Secret Service touts ‘strengthened’ RNC security amid criticism over Trump shooting
by Martin Pengelly in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6P7P3)
Director Kimberly Cheatle says she is confident' in plans as Alejandro Mayorkas slams agency over security failure'
The director of the US Secret Service said she had reviewed and strengthened" security plans for the Republican national convention in Milwaukee, as the failed assassination attempt against Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday put her agency under immense political pressure.
Amid demands for answers over how 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to carry an AR-15-style rifle to a rooftop close to Trump at the Butler Farm Show Grounds, and to fire multiple shots, the secretary of homeland security slammed a failure" of security.
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