Trump Assasination: Secret Service Makes Shock Admission 

A few weeks after former President Donald Trump was the target of an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally, the acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe has admitted the Secret Service’s failure to protect the former president.

“This was a failure. We should have had better protection for the protectee,” Rowe said.

Rowe admitted that the agency should have had better protection measures, including increased surveillance on the roofline.

The director further revealed that the roof on which the alleged shooter shot the former president should have been covered. In addition to the former president’s assassination attempt, Rowe noted that the shooter, identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, killed one rally-goer and injured two others.

“We should have had better coverage on that roofline. We should have had at least some other set of eyes from the Secret Service point of view covering that,” Rowe said. “That building was very close to that outer perimeter. And we should have had more of a presence.”

"This was a failure. We should have had better protection for the protectee. We should have had better coverage on that roof line."

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When publicly asked about a video taken by one of the injured rally-goers, which shows the shooter running on the roof, Rowe said he needed to review the timeline of events but admitted that the Secret Service failed to protect the roof.

“As far as the timeline of him running back and forth, I know the FBI has provided a bit of a chronology as well. And so I’d have to go back and look at that,” Rowe said. “But the bottom line is…this was a Secret Service failure. That roofline should have been covered. We should have had better eyes on that.”

Initially, at a senate hearing earlier this week, Rowe claimed that the Secret Service counter-snipers did not see Crooks on the roof with a gun. However, he didn’t specify if the counter-snipers saw him with a weapon.

Later on, when asked by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) if the Secret Service counter-snipers saw Crooks on the roof at all, Rowe said that they didn’t see him until he started shooting. Meanwhile, a video surfaced on Wednesday morning showing Crooks visible on the roof before he fired the shots.