Trump, who was the target of an assassination attempt exactly one week ago, said on Saturday that he believes that the Secret Service responsible for his security has made mistakes.
The US Secret Service had refused requests to add the former president Donald Trump’s security measures during the two years before this assassination attempt, reported the US newspapers The Washington Post and New York Times.
The Secret Service admitted it had refused some of the requests made by Trump’s team after it was reported based on unnamed sources. Previously, the secret service had denied it.
A special request for increased security measures was not made at the Pennsylvania campaign event where Trump’s assassination attempt took place. However, the background could have been the agency’s previous refusals to strengthen security measures.
The Washington Post reports that the agency responsible for the security of current, former and future US presidents had repeatedly refused to increase security measures at Trump’s campaign events, citing a lack of resources.
The head of the secret service Kimberly Cheatle is scheduled to answer questions about security at a Pennsylvania campaign rally at a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on Monday.
Trump, who was the target of an assassination attempt exactly one week ago, said in his interview with Fox News on Saturday that no one warned him of a possible security threat before starting the speech.
– No one mentioned anything. Nobody said we had a problem. I could have waited 15, 20 or five minutes.
– I think it was a mistake. How did anyone even get up to the roof. And why wasn’t an announcement made about him, Trump asked on Fox News.