In the United States, the presidential campaign is taking place in an unprecedented climate of tension and violence against the candidates. Less than a week after what is being treated by the authorities as a second assassination attempt against Donald Trump, the management of the Secret Service, responsible for protecting public figures, acknowledged on Friday, September 20, failings during the first attempt, in Pennsylvania.
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The internal investigation “ found deficiencies in the Secret Service’s upstream planning and implementation “, Ronald Rowe said at a press conference. While some of the scouting team were very conscientious, others were negligent. ” he said, referring to future sanctions.
Among the mistakes that allowed a lone gunman to open fire on Donald Trump From a nearby rooftop as the Republican candidate delivered his speech in Butler, Pennsylvania, there is a lack of communication between the Secret Service and local police. There is also information exchanged by cell phone rather than the shared radio network.
There were also complacent or insufficiently rigorous agents in planning the event and in scouting and preparing the speech site.
A very high threat level
Ronald Rowe takes over as interim director of the Secret Service Kimberly Cheatle, who resigned on July 23after having acknowledged its responsibility in the “ Secret Service’s biggest operational failure in decades “His disastrous hearing before a House of Representatives committee was notably marked by an obvious withholding of information.
For Ronald Rowe, the West Palm Beach golf incident Sunday, September 15, shows that the threat level is very high and that this requires additional resources for his agency. This is what Joe Biden was asking for at the beginning of the week.
The interim director announced that he wanted to ” redefine “The way in which this service ensures the protection of high-ranking American political figures in order to learn all the lessons from the failed assassination of Donald Trump in July. The House of Representatives unanimously voted for a text so that presidential and vice-presidential candidates benefit from the same level of protection as the president himself.
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