In the week since the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the security mistakes that led to the shooting have come into sharp focus, prompting Kimberly Cheatle, the head of the Secret Service, to resign. Glenn Thrush, who reports on the Justice Department for The Times, discusses what we now know about the service’s lapses that day. Guest: Glenn Thrush, a reporter on the Justice Department for The New York Times.
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In the weeks since the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the security mistakes that led to the shooting have come into sharp and shocking focus and have now cost the head of the Secret Service her job.
Today, my colleague Glenn Thrush, on the Secret Service's historic failure.
It's Wednesday, July 24.
So, Glenn, youve been reporting on the investigation into the security failures around the assassination attempt of Donald Trump.
And they were pretty catastrophic.
So much so that the head of the secret service, Kimberly Cheadle, was hauled before Congress to explain herself.
And then on Tuesday morning, she resigned to, which puts the blame pretty directly on the secret Service.
It was a monumental failure, the worst failure in the secret Service for at least 40 years, and maybe of all time.
There was just a tremendous lack of coordination between the group of secret service personnel who were tasked with protecting Donald Trump and the local authorities that the secret service works in coordination with to control the site around the perimeter of the event.
Okay, so let's unpack that.
What have we learned in the weeks since the shooting about the mistakes that led to this failure?
Quite a bit, Sabrina, and none of it was good for the secret Service and ultimately for Cheadle.
Let's start first off with how the secret Service divided the responsibility on the ground.
So the way that this was set up is that there was a perimeter, and inside that perimeter was essentially the province of the secret service.
So you can kind of think of that as the high security area.