Trump taps Sean Curran as next Secret Service director

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Sean Curran, the head of his security detail, as the director of the Secret Service, reported news agency AFP. Curran was one of the Secret Service agents who helped protect Trump during a failed assassination bid at an election rally in Pennsylvania last year.

US President Donald Trump nominated Sean Curran as the new director of the Secret Service(AP)

He was identified as the agent to Trump's right in pictures of the President raising his fist defiantly after he was shot in the ear by a gunman in Butler, Pennsylvania.

"Sean is a Great Patriot, who has protected my family over the past few years, and that is why I trust him to lead the Brave Men and Women of the United States Secret Service," Trump posted on Truth Social.