Government officials and others called out for increased Secret Service protection for former President Donald Trump on Sunday, within hours of a second assassination attempt in two months.
Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., ranking member of the chamber’s judiciary and budget committees, and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R.-La., who himself was wounded by a gunman in a politically motivated shooting, called for an immediate intensification of security around Trump.
“Authorities just acknowledged if President Trump was president, they’d do more to protect him,” Scalise wrote on the X social media platform, previously known as Twitter. “This must change. There have been TWO attempts on Trump’s life. Secret Service must up their level of protection of him to their FULL capabilities—including expanding the perimeter.”
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