Secret Service agents didn’t see Trump shooter ‘until they heard gunshots’: Acting director

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Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe said on Tuesday that neither the Secret Service countersniper teams nor members of former President Donald Trump‘s security detail had “any knowledge” that there was a shooter with a gun on the roof.

“It is my understanding those personnel were not aware the assailant had a firearm until they heard gunshots,” Rowe said.

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