Senate issues scathing report on Secret Service failures to protect Trump
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A Senate report released Wednesday reveals Secret Service failures in protecting former President Trump at the July rally where he was shot in the ear.
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Investigators found that there was no clear chain of command among the Secret Service and other security agencies and no plan for coverage of the building where the shooter climbed up to fire the shots.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Multiple Secret Service failures ahead of the July rally for former President Donald Trump where a gunman opened fire were “foreseeable, preventable, and directly related to the events resulting in the assassination attempt that day,” according to a bipartisan Senate investigation …
A Senate report released Wednesday reveals Secret Service failures in protecting former President Trump at the July rally where he was shot in the ear.
Secret Service agents failed to take charge of decision-making for security at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally where former President Donald Trump was shot in July, a bipartisan Senate committee revealed in a new report Wednesday, leading to key lapses in preparation and communication that day.
WASHINGTON — Multiple Secret Service failures ahead of the July rally for former President Donald Trump where a gunman opened fire were “foreseeable, preventable, and directly related to the events resulting in the assassination attempt that day,” according to a bipartisan Senate investigation relea…
The US Secret Service agents in charge of Donald Trump’s July 13 rally failed at nearly every opportunity before and during the former president rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to a scathing 94-page Senate report on the July 13 sniper attack released Wednesday.
The Secret Service’s "stunning" failures "directly contributed to" Thomas Crooks’s July 13 assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump, according to an interim Senate report released Wednesday.
The interim report from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee found multiple failures on almost every level ahead of the Butler, Pennsylvania shooting, including in planning, communications, security and allocation of resources.
The Secret Service made a series of "foreseeable" and "preventable" mistakes in the lead-up to the first attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, a bipartisan Senate report found.
Bipartisan report says counter-sniper who saw armed officers running towards building with shooter on roof didn’t tell colleagues to pull Trump off stage
The interim report from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee found multiple failures on almost every level ahead of the Butler, Pennsylvania shooting.
The report cited a lack of a chain of command, poor coordination with state and local law enforcement, inadequate resources and equipment and failure to ensure Trump's safety.
