Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle originally said local police were in a building whose roof was used by Thomas Crooks to shoot at Donald Trump.
A U.S. Secret Service official said a Pennsylvania police SWAT team was in another building than the one whose roof was used Saturday by Thomas Crooks to shoot at former President Donald Trump .
The disclosure follows news that the Secret Service had increased security for Trump after being told of a plot by Iran to kill him. The contradiction is certain to increase already sharp questions about whether the Secret Service acted appropriately in arranging security for the rally, which ended when Crooks fatally shot one attendee and wounded two others as he narrowly missed killing the Republican presidential nominee Trump.
"And so, you know, there's a safety factor that would be considered there that we would want to put somebody up on a sloped roof," Cheatle said. And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building from inside."
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