Former Secret Service agents weigh in on political threats in 2025

While the attempt to assassinate 2024 against President Donald Trump at Butler, Pennsylvania, has resulted in a host of changes to increase the security practices of the secret service, the agency has worked for this in the era of unprecedented threats against the President, according to the former secret service agents.

According to experts, Trump has faced a pile of dangers, from violent extremists supported by proxy groups, motivating domestic actors to incite violence amid political rhetoric.

“No US President has been in so much danger to violence,” Bill Gauge, who served as a secret service special agent during the administration of President George W. Bush and Barack Obama, on Fox News Digital Wednesday. “The threat to President Trump is the greatest threat that any president has ever faced.”

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Twenty-year-old gunman Thomas Mathew miscreants set fire to Trump from a roof during the rally-one of the eight bullets grazed Trump’s ear. In addition to injuring two people, the gunman shot and killed the Corey Complete, who attended the rally by a 50 -year -old firefighter, father and husband.

Months later, another person was arrested and accused of attempting to kill Trump at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach in Florida. Both incidents are under investigation.

Political rhetoric from the left side that paints Trump as a threat to democracy, is dangerous and can provide fodder for political fundamentalists, to assume that killing the President is the way to save the country – the potentially pioneer said Gauz, a pioneering at the attempt to murder.

Other factors contributing to increased danger levels include policies related to immigration or funding cuts from newly constructed government proficiency (DOGE), which are unpopular with Left, as well as hostile proxy groups supported by actors such as Iran, who oppose Trump, said Gauz said.

“This increases the risk of danger on Trump,” Gauge said. “Perhaps there are dozens and dozens of danger every day, simply threatens the threats of the insider, or within our own limits that the secret service has to be run down.”

In particular, Gauge pointed out the comments of leaders such as the Democratic California village Gavin Newsom, who gave an address to the nation in June, where he claimed that “there is an attack under democracy,” thousands of National Guard soldiers and hundreds of marines of the Trump administration to respond to the latching riots instead of the federal riots to respond to the women’s riots in the golden state.

Gauge said in an email to Fox News Digital in June, “Someone is currently reading the quotes of Newsom, who wishes to harm President Trump.” “It depends on the USSS to stop them. Hopefully people who harm the President will not slip through the rift.”

A newsmom spokesperson did not immediately respond to the request of the comment from Fox News Digital.

Trump is not the only subject that is a possible goal for politically inspired violence.

Attacks against federal immigration officials are increasing and a gunman set fire to border patrol agents on Monday in an annex in McLeen, Texas. The authorities have not yet identified a motive.

However, MPs have not made their words on Trump’s immigration agenda. In June, rape. Pramila Jaipur, D-Wash.

Rape Michael Guest, R-Mis., Who oversee the sub-committee of the House Homeland Security Committee on Border Security and Enforcement, said in a statement to Fox News Digital on Wednesday that “anti-radical law enforcement rhetoric” has inspired an increase in violence against federal immigration officials.

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Meanwhile, threats change, as they create additional challenges for security forces such as secret service as adaptation.

Although Secret Service is taking action to increase its safety measures, the agency still “faces a lot of weaknesses, which is looking at the growing complexity and sophistication of the dangers,” Tim Miller, who worked as a secret service agent during the administration of President George HW Bush and Bill Clinton, said on Wednesday in an email.

Miller said, “The FBI has consistently warned of domestic violent extremists, which is a major concern.”

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While Miller portrayed Butler as a “Wake-up” call for secret service and said that the incident is accelerating the agency’s ability to handle the dangers, there is still a lot of work that should be done, he said.

Miller said, “Secret service is still playing a catch-up when it comes to adopting important technology-especially safe communication, drone monitoring and real-time intelligence tools,” Miller said. “These are not luxuries; they are important for modern protective operations.”

A bipartisan house task force, who investigated the attack, found that the attempted murder was “to be stopped”, and determined that different mistakes were not a separate incident.

At the top of the list of mistakes, the report identified that the Secret Service did not secure the “high -risk area” next to the rally, American Glass Research (AGR) ground and building complex. Failure to secure the region “eventually allows miscreants to avoid law enforcement, climb on the roof of the Agri Complex and cross the open fire.”

Other defects were found by the Task Force that along with various technology and communication breakdown, handing over advance planning roles to inexperienced secret service personnel.

The House Task Force said in its report, “In addition, the information about the relevant threat known by the intelligence community members did not increase for the prominent personnel working in the rally.”

As a result, the agency has led a series of reforms.

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According to Ronald Rowe, acting director of former Secret Service, Butler, Pennsylvania included immediate change in the agency, expanding the use of drones for monitoring purposes, and involving more counter-drain techniques to reduce kinetic attacks from other drones.

The agency also overhale the difference between its radio communication network and secret service personnel and state and local law enforcement officers, Rowe asked MPs on a bipartisan house task force investigating the murder attempt in December 2024. Updates to these radio communications are an integrated change, which could not take an integrated system, which did not do once.

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Rowe also told the MPs that the Secret Service was aiming to target its staffing in the next year, and had put more special agents in Trump’s security details. Rowe said that for the secret service in the Stopgap Expenditure Bill in September 2024, the Congress will move the Congress to the Congress approved for the secret service to rent 1,000 new agents and officers to some of the additional $ 231 million in the additional $ 231 million.

Some other changes are in the pipeline, including the construction of an accurate replica of the White House. Historically, agents have trained at their Atlanta Film Studio using Tyler Perry’s White House replication.

Secret Service Director Sean Curan said in an interview on Fox News “My View with Lara Trump” in April that the agency is working with The White House, which is an acre center in 500 acres in Laurel, Maryland, to set up such a building at James J. Rauli Training Center.

“To train our officers and agents properly, they have to see what it is in the White House.” “This is an important complex to know. There are lots of ins and outs, and the local firefighting department is something simple, showing to help with fire, and they need to know where they are going.”

Overall, the Congress’s oversight bodies issued around 50 recommendations for the secret service after the attempt to murder, including plans for better radio communication and events. The agency said on Thursday that it has executed 21 of those recommendations, and is in the process of implementing 16 others.

The Secret Service said in a news release on Thursday, “The reforms made last year are just the beginning, and the agency will continue to assess its operations, review the recommendations and make additional changes as required.”