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The Secret Service has investigated approximately 10,000 threats to its protectees \u2014 including President Trump \u2014 in the first half of this year, the head of the agency revealed Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe numbers are numbers that this agency and certainly I have never seen in my 24-year career,\u201d Secret Service Director Sean Curran told reporters in a briefing ahead of Friday night\u2019s rescheduled White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe environment has become very volatile, and that\u2019s just across the board,\u201d added Curran. \u201cThe threat picture and environment is as large as I\u2019ve ever seen it.\u201d<\/p>\n

By comparison, the Secret Service had opened around 7,000 investigations during the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n

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The agency is responsible for the security of roughly three dozen protectees, including the president and vice president, their immediate families, and those in the presidential line of succession.<\/p>\n

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Officials said most of the threats the Secret Service investigates originate online and are treated as potentially credible until agents can determine whether the subject has the intent, means and ability to actually carry out an attack.<\/p>\n

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