The Secret Service stopped another assassination attempt against Donald Trump.
But it might not be a job well done for the agency.
And a security expert uttered three words to the Secret Service that had alarm bells ringing.
Secret Service under fire for security failures
The Secret Service is feeling the heat after the second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump in two months.
A gunman set up a sniper’s nest at a fence near the sixth hole of Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
The former President made an impromptu decision to play golf that day.
Secret Service agents who were scouting ahead managed to spot him and open fire on him.
The gunman fled the scene and was arrested in Martin County, Florida.
Security experts were sounding the alarm about the latest assassination attempt against Trump.
The Secret Service might have stopped the gunman before he could get any shots off but the episode revealed serious problems with the agency.
Questions remain about how the gunman was able to wait 12 hours at the sniper’s nest undetected and how he knew that Trump would be playing golf that day.
Former Homeland Security advisor Carrie Bachner told Politico the incident was “a failure, 100%.”
She works as a security expert for her company, the Bachner Group.
“I think it’s a failure, 100%,” Bachner explained. “Obviously, it was successful in the fact that the former president wasn’t shot, which is great, and no shots were fired from that particular individual.”
But that’s the glass half full way of looking at things according to her.
Alarming failure by the Secret Service
Former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) John Sandweg said that the gunman being able to wait 12 hours for Trump to play through was an unacceptable oversight.
“I think that’s fair to say that that’s a failure,” Sandweg said. “There’s no denying that.”
Sandweg said the two attempts on Trump’s life are a sign the Secret Service needs to reassess how it does things.
“What we’re seeing right now is, that’s not enough,” Sandweg added.
Trump praised the job the Secret Service did at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally where he was shot in July and for its work at the golf course.
“THE JOB WAS ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “I AM VERY PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!”
Acting Secret Service director Ronald Rowe admitted that the agency may need to reevaluate some things during a press conference in Florida.
“The Secret Service’s protective methodologies work, and they are sound and we saw that yesterday,” Rowe said. “But the way we are positioned now in this dynamic threat environment has given me guidance to say, you know what, we need to look at what our methodology is.”
There are five separate investigations into the Secret Service by the House, Senate, FBI, Homeland Security, and by the Secret Service itself after the Trump shooting.
Another security failure means those investigations will be expanding.
The pressure is building to make major reforms to the Secret Service after the latest assassination attempt against Trump.
