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Joanna Walters

Secret Service takes ‘full responsibility’ for Trump shooting security failures

a man in a suit and tie looks on from behind a microphone
Ronald Rowe, the acting director of the Secret Service, testifies to Congress on Tuesday. Photograph: Allison Bailey/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock

The US Secret Service takes “full responsibility” for the events that led up to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump last month, the acting director of the agency said on Friday.

In a press conference in Washington, Ronald Rowe, who replaced Kimberly Cheatle after she stood down from her position as director of the service after Trump was shot, said: “This was a failure.”

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