President Donald Trump named Sean Curran as his Secret Service director, the man who personally protected him against the gunman who tried to assassinate him last year in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Curran was the head of Trump’s personal Secret Service detail and stood to his left while Trump’s famous fist-raising, ear-bleeding photo was taken.
“It is my great honor to appoint Sean Curran as the next Director of the United States Secret Service. Sean is a Great Patriot, who has protected my family over the past few years, and that is why I trust him to lead the Brave Men and Women of the United States Secret Service,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
Curran served as a Secret Service agent for 24 years, including as the assistant special agent in charge of the Presidential Protective Division during Trump’s first term as president. The PPD is specifically in charge of protecting the president and their family.
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“Sean has distinguished himself as a brilliant leader, who is capable of directing and leading operational security plans for some of the most complex Special Security Events in the History of our Country, and the World,” the president added. “He proved his fearless courage when he risked his own life to help save mine from an assassin’s bullet in Butler, Pennsylvania. I have complete and total confidence in Sean to make the United States Secret Service stronger than ever before.”
Ronald Rowe Jr. had been serving as acting director of the agency since former Director Kimberly Cheatle stepped down weeks after Trump’s assassination attempt.
