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Officials scrutinizing Trump’s security arrangements

U.S. law enforcement are reassessing Trump’s security arrangements. 

Two former Secret Service agents and three senior U.S. officials told Reuters that Saturday’s event underscored some vulnerabilities, even after two assassination attempts against Trump in 2024 prompted stronger security measures. 

The officials said security personnel ​may need to expand the protective perimeter around the president at large public venues, even if that leads to public inconvenience.

Bill Gage, who served on the Secret Service’s Counter Assault Team for six years and is now executive protection director for the SafeHaven Security Group, said the Secret Service “is going to have to find a way to better secure ⁠large hotels that may inconvenience the hotelgoers and the hotel.”

Some officials noted the security perimeter at Trump’s rallies is often much more expansive than the one established on Saturday.

Don Mihalek, a former senior Secret Service agent who has worked previous correspondents’ dinners at the Washington Hilton, said securing the sprawling site has long posed challenges.

With files from Reuters