2024-07-24 00:47:24
The Secret Service officials responsible for the security of US political leaders asked Donald Trump’s campaign to stop scheduling large outdoor rallies and other outdoor events with big crowds, The Washington Post reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
This directive comes after the assassination attempt on the former President at an election rally in Pennsylvania’s Butler days ago.
According to reports, agents from the Secret Service raised their concerns with the Trump camp about large outdoor rallies. However, the imminent rallies of the Republican nominee are indoor programs.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, resigned following outcry about how the agency failed to protect Donald Trump and avoid the assassination bid. The agency is facing investigations by multiple congressional committees and the internal watchdog of the US Department of Homeland Security.
In an email to staff, Cheatle said she takes “full responsibility” for the security lapse. “In light of recent events, it is with a heavy heart that I have made the difficult decision to step down as your director,” she wrote.
Cheatle also appeared before a Congressional committee for a hearing where she mentioned that the attempt on Trump’s life was the Secret Service’s “most significant operational failure” in decades.
The US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has appointed a bipartisan, independent panel to review the assassination attempt.
The panel members will have “extensive law enforcement and security experience to conduct a 45-day independent review of the planning for and actions taken by the US Secret Service and state and local authorities before, during, and after the rally, and the U.S. Secret Service governing policies and procedures,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.
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