Secret Service 'solely responsible' for security when Trump shot, Director admits as J.D. Vance due to address Republican National Convention

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By Dailymail.Com Political Reporters In Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Published: 13:54 BST, 17 July 2024 | Updated: 13:59 BST, 17 July 2024

The head of the U.S. Secret Service has admitted the agency was 'solely responsible' implementing security when Donald Trump was shot by a would-be assassin.

Director Kimberly Cheatle had previously said local law enforcement was responsible for the area from which gunman Thomas Crooks, 20, hit the president with a bullet on Saturday at a rally in Pennsylvania.

Trump is now in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the third day of the Republican National Convention where his running mate J.D. Vance is due to speak.

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Secret Service 'solely responsible' for Trump security when he was shot, chief says

The head of the U.S. Secret Service has admitted the agency was 'solely responsible' implementing security when Donald Trump was shot by a would-be assassin.

Director Kimberly Cheatle had previously said local law enforcement had responsibility for the building from which gunman Thomas Crooks, 20, hit the president with a bullet on Saturday at a rally in Pennsylvania.

Cheatle has now told CNN:

At that particular site, we divided up areas of responsibility but the Secret Service is totally responsible for the design and implementation and the execution of the site.

What I was trying to stress was that we just divided up areas of responsibility and they provided support to those areas

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle speaks during a Republican National Convention security news conference Thursday, June 6, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)