Secret Service Denies Diverting Resources to Jill Biden

Source: Newsweek

Published Jul 15, 2024 at 2:14 AM EDT


The U.S. Secret Service has denied diverting resources away from protecting former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally where he was the target of an assassination attempt, in order to protect first lady Jill Biden. Susan Crabtree of RealClearPolitics reported on social media that unnamed sources told her resources were diverted away from Trump to protect the first lady, who was also campaigning in Pennsylvania on Saturday.

"This is the problem that my Secret Sources have cited: Secret Services resources were diverted to Jill Biden's event and away from Trump's because they followed agency protocol applying to Trump as a former president, according to two sources within the Secret Service community," she wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

"There were also many supplemental agents from different field officers (not Trump's regular detail) providing security at the rally because Trump's regular detail has been overworked (some working seven days straight), and only two counter-snipers... Who made the decision to divert the resources to Jill Biden's event?"

Anthony Guglielmi, chief of communications for the Secret Service, responded to Crabtree's post, saying it was false. "We did not divert resources from FPOTUS Trump & protection models don't work that way," Guglielmi wrote.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/secret-service-divert-trump-jill-biden-denial-1925058