Secret Service agents failed to take charge of decision-making for security at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally where former President Donald Trump was shot in July, a bipartisan Senate committee revealed in a new report Wednesday, leading to key lapses in preparation and communication that day.
The report, citing interviews with top Secret Service officials and local law enforcement who oversaw the security for the rally, said the failures were “foreseeable, preventable” and found that many of the problems identified by the committee “remain unaddressed” by the Secret Service.
But the apparent breakdown in intelligence sharing prior to the Butler rally raises new questions about why certain security assets were not ultimately provided by the Secret Service despite the fact that certain agents, including members of Trump’s protective detail, were aware of a credible threat.
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