Trump was 'one door away' from danger, GOP lawmakers says as he demands Secret Service explanation
EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump was "one door away" from danger at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, a GOP lawmaker said, as he demands answers from the Secret Service over...
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EXCLUSIVE : President Donald Trump was "one door away" from danger at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, a GOP lawmaker said, as he demands answers from the Secret Service over what he described as a major security lapse. House Homeland Security Committee member Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., who previously investigated security failures at the Butler, Pa., rally where Trump was targeted, said the latest incident raises similar concerns about gaps in Secret Service protection. Gimenez, who examined the Butler site firsthand, told Fox News Digital that security at the Washington Hilton — where the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was held and where President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981 — showed troubling vulnerabilities as well. Gimenez said things have changed since then in some positive ways, as crowds can’t regularly get as close to a president as John Hinckley Jr. was able to when he attempted to kill the president, reportedly to impress Jodie Foster. SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR CURRAN 'CONFIDENT' THE AGENCY WILL SOLVE FAILED TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS "Mr. Brady got injured pretty severely — but it was a long time ago and things tend to kind of fade away into history and from memory. So I am not sure [of an apples-to-apples comparison]," he said, pivoting back to examining any "glaring holes" in the security posture at Trump’s event. "If there were, why, and why weren't they caught? And who is responsible for that? And does the Secret Service have the training needed in order to account for and to make [adjustments]." He questioned whether the Secret Service has the training and preplanning needed to prevent similar threats. Gimenez dismissed any notions that Hilton itself was liable for the breaches, saying that when a president is threatened, the onus falls on his detail. "It’s not the job of the Hilton hotel to protect the president and so again it all falls on Secret Service," he said while underlining that the rank-and-file officer…