Security forces shield Donald Trump’s inauguration from the threat of “lone wolves”

United States security forces announced this Monday an operation to protect the presidential investiture of Donald Trump faces different threats such as possible attacks of “lone wolves.”

Some 25,000 agents and soldiers of the National Guard will be deployed on January 20 to guarantee the security of Trump’s inauguration, an event that will be surrounded for about 48 kilometers of fences.

The Republican, who already governed the country between 2017 and 2021, will be sworn in at noon on the steps of the Capitol surrounded by dozens of authorities and in front of thousands of attendees concentrated on the National Mall in Washington.

Secret Service special agent for the capital, Matt McCool, said in a press conference that there is “an environment of greater threat” than in the last inauguration of Joe Biden in January 2021, held in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We are 100% confident that the plan we have designed for this investiture will ensure that the public and authorities are safe,” the agent declared.

The Chief of the Capitol Police, Thomas Manager, noted that “the greatest threat” to the inauguration It is the possible attack by some “lone wolf”.

The commissioner recalled that last week a person was arrested who tried to access the funeral chapel of former President Jimmy Carter in the Capitol with knives, and another who He intended to set fire to his vehicle in the vicinity of Congress.

“The threat of a lone wolf remains the strongest justification for us to maintain heightened alert status over the next week,” he said.

Trump was the victim of an assassination attempt during the election campaign, when he was shot in July at a rally in Butler (Pennsylvania) that grazed his ear.

Security concerns in the United States increased after a person drove into a crowd during New Year’s celebrations in New Orleans, killing 14 people.

Hours later, another man blew up a Tesla vehicle at the doors of the Trump-owned hotel in Las Vegas.