President Biden Orders Secret Service to Step Up Security for Donald Trump After Shooting

Donald Trump's security illustration by Secret Service. (Wikimedia Commons/DoD/Navy/Petty Officer 2nd Class Dominique A. Pineiro)

JAKARTA - US President Joe Biden said he instructed the Secret Service to take necessary measures to ensure the security of former President Donald Trump after the assassination attempt.

"Mr. Trump, as a former president and the Republican nominee, has received a higher level of security, and I have been consistent in my direction to the Secret Service to provide him with every resource, capability, and protective measure necessary to ensure his continued safety," President Biden said, adding that he had a phone call with Trump on Saturday night, reported TASS, July 15.

Trump was wounded in the ear in a shooting at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, in an attack that is now being investigated as an assassination attempt. The attacker was shot dead and law enforcement officials said they had not identified a motive. The shooting killed one person and injured two others.

President Biden said Sunday he ordered Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle "to review all security measures, all security measures, for the Republican National Convention."

"I have directed an independent review of the national security at yesterday's rally to assess what exactly happened. And I will share the results of that independent review with the American people," President Biden said, quoted by CNN.

The FBI is investigating the shooting at Donald Trump's campaign as a possible domestic terrorism attack and murder.

Previously, President Biden condemned the shooting of Trump, prayed for his rival in the 2024 US Presidential Election, emphasized that there is no place for violence in Uncle Sam's country, in a post on his social media account.