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Donald Trump’s would-be assassin was flagged as “suspicious” up to an hour before he began shooting and his phone’s history showed he’d searched for images of the Republican, senators have heard amid growing calls for the head of the US Secret Service to resign.
In two closed briefings to lawmakers in the House and Senate on Wednesday, law enforcement officials, including the Secret Service, shared limited new information about security and the man who opened fire at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
Wyoming Senator John Barrasso said the Secret Service told them they had spotted the attacker one hour before the attack, but then lost sight of him in the crowd.
“He was identified as a character of suspicion because [he had] a rangefinder as well as a backpack. And this was over an hour before the shooting actually occurred,” he told Fox News.
