U.S. Secret Service Director Sean Curran, previously the head of President Donald Trump's protective detail, is finally speaking out publicly after being elevated to his current position last month.

In one interview this week, Curran expressed confidence that his agency would eventually uncover the full truth behind the apparent security failures that resulted in at least two known assassination attempts against Trump last year, according to Newsweek.

In a separate interview, he also discussed the close bond he has forged with the president over the years and how it was strengthened even further following the near-miss of a would-be assassin's bullet at an outdoor campaign rally in Pennsylvania last July.

Curran "confident" that security failures will be addressed

On Wednesday, Director Curran spoke with Fox News host Sean Hannity about the "life-changing" incident in Pennsylvania as well as a second attempted assassination against President Trump at his golf course in South Florida in September.

Though he declined to discuss the specifics of either incident, he suggested that the reasons for the Secret Service's apparent security failures would be discovered amid multiple ongoing investigations and addressed under his leadership.

"I'm confident in the men and women in the Secret Service, our partners on the Hill, the [Homeland Security] secretary, and the cooperation from everyone else," Curran told Hannity. "We've really come together, and I'm confident in the process."

Trump wants to know everything about his would-be assassins

Newsweek noted that the comments from Director Curran, who was directly named to his position by President Trump just a couple of days after he took office last month, came just two weeks after Trump publicly demanded in a media interview to "find out about the two assassins" who tried to kill him.

Trump further implied that the prior Biden-Harris administration had worked to cover up the full truth of the two attempted assassinations and added, "No more holding back because of Biden ... I'm entitled to know. And they held it back long enough."

The first of those incidents, in July 2024, occurred when gunman Thomas Crooks opened fire with a rifle from a nearby rooftop during an outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and grazed Trump's ear with a bullet. Curran immediately rushed to Trump's aid while bullets were still flying and has been immortalized in photos and videos of the frightening moment.

Just a couple of months later, a second would-be assassin, Ryan Routh, was discovered in an ambush position with a rifle along the edge of Trump's golf course while the president was playing but was scared away by Secret Service agents scouting ahead and never fired a shot. He was later apprehended by local law enforcement and now faces federal criminal charges.

Curran says he and Trump "have a bond, probably for life"

In a separate interview with CBS News this week, Director Curran shared how he and President Trump had grown close through near-daily contact over the past seven years and how they grew even closer following the shooting in Pennsylvania, and explained, "I felt like I couldn't let him out of my sight. Not to the point where I'd be overworked, but to a point where I felt like I needed to be with him to ensure that things were done the way I needed them to be done. I didn't want to leave his side. I think he probably didn't want me to leave his side, either."

He also discussed Trump's multiple legal issues last year and how preliminary plans had been drawn up to keep him protected in the unlikely event he'd been sentenced to prison, and said, "Look, if it came to it, I'd be sitting right next to him. That's how much I care for him. That's how much I felt that he deserved the level of protection that any of our protectees should get. There's nothing I would have not done for him."

"He has always shown respect to not only me, but the division that protected him," Curran said of Trump. "We have a bond, probably for life."

As for his own rise through the Secret Service ranks and criticism of his unconventional ascension to become the director, he noted, "I think overall, people see who I am. They see that I'm out there. They see that I just had a vest on a month ago, and I'm now up here. If you look around historically, that is not what you've seen up here. I've taken a different path. People know that. People are probably scared of that, because I'm the unknown."