Former President Trump defended the 'brave' female Secret Service who 'shielded' him during the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Former President Trump leaped to the defense of a female Secret Service agent who 'shielded' him during an assassination attempt, after she faced blistering online criticism. 'I don’t know how they didn’t get hit,' Trump told thousands at a St. Cloud, Minnesota, rally on Saturday as he recalled how 'bullets were flying' and the security detail had rushed to shield his body. 'Every one of them – there wasn’t one that was slow.
Watch these female agents who have no clue what to do, or what they are doing,' conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza wrote on X following the incident. 'The Secret Service has been trying to raise the number of its female recruits to meet a 30% goal. This is DEI!' Podcaster Matt Walsh wrote that there 'shouldn't be any women' in the Secret Service following the assassination attempt. 'There should not be any women in the Secret Service.
take full responsibility for the security lapse,' she said in her resignation letter. 'In light of recent events, it is with a heavy heart that I have made the difficult decision to step down as your director.' In the aftermath of the attempted assassination, the House Homeland Security Committee launched a full investigation and issued subpoenas into the incident.
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