A year after assassination attempt, Secret Service discipline ‘far too weak,’ Senate report says
By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times - Sunday, July 13, 2025
The Secret Service’s “cascade of preventable failures” in Butler, Pennsylvania, nearly cost President Trump his life last year, and the disciplinary penalties were “far too weak,” a Senate report has concluded.
The report, released Sunday on the anniversary of the July 13 rally in Butler, wrapped up the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s investigation into the Secret Service’s “stunning failures” that led to the deadly sniper-style attack in which Mr. Trump was shot in the ear.
The committee describes “a disturbing pattern of communication failures and negligence that culminated in a preventable tragedy.”
Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old gunman, “was able to evade detection by the country’s top protective agency for nearly 45 minutes” because of limited coordination among security partners, line-of-sight vulnerabilities that were flagged and not addressed and other failures, the report said.
No one at the Secret Service was fired.
The report was yet another black eye for the Secret Service after a series of scandals in recent years involving agents using prostitutes and getting into alcohol-fueled altercations in foreign countries.
In another failure at the Butler rally, the Secret Service received classified intelligence about a threat to Mr. Trump 10 days before the assassination attempt but did not share it with agents and law enforcement partners running security at the event, the Government Accountability Office said last week.
The Senate report also highlighted the failure of intelligence sharing. Its conclusions about the Secret Service’s shortcomings were similar to the GAO report and other reviews by a bipartisan House task force, an independent review panel and the Secret Service’s internal review.
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