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Sunday’s shooting of an armed man at President Trump’s Florida club is one of only a handful of fatal encounters that the agency has had in its 160-year history.
President Donald Trump's Secret Service detail has one job: protect the president. Yet even after a 2024 assassination attempt in which then-candidate Trump was shot in the ear while campaigning in Butler, Pennsylvania, there are appalling lapses in security.
A U.S. Secret Service agent, left, stands next to President Donald Trump’s limousine as Trump, right, exits the back seat upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025, after visiting his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla.
An armed man drove into the secure perimeter of President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida before being shot and killed Sunday. Trump was not there at the time.
Caption: The Secret Service says it shot and killed an intruder carrying a shotgun and a can of gas who breached the perimeter of U.S. President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. The FBI and U.