Thanks to the investigations of two Senate committees, Americans are getting a clearer picture of what went wrong leading up to the July 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Pa. — and the details are beyond damning for the Secret Service.
Reporting, released by the Government Accountability Office and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, list a series of bungles and mishaps that would sound satirical if they didn’t have such deadly serious consequences.
First off, the agency denied a request for anti-drone systems for the rally, claiming those resources were already set aside for the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, and didn’t provide a Counter Assault Team liaison to coordinate between its agents and the local SWAT teams.
The agency almost didn’t send in the counter-sniper teams that ultimately took out shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks, ending his bloody rampage; imagine the horrific consequences if it hadn’t.
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