Trump has 'presidential level' Secret Service protection, lawmakers told

Former President Trump had presidential-level information successful spot erstwhile officers foiled an attempt connected his life past weekend, the U.S. Secret Service told lawmakers connected Wednesday.

The House task unit probing the July 13 shooting astatine a Trump rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania, received a briefing from USSS aft the incidental astatine the ex-president’s play people connected Sunday.

During that briefing, officials told House lawmakers that Trump had astir each of the aforesaid protections afforded to President Biden astatine the clip of the 2nd attempt. It had been enactment successful spot aft the July 13 shooting, wherever Trump was injured and 1 attendee died.

"He had the aforesaid sum arsenic sitting president arsenic helium had past Sunday. And we're talking chiefly contiguous with Secret Service," task unit Chairman Mike Kelly, R-Pa., told reporters aft the briefing.

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The Trump assassination effort task force, led by Reps. Mike Kelly and Jason Crow, is present investigating Sunday's incident. (Getty Images)

"I came distant contiguous feeling that the Secret Service connected this past Sunday was treating it the aforesaid mode arsenic erstwhile President Trump was a sitting president."

Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., the apical Democrat connected the panel, told reporters, "It’s our knowing that aft July 13 that President Biden ordered the Secret Service to supply the aforesaid level of information to some Vice President [Kamala] Harris and to erstwhile President Trump that would beryllium a statesmanlike level security, commensurate with what the president would receive, and that that information is being provided."

A spokesperson for the task unit told Fox News Digital connected Thursday that USSS told lawmakers Trump was getting extortion "commensurate" with Biden’s.

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General presumption of the fenced country adjacent the sixth spread of Trump International Golf Club successful West Palm Beach, Florida, Wednesday, September 18, 2024. The country wherever Ryan Routh is reported to person laid successful hold for erstwhile President Trump connected Sunday. (Peter Burke/Fox News Digital)

"There are a fistful of specialized assets lone the commandant and main gets, but the remainder of his extortion is astatine the aforesaid level," the spokesperson explained.

"They besides told america that his level of extortion connected Sunday was fundamentally the aforesaid arsenic it was erstwhile helium was the sitting President, galore of the assets helium had erstwhile helium was President were determination successful West Palm Beach."

Wednesday’s briefing was the archetypal for the task unit since USSS arrested 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh aft spotting him with an AK-47 successful the bushes adjacent wherever Trump was golfing astatine his West Palm Beach course.

The July 13 Trump rally shooting has already served to heighten scrutiny connected USSS, and it is prompted conversations astir whether elected officials are being sufficiently kept harmless successful today’s hyper-partisan environment.

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Acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr. of the U.S. Secret Service is being asked for answers. (Mega for Fox News Digital)

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The incidental prompted condemnations of governmental unit connected some the close and left.

The bipartisan House task force, which was initially created to absorption lone connected the July 13 shooting, is present examining some events. 

The task unit is besides seeking a briefing from the FBI connected the Sunday arrest.