By Allende Miglietta, David Morgan and Sarah N. Lynch
Watch: Acting Secret Service Director Says He's Ashamed of Failures Surrounding Trump Shooting
WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) – The new acting director of the U.S. Secret Service said in prepared testimony to Congress on Tuesday that he was "ashamed" of a major security failure that preceded the attempted assassination of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on July 13 at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. .
In testimony released before he addressed two Senate committees, acting Secret Service director Ronald Rowe said he visited the site of the open-air meeting in Butler and climbed to the roof of a nearby building, from which the 20 -year-old Thomas Crooks fired shots that injured Trump's right ear. killed one rally attendee and wounded two others with an AR-15-style rifle.
“What I saw embarrassed me,” Rowe said in prepared testimony before a joint hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Judiciary committees. “As a career police officer and a 25-year veteran of the Secret Service, I can’t defend him for not having that roof was better secured.”
