Former President Trump’s weekend speech in Nashville, Tennessee, was reportedly briefly delayed by the Secret Service over another security issue, just two weeks after he suffered an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania.
As Trump prepared to take the stage at the Music City Center for the Bitcoin 2024 conference on Saturday afternoon, Secret Service agents told him to wait and two accredited and screened attendees were removed for not following proper entry protocols, according to New York reports venue.
The former president’s Secret Service agents told him he wouldn’t be able to take the stage to deliver his keynote speech until the two men were found.
A Secret Service spokesman told both media outlets that Trump was never threatened.
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Donald Trump speaks at the Bitcoin Conference 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Getty Images)
“It was determined that these individuals had no protective interest and the former president was never threatened,” the spokesman said.
Both men were questioned by law enforcement after they were discovered and removed from the event, the New York Post reported. Neither man has been charged in connection with the incident.
The pair were stopped at an initial checkpoint before bypassing a second inspection, the outlet reported.
It’s unclear how these people passed screening.
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Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday, July 27, 2024. (Getty Images)
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On July 13, Trump was assassinated at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when 20-year-old gunman Thomas Mathew Crooks opened fire and survived. One spectator died and other attendees were injured. Trump suffered an ear injury during the incident.
The shooting in Pennsylvania sparked bipartisan criticism of Secret Service security lapses, and lawmakers are investigating how Crooks managed to reach the roof of a building outside the rally where he was sighted.
Kimberly Cheatle, now the former director of the Secret Service, resigned due to a security breach.
