The Secret Service held up Former President Trump’s address in Nashville, Tennessee for a moment on Saturday after citing security concerns from the podium. That rally was just two weeks after an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania.
Trump was slated to appear this Saturday afternoon at the Music City Center for 2024 Bitcoin. Secret Service agents reportedly told him to wait as two attendees were being removed for failing to follow proper entry procedures, a spokesperson with the agency confirmed to Fox News.
Secret Service detail told former President Trump that he needed to wait until the people were found before delivering his keynote address.
“It was determined that there was no protective interest with these individuals and there was never a threat to the former president,” the spokesperson said.
They were both reportedly interviewed by police after they were removed from the event.
That outlet reported the two attendees were stopped first by a checkpoint but then went around a second screening. It is still unknown how they slipped past the security points.
This comes after the unsuccessful assassination bid on Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. As the parade neared, 20-year-old gunman Thomas Mathew Crooks opened fire and killed one spectator and wounded many others. The president managed to emerge largely unscathed, although he apparently injured his ear.
The Pennsylvania shooting stoked bipartisan criticism of the Secret Service over its security breach. Now congressional lawmakers are examining how Crooks was able to infiltrate an area outside the rally’s perimeter, perching himself on top of the roof of a building with line-of-sight toward the former president.
The security lapses led in part to the resignation of Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle.
