Secret Service officials refused to provide Donald Trump with additional security in the two years prior to last weekend’s assassination, according to a report.   

The damning report has revealed that the ex-president’s request for more agents and magnetometers at events he attended was denied.

Four insiders told The Washington Post that each request was rejected by senior officials. The higher-ups of the Secret Service allegedly claimed that the agency lacked the resources Trump was asking for. 

It has also been revealed that Trump was receiving less protection, after losing the election and his bid for a second term in 2020, than other former presidents and major party presidential candidates. 

These revelations have been unearthed in the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Trump, 78, last Saturday at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. 

Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to bypass security measures at the rally and take fire at the presidential candidate. 

Crooks managed to graze Trump’s ear with a bullet, leaving him with a minor gunshot wound that could have been deadly, had the former president not moved his head at the last moment.