Agent who protected Trump in assassination attempt becomes head of U.S. Secret Service

US President Donald Trump appointed as the new head of the country's Secret Service agent Sean Curran, who protected the Republican during the July assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania last year. The White House chief of staff wrote on Truth Social on Jan. 22.

"He showed fearless courage when he risked his life to help save mine from an assassin's bullet in Butler, Pennsylvania. I have full and absolute confidence that Sean will make the U.S. Secret Service stronger than ever before," The Hill quoted Trump as saying.

Curran began his career with the agency in 2001 and during President Trump's first term served as assistant special agent in charge of the head of state's security detail.

He will succeed Ron Rowe, who has been the acting head of the Secret Service since July 2024.

On July 13, 2024, there was an ass assination attempt on Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. The politician received a gunshot wound in the ear on a tangential angle. One of the spectators was killed, two were injured. The attacker was eliminated by return fire from an FBI sniper.

The former head of the Secret Service Kimberly Cheatle called the assassination attempt on Trump the biggest failure in the work of the agency in decades and resigned, and some agents were suspended during the investigation.