President Trump announced Wednesday that he has chosen Sean Curran, one of the agents who rushed to the stage during the assassination attempt on Butler, Pennsylvania, to be head of the Secret Service for a second term.
“Sean is a great patriot who has protected my family over the past several years, which is why I trust him to lead the brave men and women of the United States Secret Service,” the president told Truth Social. I wrote this in a post.
Trump, 78, touted Curran's 23 years of experience in the Secret Service and his work as assistant special agent in charge of the presidential protection division during his first term.
In that role, the president said, Mr. Curran “had direct supervision and responsibility for multiple wards and enhanced my residential security plan.”
President Trump added, “Sean has emerged as an outstanding leader capable of directing and leading operational security planning for some of the most complex special security incidents in the history of our nation and the world.” he added. “He proved his fearless courage when he risked his life to save mine from an assassin's bullet in Butler, Pennsylvania.”
Curran was among several people piled on top of Trump after a gunman opened fire on the then-presumptive Republican candidate during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last July. He was one of the operatives.
In the iconic photo of the 45th president covered in blood and raising his fist in the air under the American flag, just after a would-be assassin's bullet sliced through his ear, he was seen wearing dark sunglasses as President Trump. He's standing immediately on the left.
“I have full confidence in Sean to make the U.S. Secret Service stronger than ever,” Trump wrote.
Butler came under fire over a number of security failures that nearly led to his assassination, including not covering the roof that Thomas Matthew Crooks used to point a rifle at Trump and the crowd. The Secret Service came under intense scrutiny.
Former Secretary of the Secret Service Kimberly Cheatle resigned in late July following the Butler shooting, and was replaced by Acting Secretary Ronald Lowe.
Trump, 78, was the subject of a second assassination attempt last September when Ryan Wesley Routh allegedly hid with a rifle in the bushes outside Trump's Palm Beach, Florida, golf course.
Secret Service agents thwarted the plot after a would-be assassin spotted President Trump playing golf, but the agency was criticized for not securing the area around the Republican candidate's property ahead of his golf outing. exposed to.
