Former President Donald Trump told Fox News host Jesse Watters over the weekend that the Secret Service never warned him that agents had identified a threat at his Butler, Pa., rally last week ahead of the unsuccessful assassination attempt against him.

At one point during the interview, Watters asked, “No one told you not to take the stage?” — to which Trump responded: “No, nobody mentioned it. Nobody said there was a problem. And I would have waited for 15. They could have said, let’s wait for 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 5 minutes, something. Nobody said I think that was a mistake.”

He added: How did somebody get on that roof? And why wasn’t he reported? Because people saw that he was on the roof. You had Trumpers screaming. The woman in the red shirt, she was screaming. And there’s a man on the roof. And then other people said, “There’s a man on the roof who’s got a gun.” And that was quite a bit before I walked onto the stage. So you would have thought somebody would have done something about it.”

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President Trump says the Secret Service DIDN’T warn him before the assassination attempt, even though the shooter was spotted well before he got onstage.

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— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) July 21, 2024

The Washington Post, meanwhile, reported that Secret Service officials repeatedly denied fTrump’s security detail’s requests for additional resources prior to the July 13 assassination attempt.

According to the Post, for at least two years before this deadly incident, Trump’s security detail was denied resources, including counter-sniper teams. This included a 2023 appearance in Pickens, South Carolina, where several buildings surrounded Trump’s stage.

“It’s just true — we don’t have the resources to secure him [Trump] like we did when he was president,” one official told the outlet, adding that Trump’s detail, on the day of the attack, was competing for resources with the Republican National Convention, an event involving first lady Jill Biden, and the advance party for an event that will be attended by President Joe Biden in Austin, Texas.