{"id":2345780,"date":"2024-09-25T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-takeaways-from-senate-report-on-trump-assassination-attempt-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-09-25T13:25:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T17:25:17","slug":"top-takeaways-from-senate-report-on-trump-assassination-attempt-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-takeaways-from-senate-report-on-trump-assassination-attempt-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Top takeaways from Senate report on Trump assassination attempt &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-takeaways-from-senate-report-on-trump-assassination-attempt-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2345780&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Senate&#8217;s first public\u200c report regarding the assassination \u200dattempt on former \u2062President Donald Trump \u200cdetails significant security failures within the Secret Service during the incident on July 13, 2024. The preliminary 94-page report, released by\u2064 the\u2064 Senate Homeland\u200c Security and Governmental Affairs Committee,\u200d indicates that the Secret Service had received credible threat \u200cintelligence prior to the rally, yet many\u2063 officials\u200b were uninformed about the specifics of this threat. <\/p>\n<p>Local law enforcement had raised \u2063concerns about \u200dnot having enough personnel\u2064 to secure the event and communicated these worries to the Secret Service. However, disagreements \u200carose \u200bbetween the\u2062 agencies regarding what information was shared. \u200bAdditionally, key Secret\u200d Service agents were reportedly \u2062unaware of the \u200cgunman\u2019s status until after the shooting occurred, significantly impacting their response. \u2063 <\/p>\n<p>The report highlights that \u2064the Secret\u2063 Service \u2063encountered \u200cfrequent technical \u2063issues \u2062with their communication equipment, which obstructed their ability to coordinate effectively during the incident.\u200b the findings showcase a \u200brange of lapses in planning, communication, and coordination within the Secret Service that could have been \u2062prevented and had dire consequences, underscoring the need for comprehensive reforms to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/death-toll-rises-from-kabul-suicide-bombing-pentagon-walks-back-second-explosion-claim\/\" title=\"Death Toll Rises From Kabul Suicide Bombing; Pentagon Walks Back Second Explosion Claim\">improve security measures<\/a>\u200c for high-profile events.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Top takeaways from the Senate&rsquo;s first public report on the first Trump assassination attempt<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1765936\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Senate<\/a>&rsquo;s first public report on the first assassination attempt on former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> revealed stunning security lapses at the highest levels of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/secret-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Secret Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The preliminary 94-page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000192-26b6-d338-a9da-7eb6556f0000&amp;nname=playbook&amp;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&amp;nrid=849aba7f-f4d5-44d1-8dff-3ca5fb878b65&amp;nlid=630318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>report<\/a>, part of a joint investigation by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, was released Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Every single one of these actions is directly related to a failure in the U.S. Secret Service&rsquo;s planning, communications, intelligence sharing, and law enforcement coordination efforts,&rdquo; Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Gary Peters (D-MI) told reporters Tuesday just before the report was made public. &ldquo;Every single one of those failures was preventable, and the consequences of those failures were dire.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump survived a bullet wound, and one supporter died during an assassination attempt at a July 13 rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the <em>Washington Examiner&rsquo;s<\/em> top takeaways from the first public report to be released since the fateful rally.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Secret Service had &lsquo;credible intelligence&rsquo; of a threat before the rally<\/h2>\n<p>Although FBI officials claimed that Crooks was not known to the agency before the assassination attempt, the report stated that the Secret Service&rsquo;s move to send countersnipers to the July 13 rally was in response to &ldquo;credible intelligence&rdquo; of a threat. The Pennsylvania rally was the first time a Secret Service countersniper team was assigned to a protectee other than the president, vice president, or a presidential candidate who had been formally nominated by his or her party.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was not yet the Republican presidential nominee at the time of the rally, making the agency&rsquo;s move notable.<\/p>\n<p>However, the vast majority of the Secret Service detail, even the highest-ranking officials were not made aware of the threat.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Only two of the USSS personnel the Committee has interviewed were made aware that there was a credible threat related to former President Trump prior to July 13, only one of whom was made aware of the classified information underlying the threat,&rdquo; the report reads.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Former President Donald Trump is surrounded by Secret Service agents as he is helped off the stage at a campaign rally on Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo\/Gene J. Puskar)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Local law enforcement warned Secret Service it didn&rsquo;t have enough manpower to secure the rally<\/h2>\n<p>Two days before the fateful rally, the Butler County Emergency Services Unit&nbsp;conducted a walkthrough of the American Glass Research building, the location where gunman Thomas Crooks later accessed the roof to take shots at Trump. After determining the Pennsylvania State Police didn&rsquo;t have the manpower to secure the facility, Butler&nbsp;County ESU officials relayed their concerns to Secret Service personnel.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At that point, our response was the Butler County ESU would have coverage of the AGR building,&rdquo; a Secret Service site agent told the committee.<\/p>\n<p>Secret Service and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-pledges-orderly-transition-of-power\/\" title=\"President Trump pledges orderly transition of power\">local law enforcement<\/a> officials contradicted each other in the report, with Butler County ESU officials saying they told the Secret Service they did not have the resources to lock down the AGR building and top personnel from the federal agency saying they never heard about the concerns.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gunman&rsquo;s status was allegedly not relayed to top Secret Service personnel<\/h2>\n<p>Many Secret Service personnel learned of Crooks&rsquo;s threat to Trump 27 minutes before he opened fire on Trump. But at least three of the agents in charge of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brazils-jair-bolsonaro-accepts-putin-invite-to-visit-russia\/\" title=\"Brazil&#039;s Jair Bolsonaro Accepts Putin Invite to Visit Russia\">security detail allegedly<\/a> did not learn of his status until after shots were fired.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The USSS Lead Advance Agent, Site Agent, and Site Counterpart all told the Committee they did not receive this information and therefore did not know local law enforcement had identified a suspicious person with a rangefinder &ndash; and that those local officers later lost track of this individual,&rdquo; according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, the committee found that there were &ldquo;no post-standers or patrol assigned to cover the AGR building or roof.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Technical difficulties with vital Secret Service equipment are common<\/h2>\n<p>The nation&rsquo;s top security agency routinely encounters technical failures with critical equipment, according to the report. The report indicates that the problem derailed the Secret Service&rsquo;s ability to transmit information and prevent the assassination attempt on July 13.<\/p>\n<p>The special agent in charge did not have a working radio on him during his &ldquo;entire time at the July 13 rally, according to the report. That was because he gave his radio to the lead advance agent because his own radio was not working.<\/p>\n<p>The SAIC &ldquo;did not &lsquo;hold a post or a sector,&rsquo;&rdquo; according to the report. &ldquo;&hellip; He did claim that he was there to &lsquo;act more in a liaison capacity.&rsquo; However, he did not have any means to communicate on the radio with his USSS counterparts.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Secret Service also encountered problems with its Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems capabilities on the day of the rally. When Crooks used his drone 200 yards from the site and used a rangefinder capable of gauging the distance to Trump less than an hour before he started speaking, the agency was unable to investigate the security breach because its C-UAS system was down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the agent in charge of overseeing the C-UAS system tried to fix it, he had &ldquo;only three months of experience working with that equipment and lacked knowledge about it,&rdquo; according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The agent said he had requested additional C-UAS equipment days before the rally but that his nine requests were denied.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1765936\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1765936\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key insights from the Senate&#8217;s initial report on Trump&#8217;s assassination attempt highlight significant security failures within the Secret Service. The 94-page document, released by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, outlines preventable lapses in planning and communication that had severe consequences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2345781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Trump-survives-shooting-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[41705,33017,41704,34974,32076],"class_list":["post-2345780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-key-takeaways","tag-political-analysis","tag-senate-report","tag-trump-assassination-attempt","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Trump-survives-shooting-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2345781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}