The U.S. Secret Service’s multiple bumbling failures in Butler, Pennsylvania last summer have earned six agents suspensions without pay nearly a year later.
Secret Service leaders meddled in an independent government investigation of the July 13 assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump and are still not following many basic agency security protocols.
It apparently didn’t occur to anyone at the Justice Department that publicizing Routh’s letter encouraging more assassination attempts including an offer to pay a “successful” assassin might be a problem.
Local law enforcement officials have said in interviews with The Times that Secret Service agents who were charged with planning for the rally never specified where they should be located, leaving them to make their own decisions.
DeSantis announced on social media Monday that “The State of Florida will be conducting its own investigation regarding the attempted assassination at Trump International Golf Club.”
[Ryan Wesley] Routh faced criminal charges in North Carolina for two separate incidents, in April and December 2002. According to the
President Trump had his birdie putt interrupted by gunfire at his West Palm Beach Florida golf coure Sunday afternoon. A
Kevin Rojek, head of the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office, told reporters during a briefing that investigators “believe [Crooks] engaged in detailed attack planning.” Rojek said Crooks became “hyper-focused” on Trump’s campaign rally in Butler once it was announced.
While most Americans were still desperately trying to figure out how the failed assassination attempt on President Donald Trump came
It takes a special kind of obtuse government employee thinking to wait until after you’ve been publicly pilloried by politicians
