Secret Service RESPONDS After Report Alleges Agency Diverted Security From Trump To Jill Biden

The U.S. Secret Service leadership is in turmoil following the worst security failure in decades after former president Donald Trump was shot with a high-caliber rifle by a deranged gunman. Now the service tasked with protecting the president and presidential contenders is responding to reports that it directed agents away from Trump on Saturday to enhance protection around First Lady Dr. Jill Biden.

The Washington Examiner first reported that the Secret Service rejected allegations that it diluted President Trump’s security, leading to the near-fatal attempt on his life by 20-year-old Thomas Crooks. Many of the former president’s allies in Washington are seeking answers from the clandestine protection agency after Crooks was killed while taking shots at Trump with an AR-15 rifle from a rooftop more than 400 feet from the stage where Trump was speaking. Allegations that Jill Biden received some of Trump’s Secret Service protection were initially raised by RealClearPolitics White House correspondent Susan Crabtree.

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“This is the problem that my Secret Sources have cited: Secret Services resources were diverted to Jill Biden’s event and away from Trump’s because they followed agency protocol applying to Trump as a former president, according to two sources within the Secret Service community,” Crabtree wrote on X. “There were also many supplemental agents from different field officers (not Trump’s regular detail) providing security at the rally because Trump’s regular detail has been overworked (some working 7 days straight), and only two counter-snipers.”

This is the problem that my Secret Sources have cited: Secret Services resources were diverted to Jill Biden's event and away from Trump's because they followed agency protocol applying to Trump as a former president, according to two sources within the Secret Service community.… pic.twitter.com/9MzmS6Bia7

— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) July 14, 2024

The allegation that the Secret Service compromised President Trump’s safety did not sit well with Anthony Guglielmi, the chief of communications for the Secret Service who responded on X that the report was false.

“Susan, this is very wrong,” Guglielmi replied to Crabtree on X. “We did not divert resources from POTUS Trump & protection models don’t work that way. As far as ‘field office teams’ these are the candidate nominee operations teams that are added during election years for the heavy travel tempo.”

“There’s an untrue assertion that a member of the former President’s team requested additional security resources & that those were rebuffed,” Gugliemi posted. “This is absolutely false. In fact, we added protective resources & technology & capabilities as part of the increased campaign travel tempo.”

For his part, President Trump on Monday credited his bodyguards for outstanding work in tackling him so hard that his shoes fell off and he was left with nasty bruises but was ultimately saved from rifle rounds that pierced his right ear. A sniper with the Secret Service shot Crooks “between the eyes,” Trump told the New York Post aboard a private jet on his way to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

The elimination of Crooks likely won’t prevent Republicans on Capitol Hill from convening hearings that will see Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle dragged in for questioning about the significant breach in security. No president or presidential candidate has been shot since President Ronald Reagan in 1981 when gunman John Hinckley Jr. shot him in the abdomen just over two months into his presidency.

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