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.
