The president of the National Security Committee of the Senate and the Committee of Government Affairs, Rand Paul, published a final report on Sunday about the conclusions of the committee of his investigation into the attempted murder by Thomas Crooks addressed to the then candidate for Donald Trump, marking a year from the events in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The report has few new details and is largely a repetition of the information that was already known about the shooting. Largely reflects a preliminary report on the investigation presented by the president of the then Gary Peters Committee in September 2024.
The report describes what Paul calls “impressive failures of the United States Secret Service that allowed the then President of Former Donald J. Trump to receive a shot on July 13, 2024”.
“The truth is that President Trump, and the Nation, were fortunate. The president who once survived despite receiving a shot in the head. Since that day, there has been another attempt on his life and more threats to harm him, including the most recently a renewed threat of Iran. This report reveals a disturbing pattern of communication and negligence that is reflected until the intention of an intention of the intention of the intention of the intention of the intention of the intention of the intention of the intention of the intention of the intention of the intention of the intention of the intention of the intention of the intention Preventive.
Former President Donald Trump is run outside the stage by Secret Service agents after being grazed by a bullet during a demonstration in Butler, Penn., July 13, 2024.
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The report comes from the bipartisan investigation of the committee launched shortly after the attack on July 13, 2024. It is based on 75,000 pages of documents produced to the Committee, according to the report.
The reports of the report highlight many that have already been informed about Trump’s shot attempt, including what he describes as “unacceptable failures” in the planning and execution of the butler rally.
In particular, he emphasizes, as reported above, communication failures that led to vulnerabilities in the day. It focuses on a previously reported breakdown of communications between the application of local law and USSS.
The report indicates instances that lead to Butler’s rally in which the headquarters of the Secret Service denied or left non -compliance with additional resources to support Trump during the campaign. They highlight an instance in which an appointment request in a demonstration in South Carolina was not fulfilled, although there were counter Rally.
It also emphasizes that the lack of countertop on July 9, 2024 of Trump, Rally in Doral, even after an informative session the previous day, from the Ussss protective intelligence division led to the determination of July 9 by USSS that the opposite snipers should be present in all the manifestations in the free air of Trump due to the intelligence that reflected the greatest risks in exterior.
The report also highlights other instances of other resources, such as back cover and drones equipment, which is denied for several Trump events in 2024.
The report argues that there has been an “insufficient responsibility” for USSS officials involved in the incident. Paul, according to the report, cited USSS for records related to “disciplinary actions” taken against the personnel involved in the planning of the butler demonstration earlier this month. The documents produced revealed that six individuals have faced a disciplinary action, and the report argues that the sanctions received were “too weak to match the severity of the failures.”
Paul also says that Kimberley Cheatle, the former USSS director, made false statements when testifying before Congress after the attack. Cheatle told the committee that “there were no requests that denied” for Butler’s demonstration, but the committee found evidence of “at least two cases of assets that were denied by the USSS headquarters” related to Butler’s rally. The report states that the testimony of former interim director Ronald Rowe was also “misleading.”
