Report of the new Senate on the attempted assassination of Trump calls for more serious disciplinary measures

A new Senate report on the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump During a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last summer revealed “multiple and unacceptable failures” in the planning and response of American secret services, and called More severe disciplinary action.

Trump, then presidential candidate, was grazed by a ball during the rally like 20 year old tunman Thomas Crooks fired eight blows. A participant, Corey Comperatore, was killed and two others were injured.

A sniper later killed the shooter, but the attack sparked questions about how Crooks was able to avoid detection by the best protection agency in the country for almost 45 minutes.

“What happened was inexcusable and the consequences imposed on failures so far do not reflect the seriousness of the situation,” said the report Released on Sunday by the Committee for Internal Security and Government Affairs, chaired by Senator Rand PaulR-kY.

Last December, a working group in the chamber investigating the incident made nearly a dozen recommendations for the secret services in A 180 -page report This determined that the shot was “avoidable”.

The latest report details the series of breakdowns which reveal “a disturbing model of failure and neglect of communication which led to a preventable tragedy”.

He said the USSS had become aware of a suspicious person “almost 45 minutes before shots were fired and did not act.”

Despite prior knowledge of the vulnerabilities of the vision line on the site, those responsible did not address them, according to the report, adding that the agency has awarded an inexperienced operator to supervise counter-inmanated air systems and that the USSS headquarters “denied or the range of left deposits” by the Donald Trump division, including the staff of counter-sniper.

Last July, six secret service employees were suspended without salary, an agency official told NBC News last week. The suspensions varied from 10 to 42 days without salary. It is not known when the agents were officially suspended.

Less than two weeks after the incident, Kimberly Cheatle resigned as director of secret service in the midst of bipartite calls to her resignation. At the time, she said that she had “my totality the responsibility of security forfeiture”.

But the report also criticized the agency for “insufficient responsibility” after the attack.

“Not only one person has been dismissed,” he said. “The Committee considers that more than six people should have received disciplinary measures following their action (or inaction) on July 13, 2024. Those who were disciplined received much too weak sanctions to correspond to the severity of failures.”

Investigators also found that the secret services “refused or left multiple requests not made” of staff, assets and additional resources to protect President Trump.

“It was not a single error. It was a cascade of preventable chess that the president almost cost Trump his life,” he said. “The American people deserves better.”

On Saturday, the president of the Senate judicial committee, Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, published a Government Office of Responsibility To say that the USSS “has not implemented security measures that could have prevented the attempted assassination.”

“Before the July 13 rally, managers of higher level secret services became aware of a threat to the president of the Trump time trainer,” said the Gao report. “This information was not specific to the rally of July 13 or the shooter. However, due to the partitioned practice of the secret services to share classified information on threats, secret services and local laws on the application of laws at the Center for the Development of Site Safety Plans for Rally were not aware of the threat. ”

In an interview ABC News Before resigning, Cheatle said there was a “short period” between the moment when the shooter was initially reported as a suspect and when he started to shoot.

The investigation at the House of December praised the response of the secret services The second attempted assassination on Trump in September In West Palm Beach, Florida, credit it for demonstrating “the way in which properly executed protective measures can thwart an assassination attempt”.