⚡️The US Secret Service has admitted that it did not conduct a preliminary search of the golf club grounds where the second assassination attempt on former US leader and presidential candidate Donald Trump took place, the New York Times writes.
"The Secret Service did not search the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Sunday before former President Donald Trump arrived to play there, an admission that has thrust the already-under-pressure agency back into the spotlight two months after a similar episode in Pennsylvania," the publication said.
According to acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe, quoted in the newspaper, Trump was not supposed to go to the golf club on September 15. "Rowe said the Republican presidential candidate's official schedule did not include a visit to the golf course," the newspaper notes. Rowe did not specify whether he meant that Secret Service agents did not have time to search the course, the newspaper writes. The newspaper also points out that, according to the FBI, the suspect in the attempted assassination was unhindered near the golf course for almost 12 hours before he opened fire.