Biden: ‘Secret Service needs help’ after assassination attempt on Trump

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President Joe Biden said Monday that the U.S. Secret Service needs more personnel to do its job after an apparent second assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

“One thing I want to make clear is that the (secret) services need more help, and I think Congress should respond to their needs,” Biden told reporters at the White House.

“I think we may need more staff.”

Biden added that “thank God the president is OK” after Sunday’s incident in which the Secret Service opened fire on a gunman, who was later arrested, at Trump’s golf course in Florida.

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