The agency's leader says it's rethinking how it protects current and former Presidents, after a second shooter got close to Donald Trump
Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr. speaks during a news conference about the attempted assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, at the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office on Sept, 16, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Fl.
The Secret Service’s most well-known mission is to protect the country’s current and former Presidents, and presidential candidates. But for years, the agency has been plagued by insufficient budgets, understaffing, antiquated technology, and scandal—such as when a Secret Service detail scouting for a trip by President Obama to Cartagena, Colombia, was caught bringing prostitutes back to their hotel rooms.
“The sitting president and both candidates are receiving the same level of Secret Service security protection,” says Crow. But he adds that the agency is being asked to do more than ever before, leaving agents overworked and undermining the agency’s “level of readiness.” While Trump was playing the fifth hole of his course Sunday afternoon, Trump’s security detail spotted a man in the trees along the fence line near the sixth green and opened fire on him, Rowe said. Officers found a cell phone and a loaded SKS-style rifle with a scope on the scene and eventually apprehended Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, who was charged with gun crimes in federal court on Monday. Cell phone records indicate Routh was in the area for nearly 12 hours, according to investigators.
The Secret Service is facing a “dynamic threat environment,” Rowe said. That requires more trained agents to be ready to deploy before the unforeseen happens.
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