 Ironically, one of those teams was reportedly watching a rally from inside the same building that Thomas Swift climbed up on the roof to aim and shoot at Trump. A lot of good they did. There were a variety of reasons given for Trump's Secret Service team being shorthanded. One, there had been many requests from the Trump staff for more protection and went unheeded by the Biden administration. Two, some of Trump's Social Security agents or Secret Service agents were reassigned to Jill Biden