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.”
Public confidence in the Secret Service has plummeted following the July assassination attempt on former President Trump, according to a Gallup poll released Monday, with ratings of the agency’s performance sinking by 23 percentage points.
Acting Secret Service Director Ronald L. Rowe Jr. is calling on Congress to invest significantly more in the agency after two apparent assassination attempts against former President Trump.
Iranian hackers attempted to interfere in the 2024 election by sending unsolicited emails containing stolen information from Donald Trump’s campaign to individuals associated with then-Democratic candidate Joe Biden, according to a joint statement from the FBI and other federal agencies.
Ryan Routh, the alleged gunman in the recent assassination attempt on former President Trump, was previously flagged in a 2019 tip to the FBI.
The FBI is investigating what it describes as “an apparent attempted assassination” of former President Donald Trump after Secret Service agents opened fire on an armed man at Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday.
The Justice Department is reportedly preparing to file criminal charges in connection with an Iranian cyberattack that targeted Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in an attempt to influence the outcome of the upcoming November election, according to two individuals familiar with the situation, the Associated Press reports.
Attorney General Merrick Garland plans to condemn “conspiracy theories” and “dangerous falsehoods” aimed at the Justice Department in a Thursday speech, where he will challenge Republican claims of politicization.
