Senate issues scathing report on Secret Service failures to protect Trump

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee issued a scathing report Wednesday on the multiple failures by the Secret Service to protect former President Trump at his July rally in Butler, Pa.

The report found agents had multiple opportunities to prevent the shooting that killed one person and injured several others, including Trump.

The failures that put Trump’s life at risk were “foreseeable” and “preventable” and grew out of a breakdown in communication and coordination between federal, state and local law enforcement, the committee said.

Secret Service failed to define responsibilities for planning and security at the rally, failed to secure the building from which the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, targeted Trump, and failed to effectively coordinate with state and local law enforcement, according to the report.

The report found that the Secret Service failed to provide key resources that could have helped security, such as drones or a countersurveillance unit. Secret Service officials denied requests for additional counter unmanned aircraft systems.