US politicians demanding Secret Service answers after Donald Trump assassination attempt
US politicians demanding Secret Service answers after Donald Trump assassination attempt Donald Trump was still receiving treatment from a failed assassination attempt when senior Republican politicians started demanding answers from the US Secret Service. Tasked with keeping the former president safe, the elite security agency's failure to prevent Mr Trump being shot in the ear at a public rally has left its senior leaders facing congressional questions. There have been no shortage of attacks and threats against US politicians and their families in recent years but an attempted assassination on a presidential candidate under Secret Service protection offers the darkest moment for the agency in decades. What is the Secret Service? Just hours before his own assassination, president Abraham Lincoln signed the paperwork to establish the Secret Service in 1865. Initially tasked with combating currency counterfeiting, the Secret Service took on protecting the US president after the a