If this is what the Secret Service has become, it’s a wonder that something worse than Butler, Pa., hasn’t already happened.
That event was terrible enough, with one rally-goer killed and Donald Trump coming within an inch of losing his life.
The Secret Service Is a National Embarrassment
by Rich Lowry
This sort of ineptitude wouldn’t be tolerated by Taylor Swift’s security detail.
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Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump gestures with a bloodied face while he is assisted by U.S. Secret Service personnel after he was shot in the right ear during a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., July 13, 2024.
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Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.
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