Secret Service director admits ‘negligence’ in failed Trump assassination attempt

“If some members of the tracking team were very careful, others were careless,” he said, referring to future sanctions. Some firing line issues had been noted but not reported to the hierarchy, Mr. Rowe added.

He replaces Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle, who resigned on July 23, after acknowledging responsibility for “the Secret Service’s most significant operational failure in decades.”

Among the lessons learned from the debacle, Ronald Rowe cited a “lack of clarity” on the part of the Secret Service in its interactions with local police and its expectations of them, as well as gaps in information delivery. The former president was wounded in the ear by the gunfire that also killed one person and wounded two others in the audience at his July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania (northeastern). cThe shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was shot and killed by the Secret Service shortly after opening fire from the roof of a nearby building.