The Senate has weighed in on the July Trump rally tragedy. The conclusion is disturbing.
Because this U.S. Senate report on the Trump assassination implicates Biden and Harris.
So far, Americans have had very few answers about how the Trump assassination attempt was allowed to happen back in July. A man lost his life and the former President was within an inch of losing his, and many of the vast majority of Americans are justifiably still upset about what was, at best, a giant Secret Service failure.
The worst fear for some Americans is that there was intentional negligence or a bigger part of the story not being told. The idea that the shooter wasn’t acting alone is a possibility that is hard to outright disregard, leaving rumors to start spreading around like wildfire as they have. The only way to get to the bottom of this is with transparency.
The U.S. Senate has released a report on the assassination attempt, and while it does provide some answers, it leaves far too many questions unanswered. If anything, it creates more questions about why the giant mistakes took place.
Senate Homeland Security Committee Unveils Report on Secret Service Failures in Trump Assassination Attempt
On Wednesday, the Senate Homeland Security Committee released a comprehensive report detailing the “preventable” security failures by the Secret Service that led to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during a rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania, on July 13.
According to the report, a lack of a clear chain of command and major communication breakdowns were “foreseeable, preventable, and directly related to” the incident. These failures nearly resulted in Trump’s assassination by 20-year-old gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks, sparking widespread criticism and bipartisan demands for accountability.
“From planning missteps, to the siloed and flawed communication to the lack of effective coordination between law enforcement, to the breakdowns in technology, the Secret Service’s failures that allowed an assassination attempt on former President Trump at his July 13 rally were shocking, unacceptable, and preventable – and they led to tragic consequences,” said Chairman Gary Peters in a press release.
Secret Service acting Director Ronald Rowe acknowledged the failures, stating, “It’s important that we hold ourselves to account for the failures of July 13th and that we use the lessons learned to make sure that we do not have another failure like this again.”
Five days before the Senate report was released, the Secret Service had issued its own five-page report outlining similar shortcomings. Their report confirmed that several “communications deficiencies” had “inhibited the collective awareness” of federal and local law enforcement securing the rally.
The Senate report underscored these preventable failures, revealing an incident where a Secret Service counter sniper had observed officers drawing firearms toward the building where Crooks was stationed but did not communicate the threat in time to evacuate the former president. According to the report, Crooks had been identified by multiple sources, including rally attendees and Secret Service personnel, over an hour before Trump took the stage.
The counter sniper, who lacked a clear line of sight, was only assigned to the rally because of “credible intelligence” about a threat. Previously, no snipers had been assigned to work at the event, a decision that has drawn significant scrutiny.
The report also criticized Secret Service agents for “denying individual responsibility” and “deflecting blame” for the security breakdowns. It noted that agents were unable to identify who made the final security decisions for the rally.
“Our initial findings clearly show a series of multiple failures of the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) and an inexcusable dereliction of duty,” said ranking committee member Rand Paul. “Not only did USSS fail to ensure the AGR roof was adequately covered, they were also aware of a suspicious individual with a rangefinder for at least 27 minutes and did not delay proceedings or remove former President Trump from the stage, even after being informed that the suspicious individual was on the roof of the AGR building.”
Paul continued, calling for accountability: “Someone needs to be held accountable for these egregious failures by the USSS, and despite USSS, DHS, FBI, ATF, and other federal agencies’ continued obstruction of our bipartisan investigation, I will continue to push for answers and accountability.”
The Butler rally incident was followed just two months later by another serious threat. In this case, 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested and charged with attempting to assassinate a presidential candidate after a Secret Service agent spotted his “AK-47 style rifle with a scope” at Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Following the Senate report’s release, U.S. Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi emphasized that the agency has already taken steps to enhance Trump’s security. “We have increased Trump’s security detail to the highest level of protection that the U.S. Secret Service can provide,” he stated in a press release.
Guglielmi also noted that the Secret Service is “diligently examining long-term solutions to challenges such as enhancing communications and interoperability with our federal, state, and local partners to make sure our coordinated efforts during protective events are seamless.”
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