The U.S. Secret Service during a security screening missed finding a gun carried by a member of President Donald Trump 's golf club in northern Virginia while Trump was there, the agency confirmed Wednesday.
The member self-reported shortly afterward that he inadvertently carried the gun to Trump National Washington, D.C., in Sterling on Aug. 31, according to a senior Secret Service official.
The incident occurred about a year after two assassination attempts on Trump, the most recent of which occurred while he was playing at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
"The U.S. Secret Service takes the safety and security of our sites very seriously and there are redundant security layers built into every one," the agency said Wednesday,
The agency said that an internal review