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A pair of Secret Service counter snipers, dubbed Hercules 1 and Hercules 2, surveilled the crowd from directly above and behind the stage. He radioed the local command post controlled by Butler County law enforcement and notified them of the kid with the rangefinder. “I can’t believe that the Secret Service hasn’t talked to any of our people,” he said prior to Friday’s reach out. In a different location, the Secret Service and state police set up another command post. New video reveals frustrationNicols, Woods, Young and other Beaver County officers weren’t the only ones to express concerns about the Secret Service planning.

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☆ Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigns over Trump shooting outrage
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee during a hearing at the Rayburn House Office Building on July 22, 2024 in Washington, DC. Kent Nishimura | Getty ImagesU.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned Tuesday following widespread outrage over how her agency failed to prevent the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign rally earlier this month. Kimberly Cheatle, director of the U.S. Secret Service, testified. "The Secret Service has a no-fail mission yet it failed historically on Director Cheatle's watch," said Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the committee's chairman. "At yesterday's Oversight Committee hearing, Director Cheatle instilled no confidence that she has the ability to ensure the Secret Service can meet its protective mission," Comer said.

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☆ Secret Service chief Kimberly Cheatle tells House 'we failed' Trump and others at rally shooting
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Embattled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle told a House panel on Monday that "we failed" to maintain the agency's "solemn mission to protect our nation's leaders" during the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on July 13. "We must learn what happened and I will move heaven and earth to ensure an incident like July 13th does not happen again," said Cheatle, who is testifying under subpoena before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. She said, "The assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on July 13th is the most significant operational failure at the Secret Service in decades and I am keeping him and his family in my thoughts." "I would like to offer my sincerest condolences to the family of Corey Comperatore, a former fire chief and a hero, who was killed in this senseless shooting," Cheatle said. "I would also like to acknowledge those who were injured in Butler, Pennsylvania, David Dutch and James Copenhaven, and I wish them a speedy recovery.

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☆ Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to testify on Trump shooting
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Whitney Wild | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

In the days following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, Cheatle has done no press conferences and very few interviews. “We would have never let him go out there if we thought there was a threat to him,” one source present with Trump told CNN. Cheatle is a nearly three-decade veteran of the Secret Service, serving in various field offices and vice presidential details including then-Vice President Joe Biden’s detail. Cheatle left the Secret Service in 2021 as the Assistant Director of the Office of Protective Operations - a role she held when the Secret Service scrambled to protect then-Vice President Mike Pence from rioters on January 6, 2021. “I’m very sorry to reach this conclusion: I have no confidence in the leadership of the United States Secret Service.

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A key question after an assassination attempt on former President Donald J. Trump a week ago is why the Secret Service excluded from its secured zone a nearby warehouse the gunman used for his assault. But another possible flaw in the Secret Service’s plans for the campaign rally at the farm show grounds in Butler, Pa., is emerging. The protection agency expected the sizable contingent of officers from local law enforcement agencies to contain any threats outside of the secured zone but assigned almost all those officers to work inside it, according to numerous interviews with local law enforcement and municipal officials. More specifically, the local law enforcement officials say that none of them were assigned to safeguard the complex of warehouses just north of the farm show grounds. The gunman was able to use the roof of the warehouse closest to the stage — about 450 feet from the podium — from which to shoot.

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☆ Election Live Updates: Republicans Leave Convention Unified Around Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Jim Rutenberg | Adam Nagourney | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +74 min

And there was great, great sorrow. They’re going to be OK. They’re going to be doing very well. Now he’s going to get on the plane in a little while and he’s going to go back home to his wife. Great, great student at Yale. So many — just so many heroes, so many great, great people.

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☆ Trump Shooting Live Updates: Lawmakers Assail Decision to Let Rally Go Ahead
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

But the Secret Service, the agency charged with protecting Mr. Trump, did not stop him from taking the stage. Eight minutes after Mr. Trump started to speak, Mr. Crooks fired off bullets that left the Republican presidential nominee bloodied and a rally visitor dead. Image Secret Service snipers surveilling the surrounding area before Mr. Trump began to speak. But that created a blind spot, outside the security perimeter but well within rifle range of Mr. Trump. Mr. Crooks also typed in “major depressive disorder” and searched for dates and places for appearances for both Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump.

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☆ Trump speech details assassination attempt: 'I'm not supposed to be here tonight'
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Former President Donald Trump recounted the assassination attempt that nearly killed him during his Republican National Convention acceptance speech in Milwaukee on Thursday night. "I'm not supposed to be here tonight," said a somber Trump, with a bandage covering his right ear, which was nicked by a bullet. Trump also expressed his "gratitude to the American people for your outpouring of love and support following the assassination attempt." Former US First Lady Melania Trump waves as she arrives and US Senator from Ohio and 2024 Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance applauds during the last day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 18, 2024.

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But the Secret Service, the agency charged with protecting Mr. Trump, did not stop him from taking the stage. Image Secret Service snipers surveilling the surrounding area before Mr. Trump began to speak. But that created a blind spot, outside the security perimeter but well within rifle range of Mr. Trump. was able to finally access Mr. Crooks’s cellphones and other electronic devices, agents could see that he had searched for images of Mr. Trump as well as President Biden, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and even F.B.I. Mr. Crooks also had at typed in “major depressive disorder” and searched for dates and places for appearances for both Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump.

CNN —Thomas Matthew Crooks visited the Donald Trump rally location twice, his cell phone contained images of both Trump and President Joe Biden, and the would-be assassin’s search history included dates of the Democratic National Convention as well as future Trump events, three US officials told CNN. A US official briefed on the matter, however, later told CNN that investigators believe the account in his name is fake. Secret Service agents killed Crooks after he opened fire. The Secret Service director later offered to answer the senators’ questions at another time and moved to leave. You owe President Trump answers,” Blackburn said as the Secret Service director continued walking.

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☆ Local officer tried to stop gunman on rooftop, but was unable to engage him, Butler County sheriff says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Pamela Brown | Shoshana Dubnow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A local police officer saw the gunman on the rooftop during former President Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania rally on Saturday but was unable to engage him, Butler County Sheriff Michael T. Slupe told CNN’s Pamela Brown on Sunday. Slupe said that Butler Township officers received calls about a suspicious person outside the perimeter of the rally and went looking to find that person. The initial calls did not indicate the suspicious person had a gun, he said. During the search for the suspicious person, officers with township police discovered that the gunman was on the roof, and one local officer hoisted another to get up to the ledge. Had he known there were any threats of a gunman, Slupe said, he would have done “everything to stop him (Trump) from coming out.”

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☆ What happened at the Trump rally? A look at the assassination attempt from start to finish
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Jeremy Herb | Dakin Andone | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

Forty-three seconds after the first shot was fired, a Secret Service agent said the shooter was down. Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is covered by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. McCormick was whisked into the venue through a private entrance manned by members of the Secret Service. “This is a big crowd — this is a big, big, beautiful crowd,” Trump said at the start of his speech. Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesCrooks had climbed onto the flat rooftop of a light beige, single-story commercial building roughly 150 yards to the north of the rally stage.

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☆ Live Updates: Trump Safe After Failed Assassination Attempt
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Mike Ives | Simon J. Levien | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

Mr. Trump was rushed off the stage, blood visible around his right ear. The Secret Service said its personnel had killed the shooter. Secret Service agents then rushed Mr. Trump off the stage. Mr. Trump had been showing supporters a chart about the number of border crossings just minutes into his speech when the shots rang out. President Biden, in a nationally televised statement, expressed gratitude that Mr. Trump had been swiftly evacuated and said “There’s no place in America for this kind of violence.” He later spoke to Mr. Trump, according to the White House.

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☆ What We Know About the Assassination Attempt Against Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Michael Levenson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A man fired “multiple shots” toward the stage during former President Donald J. Trump’s rally in Butler, Pa., on Saturday at around 6:15 p.m., killing one spectator and critically injuring two others, according to the Secret Service. Mr. Trump was rushed off the stage, blood visible around his right ear. An analysis by The New York Times suggested that the gunman had fired eight shots. The Secret Service said its personnel had killed the shooter. identified the man as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pa.

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☆ Former Secret Service agent says counter snipers at Trump rally should have had '360 degree coverage' of surrounding buildings
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewA former Secret Service agent said counter-snipers at the Pennsylvania rally where a would-be assassin wounded former President Donald Trump should have had "360-degree coverage" of the event and surrounding buildings. "I don't know how many they had, but they usually always look for 360-degree coverage," former Secret Service agent Anthony Cangelosi told Business Insider. AdvertisementCangelosi said the Secret Service would sometimes use "counter-sniper response units," which are posted on the ground and can quickly move into position if they notice a threat. AdvertisementCangelosi said he expects the Secret Service to amp up security at future events moving forward. "The Secret Service is well aware of the fact that they have to be perfect all of the time," Cangelosi said.

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