Security failures ‘preventable’ before attempt on Trump
Multiple Secret Service failures ahead of the July rally for former US president Donald Trump where a gunman opened fire were “foreseeable, preventable, and directly related to the events resulting in the assassination attempt that day”, according to a bipartisan Senate investigation.
Similar to the agency’s own internal investigation and an ongoing bipartisan House probe, the interim report from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee released on Wednesday found multiple failures on almost every level ahead of the Butler, Pennsylvania shooting, including in planning, communications, security and allocation of resources.
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