Two days after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, the question arises as to how the shooter was able to get so close to the former president? Is his bodyguard to blame?
Tight-fitting dark suit, white shirt, all-weather sunglasses: the men and women of the Secret Service keep children’s ideas about agents alive – and in the best case, the US president.
A few seconds after shots are fired at a campaign event in the swing state of Pennsylvania and the small town of Butler feels like the center of the planet, they are with Donald Trump, throwing themselves at him, forming a human shield. It quickly becomes clear: their protégé has been shot and is bleeding from his ear. But he is alive. Mission complete?
Not at all, say experts, politicians from both parties and former agents. It should never have come to this, they say. What is the truth behind the criticism?
Source: Stern
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