Secret Service Director Kimberly Seittle to Testify at Trump Rally

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Seittle is scheduled to testify before the House Oversight Committee on Monday morning, a week after the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, the GOP nominee for president. The hearing will mark his first testimony before Congress in nearly three decades with the agency.

According to his prepared remarks, Seittle is expected to take responsibility again for security failures at Trump’s July 13 campaign rally in Pennsylvania. A gunman allegedly gained access to an unsecured roof, where he opened fire with an AR-style rifle, wounding Trump, killing one person and critically wounding two others.

“The Secret Service’s mission is to protect our nation’s leaders. On July 13, we failed,” Seittle plans to testify, according to a copy of his prepared remarks. “As director of the United States Secret Service, I take full responsibility for any security lapses.”

He said the agency is fully cooperating with the FBI’s criminal investigation into the shooting and additional reviews by Congress, the Homeland Security Department of Inspector General and an independent bipartisan panel announced Sunday.

“We have to learn from what happened, and I will move heaven and earth to make sure something like July 13th doesn’t happen again,” he plans to testify. “Thinking about what we should have done differently is never far from my thoughts.”

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