Secret Service failed to secure area where gunman shot at Trump, local law officials testify
Crime,Politics,Donald Trump,Trump Assassination Attempts
Local law enforcement officers who worked former President Donald Trump’s July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, told lawmakers Thursday that the Secret Service never asked them to cover the area where a gunman accessed a roof and shot at the Republican presidential candidate. One of the officers testified that during the planning for the rally at the Butler Farm Show grounds, he told the Secret Service that local cops didn’t have the manpower to cover a large building of interconnected warehouses in the adjacent AGR International complex. The Secret Service...
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