Acting Secret Service director calls Trump assassination attempt a ‘mission failure’

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Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe announced Friday that his agency has nearly completed its internal review of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a rally in July and concluded that the Secret Service’s security setup for the event was destined to fail.

Rowe described the historic security lapses that led to an attempt on Trump’s life during the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, as a “mission failure.”

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