Eric Trump says he wants ‘real accountability’ for security failures that led to rally shooting

Eric Trump said he wants “real accountability” for security failures that led to the shooting at his father’s rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend Tuesday.

“The men and women on that stage, in that moment, are the greatest people in the world,” the former president’s son said in an interview with “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell of the Secret Service agents who protected former President Trump following the shots ringing out at the rally.

“I know many of them personally and they’re phenomenal, phenomenal individuals. And I’m sure they’ll get to the bottom of it, but there’d better be real accountability,” the younger Trump said. “You can’t have ex-presidents taking bullets through the ear.”

The former president was hit by a bullet in one of his ears after an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pa., Saturday evening, only a few days before the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Wisconsin. He was wearing a bandage on that ear when he went into the convention hall at the RNC Monday.

The Secret Service has faced scrutiny in the wake of the shooting, with some questioning as to how the gunman had access to a roof that had a clear line of sight to the elder Trump. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said in an interview that aired Monday that it is her responsibility to investigate the shooting.

“The buck stops with me,” she said. “I am the director of the Secret Service, and I need to make sure that we are performing a review and that we are giving resources to our personnel as necessary.”

In his interview with O’Donnell, Eric Trump said his father’s “ear hurts, and he’s lucky, it was a bad skin wound.”

“He’s in great spirits,” the former president’s son added.

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