WASHINGTON: The US Senate has released a scathing report detailing the findings of its investigation into the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump during a campaign rally last year highlighting what it describes as “stunning failures” in the operations and preparedness of the United States Secret Service, calling the incident a serious lapse in presidential security.
The US Senator Rand Paul, Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) released the Committee’s final report on Sunday “regarding what can only be described as stunning failures by the United States Secret Service (USSS) that allowed then-former President Donald Trump to be shot on July 13, 2024, in an attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania.”