He Rescued Trump From One Assassination Attempt. Now He Has to Answer for Another.

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In the recent history of the Secret Service, personal relationships with a sitting president have proven reliable propellants up the agency’s ranks. President Joe Biden chose a Secret Service director in 2022 with ties to his family, Kimberly Cheatle, who had grown close to Jill Biden as an agent during Biden’s vice presidency. Cheatle resigned in the weeks after the Butler shooting.

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New hiring initiatives have included offering up to $75,000 recruitment bonuses and airing a Super Bowl ad that reportedly cost around $2 million and was made by the action-film director Michael Bay.

The ad featured the iconic photograph of Curran helping a bloodied Trump off the stage in Butler. It also included images from the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, at the same venue as last month’s press dinner: the Washington Hilton.

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