Trump names agent Sean Curran as Secret Service director

President Trump on Wednesday tapped Sean Curran to serve as the director of the Secret Service, elevating a long-time agent who was protecting Trump during an assassination attempt last July.

"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 posted on Truth Social.

Curran joined the Secret Service in 2001 as a special agent in the agency's Newark field office. He served as the assistant special agent in charge of the Presidential Protective Division during Trump's first term in office.

"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," Trump posted. "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."

The Secret Service came under intense scrutiny last year after Trump was grazed by a bullet during a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., in July. Another alleged would-be assassin was able to bring a gun along the perimeter of Trump's golf club in Florida in September. He was apprehended by agents before Trump was in proximity.

Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned in late July following the Butler shooting.

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