He and other senior officials of the US Government continue to travel around the world. As 48 hours passed after the attack was thwarted by the Secret Service, the questions multiply. And one of them reaches, precisely, this elite unit.
The Secret Service offers its protection to the president of the United States, the vice president, the rest of the secretaries and diplomats. But his actions on Saturday night have raised doubts, especially in some networks always prone to conspiracy theories. For once it has been Trump the one who has insisted on clarifying it.
After the first shots were heard, members of the Secret Service appeared in the room to protect the senior officials. But in the case of the vice president, they directly took him out of the place, even pulling him. Immediately, JD Vance was protected and out of target.
However, Donald Trump was not evacuated in such a hasty manner. Between the exit of one and the other 20 seconds passedas CBS reporters published Several Secret Service agents launched themselves to protect, with their own bodies, those of the president and first lady of the United States. , to the program 60 Minutes.
When recounting the events of the shooting, Trump blames himself and his own curiosity for the slowdown of the emergency operation.
“I wanted to see what was happening. I wasn’t making it easy for him.. I wanted to see what was happening. And by then We started to realize that maybe it was a serious problema different problem, a serious one, and different from the normal noise of a dance hall,” he admitted in this regard.
Removing any possible controversy over the actions of the Secret Service, the president assures that “he was surrounded by great people. And I probably made them act a little slower.. I told them ‘wait a minute, wait a minute.'”
However, there was a time when The agents made the decision to evacuate to the 47th president and first lady, despite Trump’s ‘curiosity’. At that point, security members asked both of them to lie down on the ground. According to Trump, Secret Service agents repeatedly told the president and first lady Melania Trump to get on the ground.
“I started walking. And They told me ‘please get down, please get down to the ground’. So I went down and so did the first lady,” the president recalls. It was then that the agents took the presidential couple to a safe place, as they did immediately afterwards with other members of the administration.
