Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on July 15 said that the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump “cannot happen,” adding that President Joe Biden has initiated an independent review into the matter.
When pressed further, he told CNN, “When I say that something like this cannot happen, we are speaking of a failure. We are going to analyze through an independent review how that occurred, why it occurred and make recommendations and findings to make sure it doesn’t happen again. I couldn’t be clearer.”
In a separate interview with ABC News, Mr. Mayorkas, whose agency oversees the Secret Service, said that “a direct line of sight like that to the former president should not occur,” referring to the now-deceased shooter’s targeting of former President Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday….