Trump: I received no warning before assassination attempt
Former US President Donald Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, said on Sunday that he received no advance warning from anyone about a potential problem before his campaign rally in Pennsylvania last week, which was the scene of an assassination attempt that left him with a gunshot wound to his right ear.
"Nobody mentioned it. Nobody said there was a problem. I could have waited 15 (minutes). They could have said let's wait 15 minutes, 20 minutes, five minutes, whatever. Nobody said anything," Trump told Fox News in an interview.
"I think it was a mistake... How did someone get on that roof? Why wasn't it reported?" he added.
The New York Times reported on Sunday, citing a spokesman, that the US Secret Service said it had rejected requests from Donald Trump's security team for additional resources in the two years leading up to last week's assassination attempt.
The newspaper added that this is a retreat from previous statements by the agency in which it denied rejecting such requests submitted to the former president and Republican presidential candidate.
Five days after narrowly escaping assassination, Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president on Thursday in the November 5 elections. Trump won enough delegates during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The convention also officially nominated James D. Vance as vice president in the elections.