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New Secret Service Head ‘Cannot Defend’ Security Lapses

New Secret Service Head ‘Cannot Defend’ Security Lapses
Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. testifies before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security and Government Affairs committees in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 30, 2024. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Epoch Times Staff
Epoch Times Staff
7/31/2024|Updated: 7/31/2024
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Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. said on Tuesday that he was “ashamed” that his agency failed to adequately protect former President Donald Trump from a would-be assassin.
“As a career law enforcement officer, and a 25-year veteran with the Secret Service, I cannot defend why that roof was not better secured,” Rowe told two Senate committees after surveying the Pennsylvania site where Trump was nearly killed.
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