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US Secret Service admits failures in review of shooting at Trump rally

Ronald Rowe, acting director of the US Secret Service, says the agency must hold itself 'to account for the failures' that led to a gunman being able to wound former President Donald Trump at a rally in July [Ben Curtis/Pool/AFP]

The United States Secret Service has acknowledged a series of security failures it made during a July campaign rally where Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was shot at and wounded in the ear.

In a review of the July 13 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, the Secret Service identified “deficiencies” in advanced security planning and poor coordination with local police, said the agency’s acting director, Ronald Rowe.

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