Sean Curran, Who Rushed To Aid Trump During Assassination Bid, Named US Secret Service Director
Sean Curran has been appointed the new Director of the US Secret Service, as Donald Trump praised his leadership and courage during an assassination attempt on him at a rally in Pennsylvania.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday appointed Sean Curran as the next Director of the United States Secret Service. Curran has worked as a Secret Service agent and was among several agents who surrounded Trump as a gunman in Butler, Pennsylvania, opened fire on the then-candidate, leaving him with a bloodied ear.
He was identified by US media as the man in sunglasses to the right of Trump in a series of iconic photos showing the Republican raising a defiant fist as he is escorted offstage with blood trickling down his face.
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The development was confirmed by the US President via a post on Truth Social.
“It is my great honor to appoint Sean Curran as the next Director of the United States Secret Service. Sean is a Great Patriot, who has protected my family over the past few years, and that is why I trust him to lead the Brave Men and Women of the United States Secret Service," Trump wrote.
“Sean has 23 years of Law Enforcement experience, starting his career in Secret Service in 2001, as a Special Agent in the Newark Field Office, where he conducted protection, intelligence, investigations, recruitment, and logistics support for the district. During my First Term, Sean served as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Presidential Protective Division, with direct oversight and responsibility of multiple protectees, and enhanced security plans for my residences," the US President added.
“Sean has distinguished himself as a brilliant leader, who is capable of directing and leading operational security plans for some of the most complex Special Security Events in the History of our Country, and the World. He proved his fearless courage when he risked his own life to help save mine from an assassin’s bullet in Butler, Pennsylvania. I have complete and total confidence in Sean to make the United States Secret Service stronger than ever before," the post read.
Last week, Trump’s son announced that the “great patriot" would be getting the job.
Trump was grazed on his right ear when a 20-year-old gunman opened fire from a nearby rooftop while the Republican presidential candidate was holding a campaign rally in Butler on July 13.
One person in the audience was killed and the gunman, Thomas Crooks, was shot dead by a Secret Service sniper.
Meanwhile, an independent panel called for a sweeping shake-up of the Secret Service following what it described as its “historic" failure to prevent the July assassination attempt, news agency AFP reported.
“The Secret Service has become bureaucratic, complacent, and static," the four members of the bipartisan review panel said in a letter to then-Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that accompanied their 52-page report.
“The Secret Service as an agency requires fundamental reform to carry out its mission," they said, and without reforms, another assassination attempt such as the one that took place in Pennsylvania “can and will happen again."
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