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Secret Service Failures Before Trump Rally Shooting Were ‘Preventable,’ Senate Panel Finds

WASHINGTON — Multiple Secret Service failures ahead of the July rally for former President Donald Trump where a gunman opened fire were “foreseeable, preventable, and directly related to the events resulting in the assassination attempt that day,” according to a bipartisan Senate investigation released Wednesday. Similar to the agency’s own internal investigation and an ongoing bipartisan House probe, the interim report from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee found multiple failures on almost every level ahead of the Butler, Pennsylvania shooting, including in planning, communications, security and allocation of resources. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “The consequences of those failures were dire,” said Michigan Sen.

 

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