CNN’s Shimon Prokupecz Confronts Secret Service Rep About Trump Shooting: ‘It Just Raises a Lot of Questions’

CNN crime and justice correspondent Shimon Prokupecz repeatedly pressed Secret Service officials about the security lapse in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday that resulted in the shooting of former President Donald Trump and several of his supporters.

None of his questions were answered, leading him to demand that someone from the agency show transparency with the public.

The agency said in a rare news conference that it had been working for a year to ensure this week’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee would be secure but neither the bullet that grazed Trump’s ear nor the one that killed 50-year-old Corey Comperatore were mentioned.

Once the briefing opened up for questions, Prokupecz demanded answers about the agency’s silence on Saturday’s events.

Agent Audrey Gibson-Cicchino, the Secret Service RNC Coordinator, called on Prokupecz who said:

I don’t understand why it is that you have one of the most significant events in the Secret Service’s history and no one from the Secret Service has publicly decided to take questions about what happened. The FBI today openly giving us an on-the-record briefing about their investigation and yet we still have not heard from anyone from the Secret Service about what happened, about what the agency knew, about the [the security lapse.] I just don’t understand how anyone could think that that’s OK.

Prokupecz was stonewalled by Gibson-Cicchino, who told him to speak to the agency’s leadership in Washington.

The CNN reporter followed up his first comments by further grilling Gibson-Cicchino about when her agency would finally address what happened on Saturday:

Right, but this is the first time where anyone at the Secret Service has publicly even spoken to the media since this happened. There was a public press conference last night that the Secret Service was not at. State officials and the FBI were there but yet the Secret Service was absent. It just raises a lot of questions about why the Secret Service is not willing to answer questions.

Gibson-Cicchino declined to answer or address Prokupecz’s questions and concerns and again referred his questions to her superiors.

The news briefing came less than 24 hours after the FBI said 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks fired multiple shots from a rooftop with a clear line of sight of Trump, striking him and the others who were wounded or killed.

Crooks died when a Secret Service sniper took him out after he began firing at Trump.

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