Incidents like Sunday’s apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump show the Secret Service is stretched so thin due to short staffing that potential dangers are becoming increasingly hard to respond to adequately, two former agents told Business Insider.
Kenneth Valentine, a former Secret Service Special Agent in Charge, stated that security around the former president was ratcheted up after the July incident, and the Secret Service faced intense scrutiny for failing to prevent the shooting.
In a Monday press conference discussing the incident, the acting director of the Secret Service called for 'some hard conversations with Congress.'
The suspect was able to flee the scene unharmed but, thanks to details from an eyewitness, was identified and detained by law enforcement shortly after the incident.
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