Trump Rewards Agent Who Shielded Him in Assassination Bid With New Job
President Donald Trump just handed a huge promotion to the head of his personal security detail who shielded him from an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally last year.
Sean Curran has been appointed director of the Secret Service, Trump announced on Truth Social.
“Sean is a Great Patriot, who has protected my family over the past few years, and that is why I trust him to lead the Brave Men and Women of the United States Secret Service,” the president wrote.
Curran helped rush Trump offstage during a Butler, Pennsylvania rally last July when a gunman staged what would become the first of two failed assassination attempts on the then-Republican presidential candidate.
Trump was wounded in his right ear but avoided serious injury by just a few millimeters when he tilted his head.
Curran “proved his fearless courage when he risked his own life to help save mine from an assassin’s bullet in Butler, Pennsylvania,” Trump wrote. “I have complete and total confidence in Sean to make the United States Secret Service stronger than ever before.”
Days after the July assassination attempt, Kimberly Cheatle resigned as director of the Secret Service. She was replaced by Ronald Rowe Jr., who said he was “ashamed” of the agency’s failures during the assassination bid.
Trump said Curran has over two decades of law enforcement experience, starting his career in the Secret Service in 2001 as a special agent in the Newark Field Office. He also served under the agency’s Presidential Protective Division during the first Trump administration.
“Sean has distinguished himself as a brilliant leader, who is capable of directing and leading operational security plans for some of the most complex Special Security Events in the History of our Country, and the World,” Trump said.
As Trump’s head of security, Curran manages about 85 people, but some sources have told CNN that they were concerned Curran lacked the managerial experience to run an agency the size of the Secret Service.
