Secret Service pushes back on claim resources were diverted to Jill Biden event: 'Very wrong'

The Secret Service said allegations that its resources were diverted away from former President Trump for an event for first lady Jill Biden are inaccurate.

Questions about the Secret Service's security of the former president's campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday have been raised following the assassination attempt against him at the event.

RealClearPolitics reporter Susan Crabtree claimed on X that Secret Service sources told her that resources were diverted to Jill Biden's event and away from Trump's rally because they followed agency protocol applying to Trump as a former president. Crabtree also said there were "many supplemental agents from different field officers (not Trump's regular detail) providing security at the rally because Trump's regular detail has been overworked (some working 7 days straight), and only two counter-snipers."

But the Secret Service's chief of communications Anthony Guglielmi responded that Crabtree's claim was "very wrong."

"Susan, this is very wrong," he wrote. "We did not divert resources from FPOTUS Trump & protection models don't work that way. As far as 'field office teams' these are the candidate nominee operations teams that are added during election years for the heavy travel tempo.