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Michael Sainato

Two men wounded at Trump rally shooting say Secret Service failed them

A person is removed by state police from the stands of a rally
A person is removed by state police from the stands after guns were fired at Donald Trump at a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, on 13 July. Photograph: Rebecca Droke/AFP/Getty Images

Two men who survived being shot during the attempt to assassinate Donald Trump in July at a rally in support of the former president say the US Secret Service failed them as well as the Republican White House nominee.

The remarks from Jim Copenhaver, 74, and David Dutch, 57, came in speaking with Tom Llamas on NBC Nightly News in their first public interview since the shooting in Pennsylvania, which also killed one spectator and injured Trump’s ear before a Secret Service sniper shot the would-be assassin dead.

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