MILWAUKEE—A lawyer, media consultant, and surrogate for former President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign blamed the Secret Service for “intentional” decisions that she said enabled the shooter to wound Trump and kill at least one other person.
“I think the intentional decision was that we didn’t have enough Secret Service,” Mehek Cooke told “The Daily Signal Podcast” in an interview Tuesday at the Republican National Convention. “The intentional decision was that we had fill-in [Secret Service] officers that were not trained to protect a former president.”
(Secret Service relied on Pennsylvania police to survey and secure nearby structures, The Washington Post reported.)
She called all these decisions “intentional” and said they resulted in Trump’s coming within “close to a half an inch” of being assassinated.
“All of this is…
