The admission comes at a time when the Secret Service is under increased scrutiny, especially given the high stakes involved in protecting former and current political leaders. 

US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned on Tuesday, a day after facing intense scrutiny from a Congressional hearing regarding the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. The attack occurred during a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, when a gunman fired at Trump from a rooftop.

In reality, the shooting, while horrible, does not come as a total surprise in the context of American history or even in the current presidential campaign.

That image of Trump, bloodied with a raised fist, could certainly come to frame his entire campaign and rally support behind him.

In a powerful address from the Oval Office, President Joe Biden responded to the recent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Biden emphasised that violence should never be accepted in American politics.

Unprecedented security cover for event in the aftermath of a failed assassination attempt on its presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump.

The FBI on Sunday identified the gunman as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. Crooks, armed with a lightweight semiautomatic AR-style rifle, was killed by Secret Service personnel. He fired multiple shots at the stage from an “elevated position outside of the rally venue.”

Former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday said he was shot at during his rally in Pennsylvania and a bullet pierced the upper part of his right ear.

PM and leader of Opposition express concern over shootout in which former US President Trump was injured.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the US Secret Service are working with law enforcement partners to investigate the life-threatening attack on former US president Donald Trump on Saturday, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N Mayorkas said.

“I plan on talking to him shortly, I hope, when I get back to the telephone," he said. “Jill and I are grateful to the Secret Service for getting him to safety. There’s no place for this kind of violence in America. We must unite as one nation to condemn it,” Joe Biden said in a statement.

“Trump is fine and is being checked out at a local medical facility,” Steven Cheung, Trump spokesperson said in a statement amidst a report of possible gunshots aimed at him during his election rally in Pennsylvania.