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☆ Beware Politicians’ Newfound Love of Crypto - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Eswar Prasad | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Donald Trump is vowing to make the United States “the crypto capital of the planet,” and a new Republican-sponsored Senate bill demands that the Fed invest billions in bitcoin. All of this might suggest that the crypto world is finally putting its scandals and unsavory reputation as the playground of crooks and financial charlatans behind it. Politicians’ newfound love of crypto probably has more to do with a cynical bid for young voter support and Silicon Valley cash than a maturing of a financially perilous set of assets. If anything, crypto today presents even greater risks to its investors and to our financial institutions than it did before. The fact that the Republican Party is publicly celebrating crypto to American voters could only make matters worse.

Persons: Crypto, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Biden, ’, Bitcoin Organizations: Securities and Exchange Commission, Republican, charlatans, Republican Party Locations: United States, bitcoin, Silicon

☆ Justice Dept. Charges Pakistani Man in Alleged Plot to Kill U.S. Leaders
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Glenn Thrush | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Officials said they had no evidence indicating the plot was connected to the shooting in Pennsylvania. Merchant allowed them to disrupt what they characterized as a far-ranging plot that also included stealing computer files from U.S. officials. It also included staging protests against American treatment of Muslim countries. U.S. intelligence agencies were tracking a potential Iranian assassination plot against Mr. Trump in the weeks before the assassination attempt that prompted the Secret Service to enhance security for the former president before his outdoor campaign rally in Butler, Pa. It is not clear if the scheme made public on Tuesday precipitated those moves.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Asif Raza Merchant, Matthew Crooks, Merchant Organizations: U.S . Investigators, Service Locations: Iran, New York, Pennsylvania, Brooklyn, Butler, Pa

"That was unique," Ronald Rowe Jr., the acting director of the Secret Service, said Friday. The Secret Service has faced intense scrutiny in the wake of the incident. The Secret Service initially blamed local law enforcement but later conceded it was ultimately the agency's responsibility to ensure the building was covered. Secret Service personnel were in one command post, with a member of the Pennsylvania State Police, and their local partners were in an entirely separate space. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned last month in the wake of the attack and after a contentious House hearing about the attempt.

Persons: Donald Trump, Ronald Rowe Jr, Lester Holt, Trump, Thomas Crooks, Rowe, Crooks, —, Kimberly Cheatle, countersniper, Butler Organizations: Service, NBC, Secret Service, Pennsylvania State Police, Secret, Crooks Locations: Butler

See Where Countersnipers Could Have Stopped the Trump Rally GunmanWhere countersnipers were stationed — and where they were not — has emerged as a point of contention in assessing security failures at the July 13 assassination attempt at a rally for former President Donald J. Trump. Countersniper locations Locations with better views of gunman Water tower Gunman Countersnipers inside building Secure perimeter Trump N Countersniper locations Locations with better views of gunman Water tower Gunman Countersnipers inside building Secure perimeter Trump N Countersniper locations Locations with better views of gunman Water tower Gunman Countersnipers inside building Secure perimeter Trump N Source: Beaver County E.S.U. There were four locations where countersnipers were stationed near the rally, according to Beaver County planning documents. If countersnipers had been positioned atop the water tower, here is what they would have seen. Trump Gunman Countersnipers were inside this building, but the roof offered a better view Trump Gunman Countersnipers were inside this building, but the roof offered a better view Trump Gunman Countersnipers were inside this building, but the roof offered a better view The New York TimesIn the House hearing, Representative Carlos Gimenez of Florida questioned the decision to place countersnipers inside — a position that provided a limited line of sight, unless the countersnipers were sticking their heads out of the windows.

Persons: countersnipers, Donald J, Charles E, Thomas Matthew Crooks, Crooks, Eli Crane, Christopher Paris, Trump, Kimberly Cheatle, Countersnipers, Carlos Gimenez, Ronald L, Rowe Jr, ” Organizations: Trump Rally, Trump, The New York Times, House, Republican, NAVY, Pennsylvania State Police, Secret Service, New York Times Locations: Beaver, Beaver County, Arizona, Florida

☆ Secret Service’s Tech Flaws Helped Gunman Evade Detection at Trump Rally
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Eric Lipton | David A. Fahrenthold | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After a week of oversights and failures, the officers protecting former President Donald J. Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., still had one last chance to get it right. It began when a local police officer peered over the roof of the AGR International warehouse near the rally grounds and found the suspicious man he and other officers were hunting. Ninety minutes of confusion about Thomas Crooks’s intentions and whereabouts had ended in an instant. “Long gun!” the officer broadcast over the local law enforcement radio system, according to congressional testimony from ‌the Secret Service this week. It was urgent news that should have instantly traveled to a command center shared by the local police and the Secret Service, and then to agents close enough to throw their bodies in front of Mr. Trump.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, peered, Thomas Crooks’s, “ Organizations: Service Locations: Butler, Pa

“We were never asked what we’d seen or where we were from Secret Service. “Before this incident, I would have thought Secret Service is, like bulletproof. The Beaver County officials were part of a multi-jurisdictional team assisting the Secret Service for Trump’s July 13 rally. The Secret Service has not responded to questions for comment from CNN. A federal law enforcement official familiar with the matter said the Secret Service was and has been in touch with the lead for the Butler Emergency Services Unit, which oversaw the Beaver County local law enforcement officers and others that day.

Persons: Robert Rowe, Donald Trump’s, Thomas Matthew Crooks, Nate, Patrick Young, Rowe, ” Young, “, we’d, Crooks, you’re, Young, Trump, Butler, ” Rowe, they’d, ”, Greg Nicol, Bible, Nicol Organizations: CNN, Emergency Services Unit, Service, Secret, Secret Service, Trump’s, Trump, Butler Emergency Services Unit, Beaver Locations: Pennsylvania, Beaver County, Beaver, Butler , Pennsylvania, Butler

Former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage by U.S. Secret Service agents after being grazed by a bullet during a rally on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania. Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesMore than two weeks after Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt, federal investigators are still trying to uncover the motive of the former president’s would-be assassin. Rojek also said that Trump has agreed to sit for a victim interview with the FBI – a routine part of criminal investigations. Crooks, Rojek said, used aliases to make firearms-related purchases online, beginning in the spring of 2023. CNN has reported that text messages between law enforcement before the shooting began suggest that some officers raised Crooks’ presence at the rally more than 90 minutes before he climbed onto a roof and began firing at Trump.

Persons: Donald Trump, Anna Moneymaker, Thomas Matthew Crooks, Kevin Rojek, Rojek, Trump, Crooks, ” Crooks, Republican Sen, Chuck Grassley Organizations: Secret, FBI, Pittsburgh Field Office, Monday, CNN, Trump, Republican, Emergency Unit, The New York Times Locations: Butler , Pennsylvania, Beaver

☆ Trump’s remarks at Bitcoin event were delayed due to security concern, Secret Service says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Evan Perez | Steve Contorno | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump’s remarks to the annual Bitcoin conference on Saturday were delayed for about an hour after two individuals were removed from the premises for “not following proper entry protocols,” the United States Secret Service said. The two individuals were credentialed, the Secret Service said, adding that there was no “protective interest with these individuals.”The agency determined there was “never a threat to the former president,” a Secret Service spokesperson told CNN. The former president ultimately took the stage alone and no indication of a potential security issue was relayed to the crowd. The actions of the Secret Service that day led to bipartisan condemnation of the agency and the resignation of USSS Director Kimberly Cheatle. Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe is set to appear before a Senate panel on Tuesday to discuss how the agency will approve security measures in the wake of the assassination attempt.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, “, ”, Trump, Thomas Matthews Crooks, Kimberly Cheatle, Ronald Rowe Organizations: CNN, United States Secret Service, Service, Secret Service, Trump, New, New York Post, Music City Center Locations: “, New York, Nashville, Butler , Pennsylvania

The acting Secret Service director told senators on Tuesday that the agency failed on July 13 by not having a countersniper focused on the roof where a would-be assassin fired eight shots at former President Donald J. Trump, injuring him and others and killing a rally attendee. While Ronald L. Rowe Jr., the acting director, provided a more complete account of what happened that day than his predecessor did a week ago, he failed to answer a critical question about that day: Who was supposed to be watching that roof? In one of his first actions as acting director, Mr. Rowe said he went to the site of the shooting in Butler, Pa., and specifically to the warehouse roof that the gunman used, which had been unmanned and apparently unwatched. Mr. Rowe said he climbed onto the building and lay on the roof so he could see the direct line that the shooter, later identified as Thomas Crooks of Bethel Park, Pa., had to Mr. Trump.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Ronald L, Rowe Jr, Rowe, Thomas Crooks Locations: Butler, Pa, Bethel Park

CNN —Federal investigators are looking into a YouTube account possibly connected to the would-be Donald Trump assassin in which the user espoused political violence as well as antisemitic and anti-immigration themes, a source familiar with the investigation told CNN. FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate said at a congressional hearing Tuesday that investigators had uncovered a social media account where Thomas Matthew Crooks may have posted those themes but didn’t specify the platform and said they are still working to confirm the connection with the shooter. Officials have repeatedly said that they have struggled to understand the 20-year-old shooter’s motive and that they are combing his online presence for more information. “Something just very recently uncovered that I want to share is a social media account, which is believed to be associated with this with the shooter – in about the 2019, 2020 timeframe,” Abbate said Tuesday. On that account, “there were over 700 comments,” Abbate said, which, “if ultimately attributable to the shooter, appear to reflect antisemitic and anti-immigration themes, to espouse political violence, and are described as extreme in nature.”CNN has reached out to YouTube for comment.

Persons: Donald Trump, Paul Abbate, Thomas Matthew Crooks, ” Abbate Organizations: CNN, Federal, FBI, YouTube

Washington CNN —Secret Service acting Director Ronald Rowe provided new details about the assassination attempt of Donald Trump on Tuesday, delivering forceful testimony at a Senate hearing about the agency’s failures earlier this month in Butler, Pennsylvania. But at the joint hearing of the Judiciary and Homeland Security committees, Rowe also highlighted the missteps of local law enforcement on July 13, when the former president was shot. Moving forward, Rowe told the committees, his agency will avoid assuming local law enforcement agencies are fully capable of fulfilling their role in protecting an event. Rowe told the lawmakers that local law enforcement was positioned in a nearby building and should have had a clear line of sight of Crooks on the roof. Tobra claimed that the account in question was “pro-Biden.”The Gab account has also not been conclusively connected to Crooks.

Persons: Ronald Rowe, Donald Trump, Rowe, Thomas Matthew Crooks, Paul Abbate, Abbate, Kimberly Cheatle, Crooks, “, ” Rowe, Gary Peters, Hawley, Peters, it’s, ” Peters, we’d, ”, ” Crooks, Butler, Trump, shirk, “ I’m, they’d, Joe Biden, Sen, Josh Hawley’s, weren’t, John F, Kennedy, Cruz, ” Hawley, Republican Sen, Ted Cruz, Biden, ” Cruz, ” Abbate, Andrew Tobra, Tobra Organizations: Washington CNN, Service, Judiciary and Homeland Security, CNN, Capitol, Secret, Homeland Security, Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security, Biden, Trump, Missouri Republican, Republican, YouTube Locations: Butler , Pennsylvania, Butler, Missouri, Texas, Dallas, United States

☆ Trump Agrees to Be Interviewed by F.B.I. in Its Investigation Into Gunman
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Glenn Thrush | More About Glenn Thrush | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Former President Donald J. Trump has agreed to be interviewed by the F.B.I. as part of its investigation into the motives of the 20-year-old man who tried to assassinate him during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, bureau officials said on Monday. “We want to get his perspective on what he observed, like any other witness,” Kevin Rojek, the head of the bureau’s Pittsburgh field office, said on a call with reporters. By week’s end, the F.B.I. offered its most definitive explanation yet, saying it was a bullet or a fragment of one, a statement it reiterated on Monday.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, “, ” Kevin Rojek, Mr, Trump’s, Christopher A, Wray, Thomas Crooks, Robert Fico Locations: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Slovakia

CNN —Text messages and radio chatter released Monday show that law enforcement officers lost sight of Donald Trump’s would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, and further illustrate the confused communications around tracking him at the July 13 rally. Twenty minutes later he sent those images to a group chat, the texts show. I lost sight of him.”At 5:38 p.m., a Beaver County sniper sends photos of Crooks to the Beaver, Butler and Washington snipers group chat. “They are asking for a direction of travel,” one person wrote at 5:59 p.m., referring to the command center. The redacted entries reveal the communications as the information is passed up the chain.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Thomas Matthew Crooks, Sen, Chuck Grassley’s, Crooks, “, Charles E, Grassley, ” Organizations: CNN, Trump, ”, Co, Emergency Services Unit, Sen, Grassley Locations: Beaver, Butler, Washington

☆ Trump will meet FBI for victim interview in shooting investigation, agency says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Hannah Rabinowitz | Holmes Lybrand | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Donald Trump has agreed to sit for a victim interview with the FBI, which is investigating this month’s attempted assassination, an agency official said Monday. “The interview of the former president will be consistent with any other victim interview that we do,” Kevin Rojek, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh Field Office, told reporters on a conference call Monday. The FBI wants to “get his perspective on what he observed, just like any other witness to the crime.”“It is a standard victim interview, like we would do for any other victim of crime under any other circumstances,” Rojek said. Crooks was “highly intelligent” and had a growing interest in shooting, Rojek said. But since they accessed the accounts, investigators found that the shooter was using the emails primarily to make online purchases.

Persons: Donald Trump, Kevin Rojek, “, ” Rojek, Thomas Matthew Crooks, Crooks, Rojek, Oswald, Kennedy ”, ”, Bobby Wells, ” Wells Organizations: CNN, FBI, Pittsburgh Field Office, Slovakian, Counterterrorism Division Locations: Washington ,

☆ A SWAT sniper at the Trump shooting said his team wasn't briefed and 'had no communication' with the Secret Service before the attack
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewThe local SWAT team assigned to guard former President Donald Trump's rally on July 13 said it had "no communication" with the Secret Service before a gunman tried to assassinate him. In an interview published by ABC on Sunday, Woods and his team members said the first time they communicated with Secret Service agents on the ground was only after the shooting. But The Washington Post reported on Sunday that Secret Service members on Trump's detail complained they never received the warning from the countersnipers in the AGR building. The aftermath of the assassination attempt, which put Trump within inches of losing his life, has been a reckoning for the Secret Service. "The assassination attempt of former President Trump on July 13th is the most significant operational failure of the Secret Service in decades," Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle said on July 22.

Persons: —, Donald Trump's, Jason Woods, Woods, Trump, countersnipers, Thomas Crooks, Crooks, countersniper, Kimberly Cheatle, Cheatle Organizations: Service, SWAT, Secret Service, Beaver County , Pennsylvania SWAT, ABC, Business, Secret, Glass Research, New York Times, The Times, Washington Post, Trump, FBI Locations: Beaver County , Pennsylvania

☆ Iran using covert influence campaign to undermine Trump candidacy, US intelligence says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Sean Lyngaas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Iran is using covert social media activity and related influence operations in an effort to undercut the candidacy of former President Donald Trump, a US intelligence official said Monday in an updated assessment of threats to the November election. Iran’s preference for a US presidential candidate has not changed since 2020, the ODNI official said. In the 2020 election campaign, Iran “carried out a multi-pronged covert influence campaign intended to undercut former President Trump’s reelection prospects,” according to a declassified US intelligence report. The Russian government regularly denies US allegations of election influence. China “probably does not plan to influence the outcome” of the US presidential election, but US intelligence is monitoring the possibility that China-linked propagandists and influence actors could “denigrate down-ballot candidates,” the updated assessment says.

Persons: Donald Trump, ODNI, Iran “, Trump’s, haven’t, Joe Biden, “, Trump, Qasem Soleimani, Thomas Matthew Crooks, of National Intelligence Avril Haines, ” ODNI, China “, Xi Jinping, Biden Organizations: CNN, National Intelligence, Trump, United Nations, Service, stoke, of National Intelligence, Russian Embassy Locations: Iran, Tehran, United States, Moscow, U.S, Iranian, Pennsylvania, Israel, Gaza, Russia, Russian, Washington ,, China

☆ Trump agrees to victim interview as FBI searches for shooter's motive
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty ImagesFormer President Donald Trump will participate in an FBI victim interview about his attempted assassination at a campaign rally, the agency told reporters Monday. The interview with Trump "will be consistent with any other victim interview that we do," an FBI official said in a press call. Republican candidate Donald Trump was evacuated from the stage at today's rally after what sounded like shots rang out at the event in Pennsylvania, according to AFP. Law enforcement recovered two explosive devices from the trunk of Crooks' car near the site of the Trump rally, and another from his bedroom. On the afternoon of the rally, Crooks flew a drone near the event area for about 11 minutes.

Persons: Donald Trump, Andrew Caballero, Reynolds, Trump, Thomas Matthew Crooks, Crooks, rallygoer Corey Comperatore, Kevin Rojek, Christopher Wray, Rojek, Oswald, Kennedy, Carlos Osorio Organizations: Republican, Convention, AFP, Getty, FBI, Butler, Inc, Bloomberg, U.S, Trump Locations: Milwaukee , Wisconsin, Butler , Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, U.S

☆ Texts from law enforcement show concerns were raised more than 90 minutes before Trump rally shooting, New York Times reports
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-28 | by ( Holmes Lybrand | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Text messages between law enforcement before the assassination attempt against Donald Trump earlier this month suggest that some officers raised the shooter’s presence at the rally more than 90 minutes before he climbed onto a roof and fired eight rounds at the former president. If you wanna notify SS [Secret Service] snipers to look out. It’s also unclear how the Secret Service designated security that day and who managed the communication between local and federal law enforcement. “We were supposed to get a face-to-face briefing with the Secret Service members whenever they arrived, and that never happened,” Jason Woods, a sniper on the team, told ABC News. CNN has reached out to the Secret Service for comment.

Persons: Donald Trump, Republican Sen, Chuck Grassley, Thomas Matthew Crooks, Crooks, “, ”, It’s, ” Jason Woods, Kimberly Cheatle, Ronald Rowe, Paul Abbate Organizations: CNN, Republican, The New York Times, Trump, The Times, ” CNN, Service, Beaver County SWAT, ABC News, Secret Service, FBI Locations: Iowa, Butler , Pennsylvania, Butler

☆ Climate change is gentrifying neighborhoods. In Miami, residents fear high prices — and a lost soul
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +16 min

Part of the building site of the Magic City development in Little Haiti. Among the properties is Sixty Uptown Magic City, billed as a collection of luxury residential units. Plaza Equity Partners, a real estate developer and one of the Magic City partners, did not respond to CNBC's requests for comment. Magic City development site in Little Haiti. Magic City investors also invested $31 million in the Little Haiti Revitalization Trust, created and administered by the City of Miami to support community revitalization in Little Haiti.

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☆ Bullet or Fragment of One Struck Trump’s Ear, F.B.I. Says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Adam Goldman | More About Adam Goldman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

said on Friday that Donald J. Trump had been struck by a “bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces,” providing the most definitive explanation to date about what injured the former president’s ear during an assassination attempt this month. Ambiguity about Mr. Trump’s injury turned into a political firestorm as the former president and his political allies attacked the F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray, for comments he made on Wednesday before Congress. “With respect to former President Trump, there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,” Mr. Wray told the House Judiciary Committee. The shooter, Thomas Crooks, 20, was killed by a Secret Service sniper.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Trump’s, Christopher A, Wray, Mr, Wray’s, Thomas Crooks Organizations: Secret Service Locations: Butler, Pa

Nearly two weeks after the assassination attempt on former President Donald J. Trump, there’s still no official report from the Trump campaign or from state or federal governments about what caused the wound on his right ear. This lack of clarity has left the issue unsettled and fueled speculation online about whether he was hit by a bullet or shrapnel — or perhaps something else. But a detailed analysis of bullet trajectories, footage, photos and audio by The New York Times strongly suggests Mr. Trump was grazed by the first of eight bullets fired by the gunman, Thomas Crooks. Subsequent bullets wounded two rally goers and killed a third. What has helped stoke confusion is that Mr. Trump himself has said he was hit by a bullet, but his campaign has not released any official medical reports, nor has Mr. Trump’s current physician weighed in.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, there’s, Thomas Crooks, Trump’s Organizations: The New York Times, stoke

☆ FBI director says there is 'some question' whether Trump was hit with a bullet or shrapnel
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

"I think, with respect to former President Trump, there's some question about whether or not it's a bullet or shrapnel that, you know, hit his ear," Wray said. Jordan followed up, "It's my understanding that the very first one was the one that hit the president. "As I sit here right now, I don't know the answer to that. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, appointed Wray as FBI director in 2017. AdvertisementAdditionally, Diaczuk told BI that it's most likely that it was, in fact, a bullet that hit Trump's ear instead of shrapnel.

Persons: —, Donald Trump, Christopher Wray, Trump, Wray, Jim Jordan, Thomas Matthew Crooks, Jordan, Steven Cheung, Peter Diaczuk, John Jay, Diaczuk, it's, Ronny Jackson Organizations: Service, Republican, Committee, Business, New, John, John Jay College of Criminal, Rep Locations: Butler , Pennsylvania, Ohio

According to the FBI’s analysis of Thomas Matthew Crooks’ laptop, Crooks searched how far Lee Harvey Oswald was when he shot and killed President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The search was on July 6, the same day the Trump rally was announced. “That’s a search that’s obviously significant in terms of his state of mind,” the FBI director added. The drone was in the air for approximately 11 minutes, and investigators believe Crooks watched a live feed from the drone on his phone. The FBI is investigating the shooting as both an attempted assassination and as a potential act of domestic terrorism.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, John F, Kennedy, Christopher Wray, Thomas Matthew Crooks, Crooks, Lee Harvey Oswald, “, Oswald, ’ ” Wray, Butler, ” Shooter, Trump, Wray, ” Wray, Gun, –, Shooter, Iran Wray, Donald Trump, it’s, Soleimani, ”, Schiff, FBI’s, Adam Schiff, ” Schiff Organizations: CNN, Trump, FBI, ”, Service, Democratic Rep, Republican Locations: Butler , Pennsylvania, Iran, ”, United States

☆ Pennsylvania state police commissioner reveals stunning details about Trump shooting
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Holmes Lybrand | Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

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.

Persons: Donald Trump, Christopher Paris ’, Kimberly Cheatle, Thomas Matthew Crooks, Crooks, Paris, Dan Bishop of, ” Paris, ” Bishop, “, ”, –, Dan Goldman, Trump, State Police “ Organizations: CNN, Homeland, Secret Service . Pennsylvania State Police, Paris, Secret Service, Trump, Crooks, Emergency Services Unit, ESU, Republican, ”, New, New York Democrat, Service, ” Communications, Crooks . State Police, Local, State Police, Secret Locations: Pennsylvania, Butler, Dan Bishop of North Carolina, Paris, New York, “

☆ 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.

Persons: Kimberly Cheatle, Kent Nishimura, Donald Trump, Cheatle, James Comer, Jim Jordan, Donald J, Trump, Tom Williams, Cheatle's, Comer, Thomas Crooks, Crooks, Kweisi Mfume, Thomas Matthew Crooks Organizations: Secret, Getty, NBC, Secret Service, CQ, Inc, Republican, Trump, United States Secret Locations: Rayburn, Washington , DC, Pennsylvania, Butler Township, Cheatle, Ky, Ohio

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