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BREAKING: Secret Service Whistleblowers Provide Info Following Trump Attack

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Five days following the failed assassination plot against former President Donald Trump, the reason for the attack still eludes an adequate explanation. The U.S. Secret Service has been scrutinized for its management of security during the incident, and on Thursday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) declared that whistleblowers have emerged, disclosing major security failures at Trump’s campaign event in Butler, Pa.

The Secret Service was reportedly understaffed due to the NATO summit and First Lady Jill Biden’s event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, resulting in a lack of resources for Trump’s event, according those whistleblowers. It has been reported that these organizations failed to identify multiple weaknesses prior to and throughout the event, which enabled the would-be assassin to fire upon the former president, fatally wound a participant, and severely harm two others.



Jordan said he has written a letter to the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Christopher Wray, requesting that he is completely ready to respond to the Committee’s inquiries regarding the failed assassination attempt and the FBI’s probe during his testimony on Wednesday, July 24.

The letter, addressed to Director Wray, stated, “Information provided to this Committee raises serious questions about the thoroughness of the security planning by local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies in support of President Trump’s campaign rally. Law enforcement overlooked a number of vulnerabilities prior to and during the event in Butler, Pennsylvania, allowing an assassin to shoot a President, murder an attendee, and critically wound two others. This tragedy demands a full and transparent investigation.”

Jordan’s note contains a number of important inquiries that Wray is expected to address, including the number of FBI staff assigned to the probe, collaboration with various organizations, the safety of structures near the incident, and detailed schedules concerning the identification of the assailant and the police’s reaction. The Committee asked the FBI to provide more information on the shooter’s activities, the scope of the investigation, resource constraints, communication breakdowns between law enforcement entities, and the actions taken by the Secret Service to protect Trump once the threat was known. The FBI has until July 23 to provide the requested materials.

A new report has shed even more disturbing light on the assassination attempt. The report suggests that security identified Thomas Crooks, a 20-year-old suspect, as a person of interest at the rally well before he opened fire on the former president.

“Earlier in the day, he went through Secret Service security WITH his rangefinder and scoped out the snipers, who spotted him and said they need to keep an eye on him,” News Busters journalist Curtis Houck wrote in a post on X. “He went into work at a nursing home and asked off for Saturday, but told coworkers he’d see them on Sunday. Detonators for the explosives in his car were found on him on the roof with three, fully loaded magazines of nearly 100 rounds and a bulletproof vest.” Houck shared a video of CNN’s John Miller summarizing what he had learned about Crooks’ activities before the shots were fired.

“When he got to the fairgrounds where this rally was being held for Donald Trump, the first thing that puts him on the radar of security people is … near the magnetometer area where they’re screening people in, he’s carrying in his hand a rangefinder, it’s a device that looks like a small pair of binoculars, but it’s used by shooters to measure the distance when they’re setting up a long-distance shot,” Miller said.

“Because he didn’t have a weapon, that would not have prevented him from going through security, but they did flag ‘what does he have this in his hand for?’” Miller added. “At that point, they told people to keep an eye on this guy, but then he leaves the secure area, the staging area, and he doesn’t turn up again for some time until the crowd says there’s a guy crawling up the roof, and it appears he has a rifle.”

Miller described an “eerie moment” when Crooks took the rangefinder and looked through it at the counter-sniper positions. “And one of the counter-sniper positions is looking at him through the scope. At this point, there’s not a gun in the picture, as I understand it, but they’re saying, ‘He’s looking at us looking at him,’” Miller said.

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