Just two weeks after surviving an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally, former President Trump was scheduled to speak in Nashville, Tennessee over the weekend, but the speech was temporarily postponed by the Secret Service due to unrelated security concerns, according to reports.
Trump was preparing to take the stage at the 2024 Bitcoin Conference at the Music City Center on Saturday afternoon when Secret Service agents made him wait as two credentialed and screened attendees were removed from the venue for not following proper entry procedures, according to reports. New York Post And Fox 17.
The former president was instructed by Secret Service agents to wait to take the stage for the keynote speech until their whereabouts were known.
A Secret Service spokesman told both media outlets that there had never been a threat against Trump.
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Donald Trump during a speech at the 2024 Bitcoin Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. (Getty Images)
“It was determined that these individuals had no protective interest and posed no threat to the former president,” the spokesman said.
According to the New York Post, the pair were discovered and removed from the event and questioned by police, but neither has been charged in connection with the incident.
The pair were stopped at the first checkpoint but did not pass a second inspection, the report said.
It remains unclear how they managed to get through the inspection.
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Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday, July 27, 2024. (Getty Images)
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This comes after Trump survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, when a gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, opened fire on the crowd, killing one spectator and wounding another. Trump suffered an ear injury during the incident.
The Pennsylvania shooting has sparked bipartisan criticism of security lapses by the Secret Service and has lawmakers seeking to investigate how Crooks managed to climb to the roof of a building outside the rally’s perimeter and fire his gun within sight of the former president.
Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned amid security lapses.
