Saturday’s assassination attempt raises huge questions about the Secret Service — and its political overseers.
Trump lands in Milwaukee ahead of the RNC, one day after assassination attempt -- Follow The Post's live blog for updates Secret Service agents rushing to get former President Donald Trump off the stage after the assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania.
Plainly, the security detail was far too small: The latest news is that the Secret Service relied heavily on borrowing local police — in rural Pennsylvania! — for the event.The Trump team says it repeatedly requested larger Secret Service details. The agency’s flacks are denying it, but then they work for the Department of Homeland Security, whose chief Alejandro Mayorkas has for years insisted the Southern Border is “secure.
Another reason to believe the Trump camp’s account is DHS’s refusal to provide Secret Service protection to RFK Jr. And he’s the son of Robert Kennedy, assassinated as he was on the verge of winning the 1968 nomination, and the nephew of President John Kennedy, shot down in Dallas in 1963.Yes, his own campaign is providing top-notch security, but it’s beyond disgusting to deny him the best, seemingly out of pure political spite.
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