The US Secret Service had identified the rooftop from which former president and future Republican candidate for the White House, Donald Trump, was assassinated as a potential security risk days ago, according to NBC. The agents who prepared the security device days before the Butler (Pennsylvania) rally were aware of the risk that this building could entailtwo sources close to the Secret Service admitted to NBC.

The roof belonged to a warehouse located about 135 meters from where Trump He was going to speak at the rally, but outside the event’s security perimeter. The Secret Service has said that security at that building was the responsibility of local authorities.although the county attorney has denied that version.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who heads the Secret Service, admitted Monday that the incident was a security “failure”. In a post on social media, Republican Senator Ted Cruz called for the resignation of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle.

For its part, Republican Congressman James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, announced that he will subpoena Cheatle to testify before the Legislature next week, once the end of the Republican National Convention.

Cheatle announced in a statement today that on Saturday, after the assassination attempt, he ordered changes to Trump’s security detail. Trump was shot in the ear during a rally on Saturday before Secret Service snipers shot dead the shooter, a 20-year-old whose motives remain unclear. The young man fired from a rooftop near the rally moments after several people alerted security services to his suspicious presence.

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