CNN —A local law enforcement commissioner revealed during a House Homeland Security hearing on Tuesday stunning new details about the security failures that led to the near assassination of Donald Trump, raising more questions for the embattled US Secret Service.
Paris told lawmakers about the communications between the Secret Service and local law enforcement who initially spotted Thomas Matthew Crooks, the would-be assassin.
“That is my understanding,” Paris said, adding that the officers went searching with other local officers in the area.
State Police then received a call and a text from the ESU about Crooks’ activity that they immediately relayed to Secret Service.
State Police “verbally turned right around and gave it to the Secret Service,” Paris said.
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