‘The buck stops with me,’ Kimberly Cheatle said. ‘I am the director of the Secret Service.’ She said she has no plans to resign, and so far she has the administration’s backing.

Trump was joined by Ohio Sen. JD Vance at the pair’s first event together since they became the Republican’s nominees at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

Since the shooting, conspiracy theories have proliferated – on the right and left – as every aspect of the incident is examined by self-appointed sleuths.

Trump and Vance will hold a rally in Michigan on Saturday, Trump’s first since the Pennsylvania campaign event a week earlier where he was shot in the ear.

The Republican National Convention underscored how speakers with views once considered fringe have seeped into conservative mainstream.