After the potential assassination attempt on Donald Trump, U.S President, Joe Biden said that the US Secret Service “needs more help.”
“I think the Congress should respond to their needs,” Biden told reporters at the White House
“I think we may need more personnel,” he added.
Biden said that he did not yet have a full report on Sunday’s incident at Trump’s Florida golf course and was thankful that the former President was okay.
Biden is not alone in calling for the Secret Service to be beefed up in response to the two attempted assassinations of Donald Trump.
Democratic Congressman, Ro Khanna made a similar demand in a post on X.
“Two assassination attempts in 60 days on a former President & the Republican nominee is unacceptable,” he asserted.
He added, “The Secret Service must come to Congress tomorrow, tell us what resources are needed to expand the protective perimeter, and lets allocate it in a bipartisan vote the same day.”
In an interview early on Monday, September 16, 2024, Mike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, also called for the Secret Service to increase security resources deployed to protect Donald Trump.
“Today, President Trump needs the most coverage of anyone. He’s the most attacked. He’s the most threatened, even probably more than when he was in the Oval Office. So, we are demanding in the House that he have every asset available.”
Mike Johnson
He also said that the panel investigating Trump’s attempted assassination in Pennsylvania in July will be holding hearings and releasing a report next week.
“And so more and more of these answers will be coming out, the final report due shortly thereafter. So good work is being done.
“There are some extraordinary members of Congress working on it around the clock, and we have to do that. It’s a top priority for the American people.”
Mike Johnson
Meanwhile, Ronald Rowe, the acting Director of the Secret Service, will be in Florida “indefinitely” as the investigation into the attempted assassination of Donald Trump continues.
Trump Campaign May ‘Take Advantage’ Of Apparent Assassination Attempt
Scott Lucas, a Professor of international politics at University College Dublin, opined that this second apparent assassination attempt on Trump is something his campaign will likely “take advantage of” like it did after the attempt in July.
“I think it’s instructive to look at what happened after the first attempt on July 13,” Lucas noted.
“And that is the Trump campaign immediately tried to take advantage of that. At that point, they were running against Joe Biden,” he stated.
In that shooting, Trump was grazed on the ear.
“You might remember the heavily bandaged ear where you even had sympathizers that were bandaging their ears as well at the Republican National Convention,” Lucas said.
Meanwhile, Trump sought to blame Kamala Harris and Joe Biden for the second apparent assassination attempt targeting him, saying in an interview that the Democrats have instigated violence by saying he was a threat to American democracy.
Both Biden and Harris made warnings of Trump’s anti-democratic leanings a key part of their pitch to voters, but in the interview, the former President linked those to his attempted assassination in Pennsylvania in July, and to the apparent second attempt in Florida.
“Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country, and they are the ones that are destroying the country – both from the inside and out,” Trump said.
Speaking of Ryan Wesley Routh, the man accused of attempting the assassination, he added, “He believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it.”
Referring to the President and Vice President, Trump said, “It is called the enemy from within. They are the real threat.”
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