Trump promotes agent who rushed onstage after shots fired at Butler rally to lead Secret Service

President Donald Trump has picked Sean Curran, one of the agents who rushed onstage during the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, to head the US Secret Service (USSS).

Trump wrote in a Truth Social post, "It is my great honor to appoint Sean Curran as the next Director of the United States Secret Service. Sean is a Great Patriot, who has protected my family over the past few years, and that is why I trust him to lead the Brave Men and Women of the United States Secret Service."



He later added, "Sean has distinguished himself as a brilliant leader, who is 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. He proved his fearless courage when he risked his own life to help save mine from an assassin’s bullet in Butler, Pennsylvania. I have complete and total confidence in Sean to make the United States Secret Service stronger than ever before."

The president highlighted Curran's 23 years in the Secret Service in the statement as well as touted his previous experience as the assistant special agent in charge of the Presidential Protective Division during Trump's first term in office.

Curran was one of the several agents who rushed onstage to protect Trump has Thomas Matthew Crooks took several shots at the then-presidential candidate, missing a kill shot by mere millimeters. Corey Comperatore, a retired firefighter in the crowd behind Trump, was killed.

The USSS was heavily criticized following the assassination attempt, due to multiple security failures that allowed for Crooks to get on a rooftop the weapon and Kimberly Cheatle, the head of the USSS at the time, resigned following a congressional hearing on the matter.