New Secret Service Director Announces Changes in Wake of Trump Assassination Attempt

Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. said he’s ashamed that a roof near the rally was not better secured.
New Secret Service Director Announces Changes in Wake of Trump Assassination Attempt
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is covered by Secret Service agents at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., on July 13, 2024. Evan Vucci/AP Photo
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The Secret Service is making changes in the wake of the failed assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, the agency’s new acting director announced on July 30.

Acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr. said he had traveled to the site of the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where the former president was shot, allegedly by a man who fired from the roof of a nearby building.