A year later Attempt to murder At an expedition rally at Butler, Pennsylvania, the purpose of the shooter is still not clear. It can live in this way, Sen Rand Paul, a Republican of Kentki said, which also presided over the Senate Committee, which released his finals. Report To expand on Sunday what it is characterized as failures US Secret Service This allowed the effort to happen.
“I think we are not going to know this objective, and I take it to an inscribed price,” Paul told “Face the Nation” model Margaret Brainon, saying that despite his own personal doubt on government transparency in other scenarios, he believes that “he has made his best in the matter”.
The senator said, “I don’t think there is no answer that they are not revealing us.” “I think they don’t know now.”
A 20 -year -old gunman set fire to Mr. Trump during him Butler rally on July 13, 2024Shooting in a crowd of people present from the roof of a nearby building. A bullet grazed Mr. Trump’s ear, but he was not harmed otherwise. Two attendees were seriously injured, and one, Corey Competor, died of injuries.
Guns, Thomas crockeA secret service posted at the event was shot dead by a sniper. Later, the agency faced criticisms and a litter of many formalists Investigations In his practices, many people questioned how the crooks could come so close to successfully committing murder and eventually enabling the attack and accused the secret service.
In its latest report on the matter, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, in which Paul serves as Chairman, accused the secret service of “unforgivable negligence, communication breakdown, systemic weaknesses and limited accountability”.
The report found that the Secret Service during its 2024 presidential campaign to provide additional resources for his safety from Mr. Trump’s safety details “at least 10 requests or left or left. According to the report, some requests included a strong counter drone system, counter assault team and counter snipers.
Paul cited the results of several investigations including one of his committee, which found that the gunman was seen more than 90 minutes before the shooting and operated a drone, hours before.
“Three minutes before the shooting, the crowd is chanting, the man on a roof, the man on a roof,” Paul said. The senator said that the miscreants passed extra time to collect their guns, yet Mr. Trump was not advised to go from the platform where he was giving a campaign speech, some Paul called Paul “incompetent, terrible security”.
However, there is very few direct evidence as to why the miscreants wanted to shoot Mr. Trump, who was the Republican presidential candidate at that time, documents reviewed by CBS News in May Offering some insight In the mind of a gunman.
The documents consisted of email, personal essay and other academic records, which were shown with clear doubts of federal government and corporations along with interest in engineering as a dutiful and intelligent college student.
In an essay, the miscreants praised George Orwell’s “Shooting A. Elephant”, widely considered a metaphor for Western colonialism, “a powerful metaphor warning against adopting imperialist policies.”
He wrote about Mr. Trump at least once in his coursework, criticizing a decision taken during his first term in another essay, which touched the spread of nuclear weapons. The miscreants also wrote about the former President Joe Biden at least once, reviewed a piece of 2021 opinion in the Washington Post, stating that he firmly argued against the position of Biden at free tuition for community college.
Kara Tabachanic and Graham Kates contributed to this report.