The assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, which was nearly pulled off, should have never happened. Not by a long shot.
Questions continue to be raised regarding how the 20-year-old shooter had so much intel on the Pennsylvania rally and how he managed to take a position so dangerously close to the former president, nearly killing him as intended.
According to Breitbart, the new acting director of the Secret Service was recent grilled by Congress, and some of the admissions were shocking and infuriating, to say the least.
During a Friday press conference, acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe admitted that the agency failed to protect Trump at the Butler, PA rally, calling the incident an agency "failure."
Rowe made a number of shocking admissions during the presser, saying that he believes the roofline where the shooter was perched should have been better covered by the agency.
"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. That building was very close to that outer perimeter. And we should have had more of a presence," Rowe said.
He added, "This was a failure. We should have had better protection for the protected."
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“This was a secret service failure. That roofline should have been covered. We should have had better eyes on that,” said Ronald Rowe.
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Rowe was asked about video that clearly showed the shooter running across the roof of the building.
"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."
Many social media users and Trump supporters reacted to the acting director's admission of failure. Some doubted anyone would be ultimately held accountable.
"Sure, they are going to investigate themselves. And no one will be fired and no one will be held accountable," one X user wrote.
Another X user wrote, "He literally was the person responsible. Not just he was in the chain of command. He literally had the yes or no on all of this. He's effectively investigating himself."
Only time will tell if there will be consequences within the agency for what happened on that day.
