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Trump assassination attempt probe finds Secret Service needs fundamental reform or another Butler will happen again
An independent panel investigating the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign rally says the Secret Services needs “fundamental reform” and that “another Butler can and will happen again” without major changes in how candidates are protected.The review faulted the Secret Service for poor communications that day and failing to secure the building where the gunman took his shots.It also found more systemic issues at the agency such as a failure to understand the unique risks facing Trump and a culture of doing “more with less.”The 52-page report issued Thursday took the Secret Service to task for specific problems leading up to the July 13 rally in Butler as a well as deeper one within the agency’s culture.
It recommended bringing in new, outside leadership and refocusing on its protective mission.“The Secret Service as an agency requires fundamental reform to carry out its mission,” the authors wrote Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of the Homeland Security Department, the Secret Service’s parent agency, in a letter accompanying their report.“Without that reform, the Independent Review Panel believes another Butler can and will happen again.”One rallygoer was killed and two others wounded when Thomas Michael Crooks climbed onto the roof of a nearby building and opened fire as Trump spoke.
The former president was wounded in the ear before being rushed off the stage by Secret Service agents.That shooting, along with another incident in Florida when Trump was golfing — a gunman there never got a line of site on the president or fired a shot — has led to a crisis in confidence in the agency.The report by a panel of four former law enforcement officials from national and state government follows investigations by members of Congress, the agency’s own investigators and by Homeland Security’s oversight body.A look at the report’s key findings and recommendations:The panel echoed previous reports that ...