The Secret Service admitted that many mistakes led up to the shooting of Donald Trump in Butler, Pa.
The Secret Service is ready to acknowledge its failures leading up to the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Pa.
“It’s important that we hold ourselves to account for the failures of July 13 and that we use the lessons learned to make sure that we do not have another failure like this again,” Ronald Rowe Jr., acting director director of the Secret Service, said in a press conference on Friday.
In newly released findings from an internal review process centered on the shooting, the Secret Service admitted it had likely relied too heavily on ill-equipped local law enforcement and cited “communications deficiencies” in the Secret Service’s operation in Butler.
The Secret Service found that communication broke down between law enforcement and the agency in the days leading up to the rally and continued to be patchy on the day of the shooting.
