{"id":2346095,"date":"2024-09-26T06:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T10:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-assassination-attempt-task-force-to-present-findings-at-first-hearing-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T06:17:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T10:17:53","slug":"trump-assassination-attempt-task-force-to-present-findings-at-first-hearing-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-assassination-attempt-task-force-to-present-findings-at-first-hearing-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump assassination attempt task force to present findings at first hearing &#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\">28<\/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%2Ftrump-assassination-attempt-task-force-to-present-findings-at-first-hearing-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=2346095&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>A House panel investigating attempts on former President Donald Trump&#8217;s life is \u2062scheduled to hold its first public hearing \u2064on Thursday.\u2063 This bipartisan task force, \u2064consisting of\u2062 seven \u2063Republicans and six Democrats, will present findings after\u2063 two months of investigation involving extensive documentation and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-seeks-answers-from-hunter-biden-linked-firm-accused-of-illegal-foreign-lobbying\/\" title=\"GOP wants answers from Hunter Biden-linked firm accused of illegal foreign lobbying\">closed-door interviews<\/a>. Rep. Mike Kelly\u200d (R-PA), the chairman, anticipates the hearing\u2062 will provide an\u2064 update on their progress rather than revealing shocking new information, with planned testimony\u2062 from five\u2064 witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>The scrutiny comes in the wake of a significant security lapse by the \u2062Secret Service during a Trump rally in Butler,\u200b Pennsylvania, on July 13, where a gunman\u2064 opened fire, resulting in \u2063one death and\u200c injuries to\u200b two\u2063 others, while \u200bTrump himself sustained a minor ear injury. One key\u200d witness scheduled to testify is Sgt. \u2062Ed Lenz, who observed communication failures\u2062 between local and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-c-mayor-congress-must-open-a-probe-into-security-failures-at-u-s-capitol\/\" title=\"D.C. Mayor: Congress must open a probe into security failures at U.S. Capitol\">federal law enforcement<\/a> during the incident.  <\/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\">House task force to unveil Trump assassination attempt findings at first hearing<\/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>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/news\/house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>House<\/a> panel investigating the attempts on former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>&lsquo;s life is set to hold its first public hearing on Thursday as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/secret-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Secret Service\">Secret Service<\/a> faces intense congressional scrutiny over the incidents.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The bipartisan panel of seven Republicans and six Democrats will unveil its findings after two months of investigatory activity that included gathering thousands of pages of documents and conducting nearly two dozen closed-door interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), chairman of the task force, told reporters the hearing would be &ldquo;a little bit different than what you&rsquo;ve heard&rdquo; because of the different perspectives he plans to showcase at it.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s going to be shocking or anything like that. I think it&rsquo;s just going to give you more of an update of where we are,&rdquo; Kelly said, pointing to planned testimony from five witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly&rsquo;s remarks come amid intent interest over the Secret Service&rsquo;s historic security failure on July 13, when a gunman was able to climb atop a nearby building and fire shots at a Trump rally crowd in Butler, Pennsylvania. The shooting left one dead, two injured, and Trump with a minor wound to his ear.<\/p>\n<p>Those who plan to testify on Thursday include Sgt. Ed Lenz, who was working as a tactical commander for Butler County during the incident and had a front-row seat to the communication breakdowns that occurred between local and federal law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The Secret Service, for its part, has already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3161400\/acting-secret-service-director-trump-assassination-attempt-mission-failure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>admitted<\/a> to the security lapses, and its former director, Kimberly Cheatle, resigned as a result of them.<\/p>\n<p>Stunning details about the disjointed security setup at the rally also emerged this week in a Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3166070\/takeaways-senate-first-public-report-trump-assassination-attempt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>report<\/a> that showed text messages of law enforcement attempting to relay to each other that there was a suspicious person with a rangefinder roaming around the rally. The texts included photos of the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, well before the shooting began.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The task force also invited as witnesses two local and state police officers, a former Secret Service agent, and Ariel Goldschmidt, the Allegheny County medical examiner.<\/p>\n<p>While the task force is also now investigating a second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/independent-outlet-claims-putin-regime-tried-to-censor-zelensky-interview\/\" title=\"Independent Outlet Claims Putin Regime Tried to Censor Zelensky Interview\">alleged assassination attempt<\/a> on Trump that occurred while the former president was golfing in Florida this month, the hearing is expected to focus mainly on the incident in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing is set to begin at 9:30 a.m.<\/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>House task force to reveal findings on Trump assassination attempts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":2346096,"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-assassination-attempt-secret-service-investigation.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[34943,6701,3679,34511,3634],"class_list":["post-2346095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-assassination-attempt","tag-findings","tag-hearing","tag-task-force","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/trump-assassination-attempt-secret-service-investigation.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346095","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\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2346096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}