Former Secret Service agent: Trump administration should consider having less Cabinet members at events

A former Secret Service agent said Sunday that the Trump administration should be “looking at” scaling back the number of Cabinet officials attending the same events after Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner in Washington. “Do we need to rethink the idea that we’d have a dozen people in the line of presidential succession in one room?” NewsNation’s Chris Stirewalt asked Robert McDonald on “The Hill Sunday.” “Yeah, I think your point is spot on, Chris,” McDonald, who is a retired supervisory Secret Service agent responded. “This is something that we probably need to be looking at going forward.” A man exchanged gunfire with law enforcement at the yearly WHCA dinner on Saturday evening. President Trump and first lady Melania Trump were evacuated, with journalists and government officials left shaken. Other members part of the presidential succession in attendance included Vice President Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). Cabinet members, including Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as well as acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, among others, were also at Saturday’s event. “President Trump does seem to have a lot of Cabinet members in and around [various] events that he does,” he continued. …