Secret Service Takes Full Responsibility for Assassination Attempt on Trump

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Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe pledges changes such as flying drones and more physical law enforcement presence on site.

Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe said on Friday the agency takes full responsibility for the tragic events at former President Donald Trumpโ€™s rally last month, pledging changes such as flying drones.

โ€œThis was a mission failure,โ€ said Rowe at a press conference in Washington.

Rowe replaced Kimberly Cheatle as director of the Secret Service amid intense scrutiny after she resigned in the wake of the attempted assassination of Trump, which saw one rallygoer killed and two more injured in Butler, Pennsylvania, last month.

Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, was struck at the tip of his ear by a bullet fired by 20-year-old gunman Thomas Crooks while he spoke at a campaign rally. Crooks, who fired several bullets, was killed by a Secret Service counter-sniper.

But agents should have had eyes on the roofs and other vantage points, Rowe said. And despite offers by local enforcement to fly drones, the Secret Service didnโ€™t put one up.

That will change, Rowe said.

โ€œWe thought we might have had it covered with the human eye,โ€ he said. โ€œBut clearly we are going to change our approach now, and we are going to leverage technology and put those unmanned aerial systems up.โ€

โ€œWe did not have a drone on site. We did not put a drone up. Based on the information I have right now, I am aware that there was a request from a local agency to offer to fly a drone on that day. And that is also part of the mission assurance review that Iโ€™ve asked to get some better insight in,โ€ Rowe added.

Rowe said that the Secret Service also failed to communicate with local law enforcement over the radio at the rally. He said that the agency โ€œfell shortโ€ of their responsibility to ensure Trumpโ€™s safety. โ€œIโ€™m working to make sure that this failure does not happen again,โ€ he said.

Byย Caden Pearson

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