Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) “It’s so unfortunate that in these times we have to deal with things like this, but we do,” said retired Buffalo FBI Agent Holly Hubert, who spent 25 years with the agency and is now CEO of GlobalSecurity IQ.
“It’s important,” she said, “to not be emotional, stay logical and allow law enforcement to collect the facts.”
Since the first assassination attempt in Butler County, Pennsylvania in July, Trump is still operating under the same level of security that a presidential candidate would have, which is less than that of the President of the United States.
Hubert said it is time to revisit Secret Service protection for a sitting president and a presidential nominee. President Biden on Monday also signaled that The Secret Service “needs more help.”
Hubert said too many questions were not asked after the first security scare, including, how many agents does the Secret Service have? And what are they doing?
“If I were head of the Secret Service,” she said, “I would assess where resources are allocated and assign more agents to presidential candidates. Now that Trump is a nominee, there are two people to protect in the race.
There should be an assessment of where resources are assigned at the highest level.”