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US Secret Service says rejected Trump requests for more resources: Report

Donald Trump has thanked the agents who helped him out of the rally in Butler following the shooting, but some Republicans have criticised the federal agency [Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP]

The United States Secret Service has admitted it had turned down a request for additional resources to protect former President Donald Trump before his attempted assassination last week, according to a report carried by The New York Times.

Secret Services spokesman Anthony Guglielmi acknowledged in a statement to the daily that some requests for additional federal security assets for Trump’s detail were turned down in the two years leading up to the attempt on July 13.

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