“When I say that something like this cannot happen, we are talking about a failure,” said Alejandro Mayorkas. The US Secret Service, which is in charge of Trump’s security, reports directly to Mayorkas’ department.
US Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkasadmitted on Monday that the attempted assassination of the former president and Republican candidate for the White House, Donald Trumpwas a security “failure.”
“When I say something like this cannot happen, that’s a failure,” Mayorkas told CNN.
“We will be looking at, through an independent investigation, how it happened, why it happened, and making recommendations based on the findings to ensure that it doesn’t happen again,” he added.
The US Secret Service, which is responsible for Trump’s security, reports directly to Mayorkas’ department.
For her part, the director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatleannounced in a statement that, since Saturday, “they have been implemented changes in the security team” from Trump “to ensure his continued protection during the convention and the remainder of the campaign.”
Trump was shot in the ear during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday before the Secret Service shot dead the shooter, a 20-year-old whose motives remain unknown.
The young man fired from a rooftop very close to the rally moments after several people alerted the security services of his suspicious presence.
Source: Eitb
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