Secret Service director touts changes as Congress presses him on Trump assassination attempt

Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The acting director of the Secret Service says the agency is “reorganizing and reimagining” its culture and how it operates following an assassination attempt against Donald Trump on the campaign trail in July. Members of a bipartisan House task force investigating the attempt on Trump’s life pushed Ronald Rowe on Thursday about how the agency’s staffers could have missed such blatant security vulnerabilities leading up to that day in Butler, Pennsylvania. During the hearing Rowe was repeatedly asked by flabbergasted lawmakers how problems so obvious in hindsight were allowed to happen. These included communications difficulties between the Secret Service and local law enforcement that help secure events and the building overlooking the rally being left unprotected.