The US Secret Service failed to discipline the agent at the heart of the security failures that allowed a gunman to take eight shots at President Trump during the July 13, 2024, campaign rally, according to a damning new Senate report.
The US Secret Service failed to discipline the agent at the heart of the security failures that allowed a gunman to take eight shots at President Trump during the July 13, 2024, campaign rally, according to a damning new Senate report.
That agent was allegedly warned by local cops about would-be assassin Thomas Crooks 25 minutes before Trump was shot — but did not relay that info to the agents on the ground in Butler, Pennsylvania, the report found.
The investigation into everything that went wrong at the rally — published on the anniversary of the attack — concluded that the Secret Service suffered “multiple, unacceptable failures.”
The leaders at the center of the scandal have never being appropriately punished, said Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), chair of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
“Despite those failures, no one has been fired,” Paul said in a statement. “And we only know what little discipline was handed out because I issued a subpoena. That’s unacceptable.”
Six agents were suspended without pay — including one junior agent from Trump’s security detail who was suspended for 45 days.
The expansive report singled out a Secret Service security room agent who was in charge of managing communications between local and federal law enforcement parties working security at the event.
