{"id":2357568,"date":"2024-10-21T14:23:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T18:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-task-force-releases-report-on-trump-assassination-attempt-finds-stunning-security-failures\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T14:25:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T18:25:18","slug":"house-task-force-releases-report-on-trump-assassination-attempt-finds-stunning-security-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-task-force-releases-report-on-trump-assassination-attempt-finds-stunning-security-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"House Task Force Releases Report on Trump Assassination Attempt, Finds &#8216;Stunning Security Failures&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fhouse-task-force-releases-report-on-trump-assassination-attempt-finds-stunning-security-failures%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=2357568&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 \u200crecent House task \u2063force report has\u2063 delivered \u200da scathing critique of the U.S. Secret Service, highlighting &#8220;stunning security failures&#8221; that occurred during a rally for former President Donald Trump on July 13. The incident, which involved a\u2063 shooting that wounded Trump and two others while resulting in one fatality, raised serious concerns about the planning and coordination\u200c between the Secret Service and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-calls-for-investigation-into-biden-over-bribery-allegations\/\" title=\"RFK Jr. urges probe into Biden for bribery claims.\">law\u200c enforcement agencies<\/a>.\u200b <\/p>\n<p>The\u2062 report indicated that there was a lack \u200dof clear guidance from the Secret Service \u200cregarding security measures outside the event&#8217;s secure perimeter. It revealed \u2064that\u2064 warning signs had been overlooked, including prior communications from local police about a\u200c suspicious individual, Thomas Matthew Crooks, who ultimately fired shots from a rooftop. The investigation noted a failure in the lines of communication, \u2063which\u2063 contributed to \u200cthe inability to prevent the attack. <\/p>\n<p>The task force emphasized that the tragic \u200devents could \u200chave \u200dbeen avoided, with\u2063 evidence suggesting that <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> did recognize potential threats but \u2064could not effectively relay this \u200binformation to the Secret\u200d Service. \u200cThe report has drawn further\u2062 scrutiny on\u200b the Secret Service, calling for potential leadership\u2064 changes\u2062 and highlighting systemic flaws within the agency&#8217;s operations. this report\u200d underscores significant security vulnerabilities that occurred \u2062during a high-profile event attended\u2064 by a former president, raising serious\u200c questions about the adequacy of protective\u2063 measures employed.  <\/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\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?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<section> <script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>A House task force report raked the Secret Service over the coals for what it called &ldquo;stunning security failures&rdquo; at the July 13 rally in which former President Donald Trump was shot.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was wounded in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rally-remember-5-iconic-moments-trumps-historic-return-butler-shooting-site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Butler, Pennsylvania<\/a>, rally after being hit by one of the eight shots fired by Thomas Matthew Crooks. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-two-men-shot-pennsylvania-assassination-attempt-trump-say-secret-service-failed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two other people<\/a> were wounded, and one man at the rally was killed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the preliminary <a href=\"https:\/\/taskforce.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/july13taskforce.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/task-force-interim-staff-report-10.21.2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a>, &ldquo;The information obtained during the first phase of the Task Force&rsquo;s investigation clearly shows a lack of planning and coordination between the Secret Service and its law enforcement partners before the rally.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&lsquo;TRAGIC AND SHOCKING&rsquo;: Explosive report shatters the Secret Service narrative on the Trump assassination attempt. More details from the bombshell findings. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IZnZHYuwba\">https:\/\/t.co\/IZnZHYuwba<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QY7f3A2R74\">pic.twitter.com\/QY7f3A2R74<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1848393906754400449?\">October 21, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Task Force has obtained information from an array of sources,&rdquo; the report said. The bipartisan task force consists of seven Republicans and six Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-two-men-shot-pennsylvania-assassination-attempt-trump-say-secret-service-failed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Secret Service<\/a>, identified in the report as USSS, &ldquo;did not give clear guidance to the relevant state and local agencies about managing areas outside the secure event perimeter, and there was no joint meeting on the day of the rally between USSS and all state and local law enforcement agencies assisting USSS.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The information obtained by the Task Force also shows areas outside the secure perimeter were recognized as security risks,&rdquo; the report said, noting that nothing was done to prevent access to the American Glass Research building Crooks used.<\/p>\n<p>The report said, even after the event, there was &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/secret-service-effectively-forced-trump-campaign-cancel-event-according-disputed-whistleblower-claim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disagreement and confusion<\/a> among the entities involved in planning for the July 13 event as to who was responsible for ensuring the AGR complex was secure.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The report cited Drew Blasko, a patrolman with the Butler Township Police Department, as having told the Secret Service on July 11 that &ldquo;his team did not have the manpower to post officers around the AGR property, and that he asked the Secret Service for additional officers to be posted there. According to Patrolman Blasko, the Secret Service said, &lsquo;They would take care of it.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&lsquo;Lawmakers in their report focus on &ldquo;the fragmented lines of communication and unclear chains of command&rdquo; between Secret Service and Pennsylvania state and local police but place the majority of the blame on the Secret Service for the security breakdown. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D8pgXHXVXT\">https:\/\/t.co\/D8pgXHXVXT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; @bohemianglytz #independent (@bohemianglytz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bohemianglytz\/status\/1848383732920508852?\">October 21, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The report said Crooks capitalized on security failures, saying &ldquo;as Crooks&rsquo; behavior became increasingly suspicious, fragmented lines of communication allowed Crooks to evade law enforcement &hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Put simply, the evidence obtained by the Task Force to date shows the tragic and shocking events of July 13 were preventable and should not have happened,&rdquo; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The report noted that local law enforcement played a significant role in spotting Crooks.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Moments before Crooks fired, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-task-force-report-details-mistakes-leading-up-to-trump-assassination-attempt-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"House task force report details mistakes leading up to Trump assassination attempt - Washington Examiner\">local law enforcement officer radioed<\/a> that Crooks was on the roof with a gun. There is no evidence, to date, that this information reached the former President&rsquo;s detail, and he remained on stage,&rdquo; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Although a Secret Service sniper killed Crooks, the report said local law enforcement managed a shot at him, &ldquo;which may have caused Crooks to stop firing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The report is not the first to criticize the Secret Service.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/4944531-house-task-force-trump-assassination-attempt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill<\/a>, last week, an <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/4938363-secret-service-trump-assassination-attempt-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">independent review<\/a> said that day&rsquo;s failures &ldquo;reveal deep flaws&rdquo; in the Secret Service and called for new leadership to be brought in from outside of the agency.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee last month said Secret Service agents had several chances to stop Crooks.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\">  <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> <label>* Name<\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> <\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> <label>* <\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> <\/div>\n<p> <label>* Message<\/label> <br \/> <textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\">  <\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Trump was injured in Butler, Pennsylvania, after being struck by one of eight shots fired by Thomas Matthew Crooks. The report highlighted a lack of planning and coordination between the Secret Service and local law enforcement prior to the event. It noted that areas outside the secure perimeter were recognized as security risks but remained unprotected. Local police had warned about Crooks&#8217; suspicious behavior before he opened fire, yet this information did not reach Trump&#8217;s security detail in time. The report concluded that these tragic events were preventable and pointed to significant communication issues within the Secret Service as a major factor in their failure to ensure safety at the rally<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2357569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Butler-Pennsylvania.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34943,39576,3819,35099,3634],"class_list":["post-2357568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-assassination-attempt","tag-house-task-force","tag-report","tag-security-failures","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Butler-Pennsylvania.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357568","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2357568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2357569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}