A spokesman for the Secret Service stated that local police were responsible for securing the rooftop from which the gunman attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump rested, rather than the Secret Service.
The gunman climbed onto the roof on the grounds of AGR International Inc., roughly 130 yards from where Trump spoke at a campaign rally on Saturday, before he started shooting, barely missing killing the former president, who was shot in the ear while killing rally attendee Corey Comperatore and wounding two others.
According to Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi, the agency is responsible for security within a designated perimeter around the event it is supposed to protect, The New York Times reported. He said the perimeter for Saturday’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, included the venue, the audience, and the protectee, and thus, the building from which…
