The Secret Service ignored more than 100 alerts about the attack that Donald Trump would suffer in 2024
A report presented by the OIG indicates that the Secret Service ignored more than a hundred warnings about the attack that Donald Trump would suffer in 2024
According to a report released by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Secret Service ignored more than a hundred alerts related to the attack that Donald Trump would suffer during a campaign rally held in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 2024.
Through a 64-page report, it is confirmed that, during the event on July 13, 2024, when a bullet pierced part of the New York tycoon's right ear, several security failures were recorded that allowed Thomas Matthew Crooks to observe his victim on stage and shoot him up to eight times from the top of a building where he had been undetected by the authorities for hours.
Although the shooter, who was only 20 years old, had a rangefinder and a long gun, he did not act in time and was allowed to wound two civilians in addition to Trump.
However, the most terrible thing is that one of Crooks' shots took the life of another person while listening to a speech by the conservative politician.
“The general lack of Secret Service policies and procedures, along with limited intelligence information sharing and poor collaboration and communication with protected personnel and state and local law enforcement, created the conditions that led to missed opportunities to prevent and detect attempted assassination,” the text indicates.
Another complicated situation to assimilate is that the Secret Service and local law enforcement operated separately and within 257 yards of each other, with intermittent radio connectivity.
Perhaps this is the reason why the agents assigned that afternoon also did not detect the flight of the drone that Crooks used to previously observe the place where Trump would share his campaign message.
The electronic device maneuver would have lasted about nine minutes, traveling 471 yards at an altitude of 102 feet, but at that time the Secret Service's anti-drone system was inexplicably turned off.
The report corroborates that Crooks had a clear view of the podium where Trump stood to deliver his speech at a distance of only 155 yards from the person who tried to take his life.