Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) refuted conspiracies from the right and the left political fringes about the shooting of former President Donald Trump.
At a Senate hearing on Tuesday, Klobuchar asked acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe to dispel conspiracy theories that suggested that the shooting did not take place, as well as one that the government purposefully allowed the incident to occur.
"Could you just give me a minute on what went wrong?" Klobuchar said. "And how you think it can be fixed because I think it's just going to help to dispel the conspiracy theories."
"There's some people that think it didn't really happen, which, of course, is completely ridiculous." the senator said. "It did. There are some people that think all kinds of conspiracies went on within the government, which is also false, but could you just tell them what went wrong?"
"I think this was a failure of imagination, a failure to imagine that we actually do live in a very dangerous world where people do actually want to do harm to our protectees," Rowe replied.
The acting director suggested that the Secret Service failed to challenge the assumptions about what law enforcement partners would cover during protected events.
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"They're the ones out there going into hazardous conditions every day," he said. "They know their communities. They have the ability to enforce state and local laws."
"We need them, and we need them to be partners with us. I think we need to be very clear with them, and that may have contributed to this situation."
