The investigation found the Secret Service and other security agencies had no plan for coverage of the building where the shooter climbed up to fire the shots.
US Secret Service agents respond after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was fired upon at a campaign rally in July. .A bipartisan Senate investigation into the assassination attempt against former president Donald Trump has found it was "foreseeable and preventable".
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 Pennsylvania shooting, including in planning, communications, security and allocation of resources.
The panel also interviewed a Secret Service counter-sniper who said that they saw officers with their guns drawn running toward the building where the shooter was perched, but the person said they did not think to notify anyone to get Trump off the stage. Each investigation has found new details that reflect a massive breakdown in the former president’s security, and politicians say there is much more they want to find out as they try to prevent it from happening again.
Advance agents interviewed by the committee said "that planning and security decisions were made jointly, with no specific individual responsible for approval," the report said. "This was a failure on the part of the United States Secret Service. It’s important that we hold ourselves to account for the failures of July 13th and that we use the lessons learned to make sure that we do not have another failure like this again," said Ronald Rowe Jr., the agency’s acting director after the report was released.
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