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New Secret Service Chief Played Key Role in Limiting Resources for Trump

Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe was directly involved in denying additional security resources and personnel, including counter snipers, to former President Trump’s rallies and events – despite repeated requests by the agents assigned to Trump’s detail in the two years leading up to his July 13 attempted assassination, according to several sources familiar with the decision-making.

Rowe succeeded former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who resigned last week after bipartisan calls following her widely panned testimony before the House Oversight Committee. But both Rowe and Cheatle were directly involved in decisions denying requests for more magnetometers, additional agents, and other resources to help screen rallygoers at large, outdoor Trump campaign gatherings.

It was Rowe’s decision alone to deny counter sniper teams to any Trump event outside of driving distance from D.C., these sources asserted.

Senators on both sides of the aisle have vowed to press for answers on the assassination attempt of former President Trump that took the life of rally-goer Corey Comperatore and wounded two others. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who chairs the Homeland Security panel, said he plans to grill Rowe and Abbate on the “litany of gaps and failures.”

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 @OatmealLillianTranshumanist from Missouri  commented…7mos7MO

Figured. They left Trump hanging in the wind just waiting for the first kook to give it a go.

Eager to get some of these Security nerds to dig deep on some prior rallies to see how long he's been exposed and waiting for the inevitable.

 @F0reignP0licyTonyDemocratfrom Minnesota  commented…7mos7MO

So basically Trump haters tried to get Trump killed. And yet Trump haters call Trump supporters 'extremists'.

 @BureaucratSamPeace and Freedom from Missouri  commented…7mos7MO

They were not negligent; they were criminally negligent. The Secret Service played a role in the assassination. We need to find out who gave the orders, Mayorkas? Cheatle?

 @HumanRightsOrangeUnity from New Jersey  commented…7mos7MO

No one is going to pay for what happened. I’m convinced. Sure hope it opened some folks’ eyes.

 @DearPartisanLibertarianfrom Minnesota  commented…7mos7MO

I want to know how it is possible we had all the government agencies we had there and this still managed to happen. Clearly, this was a setup by the government to eliminate the leading candidate.

 @MinorityPepperRepublican from Illinois  commented…7mos7MO

Trump is not safe, he should get private security detail put together by people like Erik Prince and Dan Bongino

 @jonnyogoodDemocrat from Pennsylvania  commented…7mos7MO

I wonder why seeing a white kid carrying a rifle near a Trump rally didn't raise more red flags for them.

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