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Documents conducted by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs show major failures among six US Secret Service (USS) agents, which were shocked at the then Presidential Rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, butler in Pennsylvania, the then presidential candidate Donald Trump was noticed without payment.
While the USSS had earlier told Fox News that the agents were disciplined in February, paperwork suggests that five agents were not disciplined till April, which is when Sen Rand Paul, R-K.
The USSS interview shows that the main site agent was unprotected and undertren, and fellow agents said she did not know what she was doing in Butler.
The campaign rally first marked that the agent had obtained an outdoor rally, and the agents on the ground claimed that it lacks basic knowledge, according to the report.
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Gupta service agents surrounded Donald Trump on stage on July 13, 2024 after being shot at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
The interviews also unveiled that many agents acknowledged the existence of major security concerns at the Butler rally, but none of them raised concerns or helped produce a plan to cover the roof properly, providing a clear shot of Trump to 20 -year -old Thomas Crook.
Documents show that some agents have never organized the walk-through of the site. For example, lead advanced agents, documents show, never traveled the final security through the rally site because she was in the hospital for heat tiredness, the special agent said that when the question was asked.
But documents also provide a deep dive in six agents that were disciplined due to failures in safety expansion.
Secret Service suspended 6 agents working with protecting Trump during the July 2024 attempt to murder.
The countersmen surrounded Thomas miscreants on the agri roof after killing him. (Butler TWP Police Department)
Agent
The lead advance agent had 21 years with the USSS, spent in six years in the Vice-President protective division.
Despite the April documents, the agent was suspended without payment for 21 days, the agent received a 14-day suspension. According to the Secret Service, the agent was the most senior and experienced agent in the advanced team, yet it failed to secure the rally site.
Documents suggest that the lead agent was aware of the line-off-vision concerns, but it failed to produce a plan to address the issue or secure the building.
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Former President Trump is assisted by American Secret Service personnel after shooting at a campaign rally at Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania on 13 July. (Reuters/Brandon McDermid)
During his interview, the lead agent said he did not know that three local snipers were inside the Agri building instead of the roof, where the miscreants were encouraged while shooting the miscreants.
Counter sniper team lead
The counter sniper team Lead had a 10 -year experience with the USSS, with two years in the uniformed divisions and eight with the counter sniper program.
The counter sniper lead was suspended in April for 52 days without salary, but only 35 days were to be served. He is currently on official banned duty position.
The agent is accused that he is not running on the entire Butler rally site and is using “Google and accessories” to take a look at the field instead. He also failed to talk or cooperate with local sniper teams and never raised the radios introduced by local law enforcement to communicate with other teams.
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Donald Trump reacted as Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024, many shots leave during a campaign rally at Butler Farm Show. (Reuters/Brandon McDermid)
The Secret Service said with the level of lead sniper’s experience, they should know how to successfully secure the ground. During the interview, sniper also said that he received text messages about being unfortunate, but failed to alert the lead site agent and security room.
Site agent
One of the site agents, who was disciplined, had a five -year experience with the USSS and was originally informed in April that they would be suspended for three days. But the secret service has shown documents for 42 days without salary.
The Secret Service said that the agent failed to communicate that the team had an active threat to the rally on the field. The Secret Service also stated that the agent blamed others for safety failures, but she was one who was eventually responsible for all security.
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The vehicle carrying Donald Trump is surrounded by US secret service agents, when he was shot at a campaign rally on Saturday, July 13, 2024 in Butler, PA. (AP Photo/Ivan Wuki)
After the attempt to murder, the agent spoke with a reporter and shared information about the rear of the rally scenes, showing documents.
Senior special agent site equivalent
The senior special agent site counterpart had a 20 -year experience, including the experience of dealing with the President’s details. According to the documents, the counterpart was disciplined for 14 days in April without salary, although he argued that he should not be punished. Instead, the agent convicts the site agent.
Senior special agent site counterparts should have been responsible for securing the site and identifying the dangers, showing documents.
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Donald Trump is assisted by the US Secret Service personnel, when Butler, Pennsylvania, US, was shot at the Butler Farm Show on 13 July, 2024. (Reuters/Brandon McDermid)
During the interview, the equivalent told the USSS that the site agent with which she was working did not know the “basic things”, saying that it was not her job to “coach” the site agent.
The Secret Service also said that the local police emailed their plans to secure the area to the senior counterpart, but they never opened or read the plans.
Special agent in -charge Pittsburg Area Office
The special agent in -charge of the Pittsburgh Field Office had a 24 -year experience with the USSS, and the rally was placed on a telework position. In November, the agent was re -assigned to work with the cybercanings program, and in January he was told that he would be suspended for 14 days without salary.
According to the documents, the agent questioned that he did not know that there was a threat against Trump before the rally. The agent told the Secret Service that if he knew about the danger, he would have recommended to take the rally in or sought more resources.
The agent also told the Secret Service that the team assigned to Trump’s protective expansion knew about the dangers and were those that the plans should have changed.
Assistant for Special Agent in charge of Pittsburgh office
The sixth agent who was disciplined was an assistant to the special agent in -charge from the Pittsburgh Field Office.
Assistant had a 24 -year experience with the USSS and admitted that he did not prepare for the Butler rally. Documents show that without preparation, the assistant had no understanding of the security plan for Butler.
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Additionally, the assistant never found with the lead agent and although never walked the site, nor the agent participated in the site briefing or saw the diagram of the site.
As a result, the assistant was suspended for 10 days without payment in April.
