To cooperate “fully” in the independent investigation, which aims to answer the question of how a sniper was able to be so close to the former president of the USA, pledged yesterday, Monday, the Secret Service of the country, which is under pressure after the attempt assassination of Donald Trump last Saturday.

“The question is: should they have foreseen what happened? (…) That question remains open,” said Joe Biden in an interview with a television network that was broadcast last night. But the US president praised the agents who “risked their lives” during the shooting and said he felt “safe with the Secret Service.”

A veil of mystery also still surrounds the motive of the 20-year-old attacker Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was neutralized by security forces after armed with a semi-automatic rifle fired several shots at the former president on Saturday from the roof of a building, which was only about 150 meters away from where the Republican presidential candidate was at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

Donald Trump was wounded in the attack and said a bullet “pierced” the top of his ear. The pictures of the former president with blood running down his face and his fist raised in the air have already gone down in history.

One bystander was killed and two others were seriously injured.

The Secret Service has been under increasing pressure since then, although the Democratic president has, according to his spokeswoman, confidence in its director, Kimberly Cheatle.

The Secret Service, which is tasked with protecting presidents and former presidents among other things, is working “with all local, state and federal agencies to understand what happened, how it happened, and how we can prevent it from happening again.” fact,” Chitle said in a statement.

“We understand the importance of the independent review announced yesterday by President Biden, and we will participate fully in it,” he added.

Joe Biden said on Sunday that he had ordered an “independent” investigation into the circumstances surrounding the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, who is expected to face him at the polls on November 5.

His government’s Homeland Security Minister Alejandro Mayorkas said yesterday that this investigation would begin “as soon as possible” and that it was a matter of “days”. The findings will be made public and “it is very important that this independent examination enjoys the trust of the population,” he noted.

Biden also said he asked the head of the Secret Service to review “all security measures” taken for the Republican Party convention being held in the northern US from yesterday to Thursday.

Kimberly Cheatle expressed her “confidence” in the conference security plan, which was “re-evaluated and strengthened after” Saturday’s events.

The Secret Service mainly owes an explanation after the broadcast of video of people attending the campaign rally in Pennsylvania who were surprised by the presence of the attacker on the roof and tried to alert law enforcement. According to an analysis by the Washington Post, after these first warnings from the world, 86 seconds passed until the attacker started shooting at Trump.

The CNN news network reported yesterday that the building in which the attacker was located had not been thoroughly checked by the Secret Service, which had relied, according to it, on local law enforcement to guarantee the security of that part.

Also, according to NBC News, this roof had been designated by the Secret Service as a “potentially vulnerable point.”

“You don’t have to be a security expert to see the weaknesses here,” Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, who heads the House Intelligence Committee, told CNN.

The fact that the shooter “was able to shoot when he was already located, while his location was located, is just confusing and amazing,” he noted.

Yesterday on the Truth Social platform, Donald Trump called it “imperative” that the Secret Service provide protection to another presidential candidate: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose uncle, President “JFK,” and whose father, Dem. candidate Bobby Kennedy, were assassinated.

This is what happened, according to Alejandro Mayorkas: Joe Biden ordered that Kennedy be placed under protection. “Thank you President Biden,” he shot back.