Sessions to Newsmax: Secret Service Must Protect Trump, ‘Just as We Do Harris’

The Secret Service needs to develop “that envelope around [former] President Trump, just as we do Vice President [Kamala] Harris to avoid” future assassination attempts like the one Sunday in Florida because the “entire country is what would come unraveled” should a perpetrator be successful, Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, told Newsmax.

Trump was playing golf Sunday when U.S. Secret Service agents protecting him fired at a man pointing an AK-style rifle with a scope.

Local authorities said the gunman, Ryan Wesley Routh, was 400 to 500 yards away from Trump and hiding in shrubbery while the former president was playing a round of golf at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.

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