Secret Service Director Sean Curran expressed his confidence in the investigation into the assassination attempts against President Donald Trump.
Trump was the target of two assassination attempts just months ahead of the November election. The head of the Secret Service resigned following the first attempt, but the details of how these would-be assassins got so close are still shrouded in mystery.
“I am confident,” Curran said when asked about the investigation on Fox News’s Hannity Wednesday. “I’m confident in the men and women at Secret Service, our partners on the Hill. The [homeland security] secretary and the cooperation from everyone else. We’ve really come together, and I’m confident in the process.”
His comments come on the heels of a recruitment ad for the Secret Service that aired during the Super Bowl. Michael Bay, of Transformers fame, directed the ad as a “friend” to Curran.
Curran was among the Secret Service officers with Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a bullet struck Trump in the ear. Since his appointment to head the agency, Curran said he is taking a new look at its intelligence.
“I brought in an outside expert from the intelligence community to take a look at our intelligence apparatus,” Curran said. “I feel that strongly about what we are doing and where I want to take our intelligence divisions to — and that’s why I brought a true pro from the intelligence community to take a look at that and advise me on how we can do things differently and build more relationships with the ICE community. It’s that important.”
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The attack in Butler was the first against a president since President Ronald Reagan in 1981. At the time, Trump was days away from becoming the Republican nominee for president and had been on the campaign trail for about 18 months. A shooter killed one and injured three, including Trump. Corey Comperatore, 50, a volunteer fire chief, husband, and father, was the single fatality.
Secret Service apprehended another suspect, weeks later, Ryan Routh, who was armed on a golf course where Trump was playing. Routh has since pleaded not guilty to one count of attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate and four firearm offenses. In December, prosecutors added another attempted murder charge because when Routh fled law enforcement, traffic was shut down, and an accident nearly killed a young female passenger.
