Before Butler shooting, Secret Service denied multiple requests to bolster Trump’s security detail during his 2024 campaign, report says

Senator Rand Paul, the author of the Senate report, will join “Face The Nation with Margaret Brennan” at 10:30 am to discuss the conclusions.

Before the assassination attempt A year ago on President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, the American secret services refused several requests for the details of Mr. Trump’s secret services to strengthen his security apparatus during his presidential campaign in 2024, according to a report by the Senate published on Sunday.

The report of the Senate of Internal Security and Government Security has revealed that the secret services “denied or left at least 10 requests” of Mr. Trump details for “additional resources”, including a system of improved backlest drones, the staff of the counter-assault team and the counter-snipers.

On July 13, 2024, a 20 -year -old shooter opened fire on Mr. Trump on the roof of a nearby building during a campaign rally in Butler. The president was grazed by the ear by one of the bullets, while a rallygor was killed and two others were seriously injured during the shooting. The shooter, Thomas Crooks, was shot by a sniper from the secret services. The incident sparked several surveys in the Practices and Protocols of the Secret Service.

“This report reveals a disturbing scheme of communication and negligence failures which led to a preventable tragedy,” wrote Senator Rand Paul, a republican Kentucky and the president of the Senate of internal security, in the report. “What happened was inexcusable and the consequences imposed for failures so far do not reflect the seriousness of the situation.”

The report accuses the director of services of the time, Kimberly Cheatle, of testifying “falsely” to the Congress that “no asset requests from the USSS has been refused for the Butler rally”. Cheatle resigned almost a year ago after testifying to the congress.

Richard Giuditta Jr., chief lawyer of the secret service, told the committee that there was no evidence that “the political animus” was at the origin of the refusals, said the report.

More specifically concerning the Butler rally, the committee did not find that there was an “explicit denial” for improved counter-ground systems. However, in an interview transcribed to the Committee, an agent of counter-unique plane of the secret service allegedly alleged that such a request had been refused by telephone by an advanced agent of the technical security division of the secret services, the report said.

This refusal was corroborated by the documents of the secret service, according to the report.

This would seem to contradict the previous testimony of the acting director of the then secret service, Ronald Rowe, who had replaced Cheatle in the position. During controversy on July 30, 2024, hearing Before the Senate committees for internal security and judiciary, Rowe said that “all the assets requested were approved” for the Butler rally.

Rowe, however, also testified concerning the requests for assets other than Butler: “There are times when the assets were not available and could not be filled, and these gaps were equipped with state and local tactical and local tactical goods.”

In addition, the new report revealed that before the butler’s shooting, the secret services had no official processes to submit resource requests, and “therefore there was no standard response concerning approvals or refusals of these requests from the USSS headquarters”.

The documents obtained by the Committee “revealed a model of certain categories of requests being neither obvious, not satisfied or obliged to be supplemented by local police or other federal agencies,” said the report.

In a statement, the director of secret services, Sean Curran, said that the agency “seriously examined our operations and implemented substantial reforms to face the failures that have occurred that day”.

A “structured lack of communication was probably the greatest contributor to failures” of Butler’s secret services, according to the report, echoing a 180 -page previous house report Released last December on the assassination attempt which noted that there were “fragmented communications” at Butler because local police and secret services had distinct command posts.

According to the conclusions of the senatorial committee, the secret service agent responsible for directing communications at Butler – a role known as the “security agent” – was the special agent in charge of the Buffalo des Service Secrets, New York, Office Field Office, and received the role of Butler on July 11, 2024, only two days before the rally.

This agent “only discovered the existence of the second command post” after hearing the conversations between a police officer from the Pennsylvania State who was stationed in the command post of the secret services and other charges of the order.

“By his own admission, he has never had direct contact with the local police throughout the day, and that his only method of communication with them was through the PSP officer in the USSS security room,” said the report of the security agent.

The report also addressed the announcement this week that six members of the secret service staff were suspended Following an internal investigation into the butler’s shooting response. The six staff members were issued by suspensions without salary or services ranging from 10 to 42 days.

However, the Senate Committee’s investigation revealed that the Butler’s security room was not one of the disciplined persons, even if the written report: “according to the testimonies and the documents received by the Committee”, he “did not release critical information which he obtained from” Le Pennsylvania State Police Officer stationed in the order of command of the secret services “concerning a person suspect of the space of the space” Agents of secret services “which could remove” space for space “for service agents”. “”

In a statement provided to CBS News, the director of American secret services, Sean Curran, said that his agency had received the report “and will continue to work in cooperation with the Committee while we are moving on our mission.”

“After the events of July 13, the secret services seriously examined our operations and implemented substantial reforms to face the failures that occurred that day,” said Curran. “The secret services appreciate the continuous support of President Trump, the Congress and our federal and local partners who have helped to provide crucial resources to support the agency’s efforts.”

Earlier this week, in the meantime, CBS News was taken inside The James J. Rowley training center for secret services in Laurel, Maryland, to see agency safety improvements in response to Butler, which include a fleet of military quality drones and a mobile command post system.

Laura Geller, Nicole Sganga, Melissa Quinn and Jacob Rosen contributed to this report.