The Secret Service has acknowledged that it denied Donald Trump an increase in security before the attack he suffered. This information comes 24 hours before the appearance before Congress of the director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, who will have to explain the security failures that allowed the attack.

Security breaches that were never communicated to Trump, as he admitted in response to a question from ‘Fox News’: “No. Nobody told me (not to go on stage). Nobody said there was a problem and that we could have waited 15 minutes.“I think it was a mistake.”

Because a week later there are still many unknowns to be resolved and it is increasingly clear that security failures allowed Crooks to act. “In an act like this, prevention and detection failed, but above all coordination and communication failed,” says Juan Manuel Hueso, criminologist and security director.

An hour before the rally, the 20-year-old He is caught there on camera wandering around alone and without a specific address. A sensitive area where, according to the ‘NBC’ network, he had also been the day before and where, according to ‘CNN’, He even flew a drone on the day of the shooting.

AND, Ten minutes into the event, the snipers had already been informed of the suspect’s existence.But despite the warnings, no one stops Trump from going up to the stage where they are going to try to assassinate him at 6:02. Seven minutes into the speech, with Trump already speaking, several witnesses notice.

“There’s someone on the roof, look. He’s lying down, can you see him?” says a witness. The alarm is raised and an officer even tries to reach Crooks without success: “Police! He’s got a gun! He’s got a gun!” And at 6:12, they try to assassinate the former president.

The snipers are now in action, but Crooks has only had time to shoot three times, hitting Trump in the ear, but he escapes with a slight movement of his head.