gathering was killed and two others were injured. The author of the incident was shot to death by a Secret Service agent.

During last week's session, former director Chetle said the Secret Service had failed in Mr. Trump's protection mission.

She named the attempt to kill him that “ The Secret Service for decades and vowed to do everything to find out what went wrong and to make sure that this would not happen again.

She acknowledged that the Secret Service had been announced from two to five times over a suspicious person before the rally attack took place. She also said that the roof from which the author opened fire had been identified as a possible position several days before the election meeting was held.

She said she apologized to Mr. Trump during a call after the assassination.

On Monday, in an interview with Fox News network, Mr. Trump came to the aid of Secret Service agents who defend him after the assassination, but said he held the roof from which Croux shot should have had agents and that he should have had better communication with the local police.

He praised the agent who shot the author upstairs, but noted that It would have been better if he had shot 9 seconds earlier”

A series of investigations are being conducted regarding Mr. Trump's assassination attempt by Senate and House of Representatives commissions, as well as a special two-party group set up by Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives and Democrat Leader in the Hakim Jeffries House of Representatives. / VOA