The Secret Service is undergoing major personnel changes and restructuring as the agency seeks to address significant security lapses that occurred before two assassination attempts on former President Donald Trump this summer.
The assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a July rally in Pennsylvania was “preventable and should not have happened,” according to a bipartisan House panel investigating the shooting and the “stunning security failures” at the event.
An independent, bipartisan review has uncovered “numerous mistakes” and “specific failures and breakdowns” by the Secret Service that enabled the assassination attempt on former President Trump in Butler, Penn., in July.
The Secret Service released a comprehensive blueprint on Wednesday, aimed at helping local and state law enforcement agencies prevent tragedies like mass shootings, assassination attempts, and other acts of targeted violence.
Two men who were shot during an assassination attempt on former President Trump at a Pennsylvania rally have spoken out, accusing the Secret Service of negligence in their security response that day in July.
State and local law enforcement testified before lawmakers Thursday about the Secret Service’s failure to secure the area during the July assassination attempt on former President Trump in Pennsylvania.
A Senate committee investigating the July 13 shooting at a Donald Trump rally is calling for Congress to reevaluate the Secret Service’s budget and mandate that security for U.S. leaders and political candidates be based on threat assessments rather than their office status.
A bipartisan Senate investigation released Wednesday revealed that multiple Secret Service failures ahead of former President Trump’s July rally, where a gunman opened fire, were “foreseeable, preventable, and directly related to the events resulting in the assassination attempt that day.”
