Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe, Jr. told reporters at a Friday press conference that counter-snipers had not been deployed to a Trump event until the infamous rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.
“It was the first time Secret Service counter-snipers were deployed to support the former president’s detail,” Rowe said.
“That means when they put Trump on trial in Manhattan,” said Jesse Watters, “every day when he returned from court to Trump tower, there were no Secret Service counter-snipers. The whole world knew Trump’s schedule and location for six weeks in a city with thousands of windows and high rises.”
The @SecretService admitted today that Trump wasn’t given counter-sniper teams at his campaign rallies for the last two years. Why after years of no Secret Service counter-snipers, did they show up in Butler? When he finally was given counter-snipers in Butler, the snipers only… pic.twitter.com/1P6SP2N9jp
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) August 3, 2024
Rowe also told reporters last week the agency has yet to interview local law enforcement despite his disgraced predecessor pinning the blame on the police for security failures which left Trump wounded, two rallygoers injured, and a third one killed.
“We’ll look forward to interviewing them and definitely getting their side of the story,” Rowe promised. “This was a Secret Service failure, and so they should not be blamed. We’re not trying to shift blame to anybody.”
Ex-Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said immediately after the failed assassination attempt that local law enforcement was
