As the investigation into the second assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump gets underway, Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., told Newsmax that the Secret Service must rethink how it makes protection decisions and assigns resources.
Waltz, who is a member of the House’s Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump, told “Wake Up America” that the briefing the panel received from acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe last week on the agency’s internal probe of the July 13 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, was “jaw-dropping” and “hard to wrap your mind around.”
“I think there’s a systemic problem that I’m pressing the Secret Service on hard, and that is they have to go to threat-based resourcing decisions,” Waltz said. “Donald Trump has threats unlike any president or former president we’ve ever seen. He’s being demonized by the left. And he has active and ongoing assassination plots from an enemy of the United States — the ayatollahs in Iran — two of which that we know of have already been intercepted.
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