Secret Service “failure” played a part in the incident, the Homeland Security head has said
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was nearly killed due to a “failure” of his Secret Service protection detail, US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has said.
Trump was speaking at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday when he narrowly dodged a bullet that took off a part of his ear. One person in the stands was killed, and two others were seriously wounded before the Secret Service neutralized the gunman.
”An incident like this cannot happen,” Mayorkas told CNN on Monday. “When I say that something like this cannot happen, we are speaking of a failure.”
“We are going to analyze, through an independent review, how that occurred, why it occurred, and make recommendations and findings to ensure it doesn’t happen again,” he added.