Secret Service failures ‘directly contributed’ to Trump assassination attempt, Senate probe finds

A series of Secret Service failures related to the planning and execution of security operations “directly contributed” to the attempt on the life of former President Donald Trump at a July 13 rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania, a Senate panel found.

The Secret Service never went on the rooftop where Thomas Matthew Crooks fired at Mr. Trump or even entered the building on the AGR International complex before the shooting, even though agents were aware the location adjacent to the rally site on the Butler Farm Show grounds would have a direct line of sight to the former president.

That was one of many “foreseeable, preventable” security failures of the Secret Service, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and its permanent subcommittee on investigations said in an interim report on its investigation into the assassination attempt.