The House Task Force on Donald Trump’s attempted assassination at Butler, Pennsylvania, and West Palm Beach, Florida, has finally released a damning report highlighting the Secret Service’s complacency in protecting the incoming president.
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“The Secret Service agent who spotted Ryan Routh in the bushes outside Trump’s golf course was only five feet away…”
“[The agent] missed him six times from five… pic.twitter.com/aSQVC7GOJP
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It paints a grim picture of how the security service overlooked basic principles, including communication, unity of command, and tactical operations, putting potential assassins leaps and bounds ahead. “The Task Force found that the tragic and shocking events in Butler, Pennsylvania were preventable and should not have happened,” the report stated.
About Trump’s wounding at Butler, the report found systemic planning, execution, and leadership failures that undermined the security service’s effectiveness, putting everyone in grave danger.
“The various failures in planning, execution, and leadership on and before July 13, 2024, and the preexisting conditions that undermined the effectiveness of the human and material assets deployed that day, coalesced to create