“What we did yesterday proves the system can work,” the county sheriff said.

The Secret Service on Monday defended its protective plan for former President Donald Trump as “textbook” and “exemplary” after foiling a possible assassination attempt over the weekend.

“The Secret Service’s protective methodologies work, and they are sound and we saw that yesterday,” Acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr. said in a press conference at the county sheriff’s office in West Palm Beach. The director said the agent on the scene fired “immediately” toward the suspect as soon as he saw the barrel of the weapon — a move he said was emblematic of the Secret Service’s “hypervigilance.” The suspect didn’t have line of sight of Trump, he added, and wasn’t able to get any shots off at the agents who were sweeping the course.

Rowe nevertheless acknowledged that the agency needed to move from a “reactive model” to a “readiness model” and said the agency was talking to members of Congress about getting additional resources. He noted that many large events since the first assassination attempt against Trump had gone off without security threats, including the Republican National Convention, the Democratic National Convention, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu’s visit to Washington, D.C., and the presidential debate in Philadelphia.