President Trump announced Wednesday that he has selected Sean Curran, one of the agents who took the stage during the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt, to serve as director of the Secret Service in his second term.
“Sean is a great patriot who has protected my family over the past few years, which is why I trust him to lead the brave men and women of the United States Secret Service,” the president wrote in a post on Truth Social.
Trump (78 years old) praised Curran's 23 years of experience in the Secret Service and his work as assistant special agent in charge of the Presidential Protection Division during his first term.
The president noted that in this role, Curran had “direct supervision and responsibility over several protégés, and enhanced security plans for my residences.”
“Sean has distinguished himself as a brilliant leader, 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,” Trump added. “He demonstrated his intrepid courage when he risked his life to help save mine from an assassin's bullet in Butler, Pennsylvania.”
Curran was one of several agents who attacked Trump last July after a gunman opened fire on the then-presumptive Republican nominee during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
He stands directly to Trump's left, wearing dark sunglasses, in the avatar of the bloodied 45th president raising his fist in the air under the American flag just moments after the would-be assassin's bullet pierced his ear.
“I have complete and complete confidence in Sean to make the United States Secret Service stronger than ever,” Trump wrote.
The Secret Service came under intense scrutiny in the wake of Butler's shooting because of numerous security failures leading up to the near-assassination, including not covering the roof that Thomas Matthew Crooks used to aim his gun at Trump and others in the crowd.
Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Chittle resigned in late July after Butler's shooting and was replaced by acting Director Ronald Rowe.
Trump (78 years old) was the target of a second assassination attempt last September, when Ryan Wesley Roth hid in the bushes with a rifle outside the Trump golf course in Palm Beach, Florida.
A Secret Service agent discovered the would-be assassin while Trump was golfing and foiled the plot, but the agency faced criticism for not securing the perimeter of the property before the GOP candidate's golf outing.
